1. What are IKEA’s firm-specific advantages? Country - specific advantages? IKEA’s firm and country specific advantages could be the following: IKEA sells the same furniture all over the world‚ so IKEA rips huge economies of scale from the size of its stores and the big production runs necessary to stock them. IKEA also offers a low competitive price because of the economies of scale (30% lower than competitors) Exclusive relationship between IKEA and its suppliers‚ offering modern and exclusive
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Investigation 11 Specific heat capacity Aim: Investigate to determine the specific heat capacity of a metal cube provided Apparatus: -thermometer -stirrer -water -calorimeter -beam balance -metal cube -beaker Procedure: Using the normal equipment for Thermal Physics investigations‚ you are required to design and carry out an investigation to determine the specific heat capacity of a metal cube provide by teacher. Furthermore‚ you will need to compare your obtained value with
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STAGE 1 PHYSICS ASSESSMENT TYPE 1: INVESTIGATIONS FOLIO PRACTICAL INVESTIGATION 2: SPECIFIC HEAT PURPOSE This assessment provides the student with the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to: formulate hypotheses and identify variables conduct an investigation collect‚ analyse and interpret data‚ and form conclusions evaluate results communicate your understanding of the physics concepts relating to the speed of sound in air DESCRIPTION OF ASSESSMENT Students will measure the
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giving a straight answer to the question ‘what is ESP?’ we will begin instead with the following question: ‘Why ESP?’ After all‚ the English Language world got along well enough without it for many years. However‚ from the early 1960’s‚ English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has grown to become one of the most prominent areas of EFL teaching today. Its development is reflected in the increasing number of universities offering an MA in ESP (e.g. The University of Birmingham‚ and Aston
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associated in particular with the work of Peter Strevens (Haliiday‚ Mcintosh and Strevens‚ 1964)‚ Jack Ewer (Ewer and Latorre‚ 1969) and John Swales (1971). Operating on the basic principle that the English of‚ say‚ Electrical Engineering constituted a specific register different from that of‚ say‚ Biology or of General English‚ the aim of the analysis was to identify the grammatical and lexical features of these registers Teaching materials
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CHAPTER AUDIT REPORTS THE AUDIT REPORT WAS TIMELY‚ BUT AT WHAT COST? 3 LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to 3-1 Describe the parts of the standard unqualified audit report. Specify the conditions required to issue the standard unqualified audit report. Understand combined reporting on financial statements and internal control over financial reporting under Section 404 of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act. Describe the five circumstances when an unqualified report with an
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different to Specific Learning Disability‚ which means that the child may have difficulties in only one or two areas of their learning‚ but manages well in other areas of their development ie: they may
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A crime-specific strategy is a targeted enforcement or intervention in the exact place and time with an specific offender and offense (Hoover‚ 2014). Of these specificity strategies‚ there are two‚ that in my opinion‚ go hand in hand and would be of the greatest importance or impact. These would be that of field interview and/or that of directive response patrol. With your field interviews you have more hands on in your beat to allow you knowledge of the general area‚ where as the crimes are usually
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Essay In chapter 3‚ we look more into the specific and changing environment. There are five components in specific environment. They are the customers‚ the competitors‚ the suppliers‚ industry regulation and advocacy group. There are three steps to identifying changes in the external environment. The first is environmental scanning‚ then interpreting environmental factors and lastly‚ acting on opportunity and threats. There are many competitors in the hardware industry. In Vitraco‚ competitors
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Tony was appointed as the HR manager for tangerine center Sdn Bhd. A beauty center that catered solely to ladies in the town of Kuantan .The beauty center was doing well and the number of clientele was rapidly escalating. The growth was expected to continue and plans were being made to expand the center. This expansion concerned Tony. In the previous year itself‚ Tony had struggled to recruit enough qualified job applicants. He knew that the new expansion would intensify the problem. At that time
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