LOCATION‚ COMPETITION‚ AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: LOCAL CLUSTERS IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY By: Porter‚ Michael E.; Economic Development Quarterly‚ Feb2000‚ Vol. 14 Issue 1‚ p15‚ 20p‚ 4 diagrams Economic geography during an era of global competition involves a paradox. It is widely recognized that changes in technology and competition have diminished many of the traditional roles of location. Yet clusters‚ or geographic concentrations of interconnected companies‚ are a striking feature of virtually
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worker and an unemployed worker is looking for a job‚ but the particular characteristics the firm us looking for do not match up with the characteristics the worker offers. Technological change is one source of structural unemployment. First‚ the impact of technology on employment is that there will be massive unemployment as technological changes increases. Few studies predict large employment losses from such changes. Neither does it appear that‚ as a result of technological change. The skills
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(Q )What factors will influence your choice of leadership styles? (A) there are so many factors that will influence our choice of leadership styles. For now I will try to explain three factors that will influence a leader on his leadership Styles. Those are personality‚ company calture‚ and team members diversity. Personality:- Aligning an individual’s basic nature with a particular method of management is most often successful because the leader will be comfortable with it. For example
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products and services‚ are the result of an aggressive strategy of mergers and acquisitions starting in the late 1980s. The corporate staff is surprisingly small‚ comprised of general management‚ legal staff‚ and human resources. Part of the reason for this small staff is due to the eclectic array of businesses housed within one corporate entity. A Business Week editor recently commented that “Consolidated Products could easily be broken up into five separate companies‚ since at one time it was five
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irrational orders and they’re not even allowed to speak up for themselves in the government. This issue with adults not involving the youth in serious topics is still a controversial topic. Many years ago and still to this day‚ adults want to keep their children away from the dangers of the world‚ but little do they know that their kids could have an impact on the event. The sources‚ “Imagine This Was Your School” by Teri Kanefield
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Economies have the most impact on a country and it’s people. The economy can be impacted by many different aspects including illegal or socially unaccepted things. Afghanistan has the biggest drug trafficking scene in the world today. Their economic lives off of the money people make and then put back in the economy. Drug Trafficking is the making and moving of narcotics. Afghanistan is the number one person producer of drugs in the the world. There major drug that they produce and move is opium
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M/J13 Paper 21 With the help of diagrams‚ analyze the factors that will lead to an increase in aggregate demand in an economy‚ and discuss whether this increase is more likely to have an impact on inflation or unemployment in that economy. [12] Aggregate demand is the total spending on an economy’s goods and services at different price levels in a given time period. It consists of 4 components which are consumption‚ investment‚ government spending and net exports. When curve for aggregate demand
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The Louisiana Purchase was the greatest land purchase in US History. It nearly doubled the Nation’s size and it would bring much wealth to the nation. For example‚ in time gold would be discovered in the west and farming would be used on the land. This territory had been owned by different nations as a result of the French Indian war. However‚ in the end‚ it was sold to the US by the French. Jefferson had a plan for this land‚ although not everyone agreed with him buying the land. The treaty was
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HIRE PURCHASE SYSTEM A trader could sell goods either for cash or for credit. For goods sold on credit‚ the payments may be made by the buyer in lump sum on a future date‚ or in installments spread over for a specified period of time. When goods are sold on credit‚ for which payment is made by the buyer in installments over a period of time‚ it is called purchase system or installment system. Hire Purchase System defers to the system wherein‚ the seller of goods delivers the goods to the
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2013 Impact of Immigration on the U.S Economy America’s immigrants are more diverse than they were a century ago. In 1910‚ immigrants from Europe and Canada comprised 95 percent of the foreign-born population in the United States. Today’s immigrants come from a much broader of countries‚ including large populations from Latin American and Asia. Not surprisingly‚ the single largest home country of today’s immigrants is Mexico. All told‚ immigrants from Latin American and the Caribbean make up 53
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