PESTEL analysis Political/Legal Environment Over the past several years‚ there has seen a plethora of patent lawsuits within the smartphone industry. In the highlycompetitive environment‚ manufacturers of handsets have been aggressive in protecting their intellectual properties by suingcompetitors by claiming infringements on patents. For example‚ in March 2010‚ Apple sued HTC for allegedly infringing on20 Apple patents (Weil‚ 2010). Apple also sued Nokia in 2010 for similar patent infringements("Patent
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Ryanair is considered to be the largest low fares airline in Europe. They have over 800 low fare routes across 26 different countries‚ so this gives you an indication as to the scale of this employer. Despite being a low budget airline‚ they are anything but budgeted when it comes to their staff. With real incentives and genuine opportunities for career progression‚ staff at Ryanair are valued for the hard work they do in helping to run one of the most successful budget airlines in the world. With
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COMPANY PROFILE Ryanair Holdings (Ryanair or ‘the company’) operates low fare scheduled passenger airline serving short haul‚ point to point routes between Ireland‚ the UK‚ and Continental Europe‚ as well as Morocco. It is headquartered in Dublin‚ Ireland and employs about 8‚560 people. The company recorded revenues of E3‚629.5 million ($4‚796.7 million) during the financial year ended March 2011 (FY2011)‚ an increase of 21.5% over FY2010.The operating profit of the company was E488.2 million ($645
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Australia. Australian Journal of Management 25(2)‚ 119-143 Slater‚ S Webster‚ F. E. Jr.‚ (1988) Rediscovering the marketing concept. Business Horizons 31 (May-June)‚ 29-39 Wrenn‚ B Ryanair‚ Available at: http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/ Quinn‚ Eamonn.(2003) No competitors for Ryanair in Dublin‚ says Cassani Milmo‚ D.‚ 2006‚ Ryanair - the world’s least favourite airline‚ The Guardian‚ Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0‚‚1931403‚00.html
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Ryanair’s average flight represents just 442 miles which is the equivalent of average length of passenger haul. This is a relatively small number that can be explained by the fact that Ryanair does not offer transatlantic flights‚ but focuses exclusively on routes between Ireland‚ the UK and Continental Europe. If one divides the number of employees at period end by the employees per aircraft served at period end one receives the number of airplanes‚ in this case 41‚38 airplanes. Furthermore one
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Business Strategy Prof. Sebastian Raisch Mr. Jonathan Schad MBA Session 2014 HEC University of Geneva RYANAIR- The Low Fares Airline: Whither Now? Student: Roi Lavi May 5th 2014 1. Evaluation of the Competitive Situation in the Industry1: 1/5 The Bargaining Power of Low-Fare flight ticket buyer is LOW-MEDIUM: The low cost airline company’s buyers are mostly individual passengers that book 99% of tickets by Internet‚ without agents or other third parties and thus there is no dominant
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Case 5 - A Dogfight over Europe: Ryanair Key Issue: The key issue in this case is that Ryanair’s competitive advantage is based on offering customers an easy-to-imitate low price. While it may be operationally effective‚ they have no strategic positioning. Supporting Arguments: Ryanair’s low prices were not a strategy to gain market share. They were simply out of necessity to stay afloat as their sales plummeted. However‚ as their prices dropped to increase sales‚ they did manage to generate
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plays very crucial role. In this external environment there are several forces which affects company’s decision making policies very deeply and political‚ economic‚ social‚ technological‚ environmental and legal are those main forces (according to the pestel model). So we will analyse how these forces affects working and decision making of Maruti Suzuki. POLITICAL FACTORS: - As Maruti Suzuki is an automobile company various govt. policies regarding export duties‚ taxes‚ labour laws‚ tariffs affects
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Belgium PESTEL Political Belgium is a politically stable country. The government type of Belgium is parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy. Belgium achieved independence in October 4‚ 1830. The constitution was drafted in 1830‚ approved by congress and was enforced in 1831. In 1993‚ Belgian government consolidated a version of constitution by incorporating all previous versions in 1993. King Albert II is the chief of the state. Head of the government is the Prime minister
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INTRODUCTION This critical review of the article of Briner‚ B and Conway‚ N (2006) "Protecting the psychological contract" will briefly consider the problem formulation‚ the place of the theory‚ methodology‚ Standard of analysis and presentation. The writers show that an employment contract is vital in the relationship between the employee and the organisation. That a psychological contract is as equally important but is less well known. They further highlight that the psychological contract
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