FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS WORKSHEET Exhibit III-1 Five Forces Affecting Industry Structure ENTRY BARRIERS Economies of scale Proprietary product differences Brand identity Switching costs Capital requirements Access to distribution Absolute cost advantages Proprietary learning curve Access to necessary inputs Proprietary low-cost product design Government policy and international treaties Expected retaliation RIVALRY DETERMINANTS Industry Growth Fixed (or storage) costs/value-added Intermittent overcapacity
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1. Bibliography of Michael E Porter Michael E. Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor‚ based at Harvard Business School. A University professorship is the highest professional recognition that can be given to a Harvard faculty member. Professor Porter is the fourth faculty member in Harvard Business School history to earn this distinction‚ and is one of about 15 current University Professors at Harvard. Professor Porter is a leading authority on competitive strategy and the
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Describe the barriers of effective communication. Introduction: If an individual (Sender) sends a message and the receiver interprets it in the same way as the sender had intended to express‚the process of communication is said to be complete. But it is not always so. Certain barriers in communication affect the clarity‚ accuracy and effectiveness of the message. The barriers could be related to the communication system‚ mechanical devices being used‚ language or symbols being used
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monopoly. Monopoly is a firm that produces a good for which there are no close substitutes in a market that other firms are prevented from entering because of a barrier to entry. A monopoly has more market power than any other type of firm. A market consisting of a large number of firms selling a differentiated product with low barriers to entry is called monopolistic competition. Monopoly and monopolistic competition are very different market structures‚ but firms in both of these market structures
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Hilton Hotels‚ Marriott International‚ Inc.‚ Global Hyatt Corporation‚ and MGM Mirage. They have built a brand image and equity that intensifies rivalry in the industry. Since all of the actors in the hotel industry made huge investments‚ their exit barrier is high that adds more fuel to rivalry in the hotel industry. Threat of Substitutes: In the overall hotel substitutes category‚ there are several substitutes for Starwoods such as timeshares‚ staying at friends and
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family run unorganized players Industry rivalry is intense but not cutthroat Rivalry Intense because of low switching costs‚ low levels of product differentiation‚ perishability of products diversity of rivals Rivalry is not cut throat since exit barriers are not high‚ fixed costs are not high‚ market growth is good Porter’s Five Forces: Travel Agency Porter’s Five Forces: Travel Agency : Threat of Substitutes: Low Threat of Substitutes‚ as travel moves up the list of household priorities Lot
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Porters 5 Forces: Suppliers The bargaining power of suppliers‚ one of Porter‟s Five Forces‚ can have a significant effect on an organization. Suppliers hold power over a firm when they increase prices and reduce the quality of their product and the firm cannot use their own pricing to recover these changes in costs. Switching costs is the “negative costs that a consumer incurs as a result of changing suppliers‚ brands‚ or products”. Switching costs can represent a variety of things: time and
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1. A Potential entrants are more likely to be deterred from actually entering an industry when A) incumbent firms have previously been aggressive in defending their market positions against entry. B) incumbent firms are complacent. C) buyers are not particularly price sensitive and the industry already contains a dozen or more rivals. D) the relative cost positions of incumbent firms are about the same‚ such that no one incumbent has a meaningful cost advantage. E) buyer switching
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Intrapersonal‚ interpersonal‚ semantic‚ and physical barriers are more likely to occur in electronic communication because of different interpretations‚ absence of non-verbal behaviour or cues‚ and access to technological resources. This essay will examine all four communication barriers and discuss how different people’s experiences‚ expectations and attitudes affect the way electronic communication is composed and interpreted. It will look at barriers caused by demographics‚ and consider how the use
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Communication has been around for centuries. Cave men communicated with one another by their motions or the occasional “arg.” Animals communicate through growls or shrieks. We as humans communicate in a more revolutionized way. We have a form of language that can be interpreted in numerous ways. This paper will cover the communication process of humans‚ mostly Criminal Justice professionals‚ and how effective communication can be achieved. The Process of Communication and its Components. The
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