BAE Business Report On Qantas Student name: Wenhui YIN (Phoebe) Student number: 34987 Class: BAE12 Date of submission: 21 January 2015 Word count: 1083 Table of contents Executive summary: 1 1 Introduction 2 2 Evaluation of ethical performance 2 2.1 Carbon- credit program 2 2.2 Aviation Fuel Study 3 3 Evaluation of financial performance 5 3.1 Profitability 5 4 Conclusion and Recommendations 6 Reference 8 Executive summary: The aim of this report is to provide reasonable advice to the client
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Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 21: 1105–1121 (2000) DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES: WHAT ARE THEY? KATHLEEN M. EISENHARDT* and JEFFREY A. MARTIN Department of Management Science and Engineering‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ California‚ U.S.A. This paper focuses on dynamic capabilities and‚ more generally‚ the resource-based view of the firm. We argue that dynamic capabilities are a set of specific and identifiable processes such as product development‚ strategic decision making‚ and
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Qantas Data Book 2012 DISCLAIMER The information contained in this investor Data Book is intended to be a general summary of Qantas Airways Limited (Qantas/Qantas Group) and its activities as at 17 October 2012 or otherwise the date specified in the relevant information and does not purport to be complete in any respect. The information in this document is not advice about shares in Qantas (or any other financial product)‚ nor is it intended to influence‚ or be relied upon by‚ any person in
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“An internal capacity for leveraging resources and competences is a prerequisite for creating competitive advantage. Discuss‚ with references to theory and real world organization of your choice”. Strategic management is a multi faced and vast area of study with many theorists presenting differing views as to what is crucial to the successful formulation of strategy. This essay will present an explanation of the internal capacity of leveraging resources and competences and show how they are creating
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What are capabilities? What must firms do to create capabilities? Capability is a capacity for a set of resources to integratively perform a stretch task. It represents the identity of the firm as perceived by both its employees and customers. It is the firm’s ability to perform better than competitors using a distinctive and difficult to replicate set of business attributes. The organization’s capability is comprised of three core assets – physical capital‚ including all tangible assets; technology
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Qantas Case Study Qantas is an Australian icon. Australia’s national airline has enjoyed a long history as a profitable business‚ a respected brand name and has a deserved reputation for safe and reliable travel. For a small country of 22 million people‚ the Australian domestic airline industry is significant. The high level of urbanization of Australia’s population‚ the long distances between major urban centres‚ the lack of high speed trains and the importance of Australia’s tourism industry
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Organisational structure Qantas Airways Limited ’s core business is passenger transport‚ air freight services‚ sale of holiday tours and associated support activities including catering‚ information technology‚ group handing and engineering and maintenance (Qantas n.d.). As a consequence of the revised structure that commenced in December 2013‚ the Qantas Groups split its international and domestic operations into two separate corporate entities (Qantas 2014a). This has meant that Qantas is now considered
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INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY PJ McGinnis‚ Sir Wilmot‚ Hudson Fysh‚ Sir Fergus McMaster and W Arthur Baird initiated Qantas. Story of Qantas started in March 1919‚ when an antecedent Australian Flying Corps officers W Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinnis perceived an offer of a £10‚000 ($20‚000) prize proposed for acceptance by the Federal Government for the first Australians to fly in a period of 30 days from England to Australia. Fergus McMaster who was a wealthy ranch owner and McGinnis struck up
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airlines industry consist of two major players such as Qantas Airways and Virgin Blue‚ and three minor players such as Regional Express‚ Skywest and Tiger Airways (IBISWorld‚ 2010). 2.0 External Analysis External analysis is used to analyze the external environment of an organization to identify any threats and opportunities‚ which is part of SWOT (Hill‚ Jones Galvin & Haidar‚ 2007). This part of the essay will be looking at what challenges Qantas faces in the 21st century. 2.1 Macro Environmental
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five forces that impacts Qantas‚ its stakeholders and strategies in the domestic market. We will look at strength weakness of the Qantas and then also external threats ad opportunities that can affect the company. Then we would look at Porter’s five forces which are the competitors‚ suppliers‚ consumers‚ product substitutes and new entrant. (Fleisher‚ C. and Bensoussan‚ B.‚ 2007). To undertake the case study‚ primary/qualitative (Qantas Web site) and secondary/quantitative
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