be defined by the dominant discourses in society‚ such as gender and sexuality. Michael Foucault’s definition of discourse is more than just the ways of thinking and producing meaning through communication. The notion of discourse defined by Foucault have become closely associated with power and knowledge (Miller‚ 1990). Dominant discourse demonstrates how reality has been socially constructed. They can be found in many forms of media and communication. Discourses become dominant because they are
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environmental forces affecting the global pharmaceutical industry? Do these forces differ by industry sector‚ and where would you place the different sectors in the industry life-cycle? Porter’s five forces help identify their attractiveness in the industry in terms of the five competitive forces which are: the threat to entry‚ the threat of substitutes‚ the power of buyers‚ the power of suppliers and the extent of rivalry between the competitors. Where the forces are high‚ industries are not attractive to compete
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sources used A hotel is an establishment that provides lodging paid on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation‚ in times past‚ consisting only of a room with a bed‚ a cupboard‚ a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities‚ including en-suite bathrooms and air conditioning or climate control. Additional common features found in hotel rooms are a telephone‚ an alarm clock‚ a television‚ a safe‚
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Anna Marcon Lab 1 Report June 9‚ 2014 Introductions Background The dominant thumb experiment is used to observe the correlation between handedness and thumb dominance and whether one inherited trait will always influences another correlated trait. Examples of this experiment of this can be traced back as far as 1908. In this experiment 50 people were asked to clasp their hands and the thumb dominance. Once the hands were clasped‚ one thumb would naturally overlap the other and the handedness
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strategies are trend to have higher labor productivity‚ especially in some organizations which require heavy capital (Koch & McGrath 1996‚ 335-354). Therefore‚ Shangri-La have extensive training program to enhance service quality in this upper class hotel. Quality service is the competitive advantage of Shangri-La. It provides training to lead loyal employees to provide the excellent service to all customers. Employee is intangible resource‚ it is difficult and costly to imitate. Therefore‚ it helps
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There will be three shared two hour tutorials for the International Strategic Management and the Global Business Environment Courses. Students should pre- read the case studies before the tutorials‚ attempt to answer the relevant questions and bring their proposed answers in class. Tutorial 1: Case Study-The global pharmaceutical industry-in the land of shrinking giants‚ Johnson‚ G.‚ Scholes‚ K.‚ Whittington‚ R.‚ Angwin‚ D.‚ and Regner‚ P. (2014) “Exploring Strategy‚ text and cases”. Publisher:
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Service Dominant Logic Introduction: Service dominant logic view of marketing has changed from the traditional‚ foundational‚ goods dominant logic of exchange‚ in which goods were the focus of exchange and services that marketing inherited from economics a little more than 100 years ago to service as the basis of economic and social exchange. Service dominant logic has bought a paradigm shift in marketing from goods centred “value is embedded in output” dominant logic where focus was on the efficiencies
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other languages are also dying out at an accelerating rate because of the expansion of the English language. In discussing the issue of the growing influence of English; arguments‚ both for and against‚ should be considered‚ particularly‚ in the economic‚ the information exchange‚ the linguistic aspects and the aspect of alteration‚ unity and differentiation. Firstly‚ the argument for the issue is that the growing influence of English benefits the international economy. Most countries today‚
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Case 7: Global Apparel Industry 1) How did globalization change the ‘rule of the game’ in the apparel industry? What it means for a company like Zara? Traditionally‚ national retailers outsource apparel production‚ via global brokers‚ to thousands of small apparel makers. Globalization created options for countries and companies in the apparel industry. Improving technology‚ sourcing‚ and production systems let innovative apparel makers compress cycle time. Shortening process time increases efficiencies
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