1. Introduction The Virgin Group is one of Britain’s biggest and successful empires in the 21st century. The company has successfully incorporated a great number of diverse industries under the Virgin brand. This includes travel‚ mobile‚ financial services‚ leisure‚ cosmetics‚ retail‚ and music businesses. Virgin has been able to dominate the British market and has therefore continued to rapidly expand into other regions such as the United States‚ Canada and Australia. The enterprise was founded
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Yvette Yvette is the main character of the novel “The Virgin and the Gipsy”. Despite of that fact‚ the author doesn’t describe her appearance in details‚ the reader can form her image mostly because of her actions‚ thoughts‚ mimicry and relationships with other characters. For instance: “She was always out to parties and dances‚ friends came for her in their motor cars‚ and off she went to the city; yet she always seemed like a creature mesmerized; At home‚ she truly was irritable‚ and outrageously
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ABSTRACT Since the establishment of the first national strategic development plan in the early 1970s‚ the construction industry has played an important role in terms of the economic‚ social and cultural development of Indonesia. The industry’s contribution to Indonesia’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased from 3.9% in 1973 to 7.7% in 2007. Business Monitoring International (2009) forecasts that Indonesia is home to one of the fastest-growing construction industries in Asia despite the average
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0262-1711.htm A comparison of strategic planning practices in companies from the UK and Turkey Keith W. Glaister Management School‚ University of Sheffield‚ Sheffield‚ UK Omer Dincer Turkish Grand National Assembly‚ Ankara‚ Turkey Strategic planning practices 361 Received 3 May 2006 Revised 18 October 2007 Accepted 25 January 2008 Ekrem Tatoglu Faculty of Business Administration‚
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Amartya Sen‚ an Indian economist and political philosopher‚ first articulated the “The Capability Approach” in the late 1970s and 1980s in order to create an alternative and new framework of thinking and evaluating issues of poverty‚ development‚ well-being and equality by embracing complexity‚ plurality and individualism with the aim to not overlook anything. Through his creation of the Capability Approach‚ Sen shows that his primary concern is to create a pluralistic conception of poverty and development
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Tourism Development in Australia Introduction The tourism industry is exceptionally complex and is constantly growing in size and competitiveness. Tourism plays a key role in our export industry accounting for 10% of the total export earnings‚ making it Australia’s largest service export industry. These contributions to Australia’s Gross Domestic Profit (GDP) have grown significantly from $25.2 billion in 2002 to $34 billion in 2011 (Kumar Narayan‚ 2006; Department of Resources Energy and Tourism
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Capabilities Analysis of JetBlue Airlines JFK Hub The JFK Airport hub in New York City is a tangible physical resource of JetBlue. This hub provides significant size and location capabilities. The airport is a large population center‚ with 19 million people within the 60-mile radius. The hub is also at the heart of some underserved markets‚ including upstate New York and the New England region. This resource also has political support from the state government. This support allowed JetBlue
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Sony has numerous resources and capabilities ranging from tangible to intangible that give them their own unique competitive advantage as well as put them in positions that could potentially hurt their growth and strategy. Sony in the past has made bad strategic decisions in aspects of which technology they pursue. When video tapes were becoming popular Sony’s BetaMax was a failure and now today the Sony brand is leading with their involvement with the Blu-ray. The gaming industry has seen increasing
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Virgin background Virgin is an international investment group that operates in over 34 countries and that employs around 50‚000 people in about 400 companies worldwide. Its product ranges from mobile services to travel‚ finance services‚ music and many many more. It was funded in 1970 by Sir Richard Branson who started the company by selling cut price records by post through his Virgin Mail Order business. The company expended really quickly and is now a well-recognized and trusted brand all around
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Exploring Strategy‚ 9th Edition‚ Instructor’s Manual strategic reasons for this success. Theoretically‚ this success should lie in strategic relationships (synergies and similar)‚ which the student should explain. Where bidders’ share-prices fall particularly far‚ they should look for reasons for scepticism about the strategic rationale; typically‚ the press coverage will provide ample guidance here. .. _... E· .- lC ase xamp e ··_·.c The Virgin Group Students will probably have different views
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