large firms have over smaller firms and vice-versa‚ in the pursuit of entrepreneurial activity. As an enterprise can be defined as private business‚ it can thus be separated into two main categories which are small firms and large firms. Within many countries and many industries there are normally a large number of small firms and a smaller number of large firms as can be seen in the United Kingdom where there are only a few thousand large firms and over 4 500 000 small to medium sized firms according
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COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES ADOPTED BY EQUITY BANK LIMITED By Chege Bernard K. K. A Management Research Project submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA)‚ School of Business‚ University of Nairobi October 2008 ii DECLARATION This project is my original work and has not been submitted for a degree in any other university. Signed: ____________________________________ Chege Bernard K. K. Regn No: D61/P/8500/04 Date: _______________________________________
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Assignment 2 (a)Outline the main forms of flexibility as defined in Atkinson’s (1984) model of the flexible firm (b) What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of the Atkinson model? ANSWER PLAN: Introduction/Background o What are the aims of flexibility o Guest (1987) de-centralisation helps to create flexibility o What are the main forms of flexibility that modern organisation need Body: 4 types of flexibility o Functional/Temporal/Numerical/Financial Body 2: Atkinson’s
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Marketing Strategy Marketing Strategies Implemented by Corporations 1. Strategies based on Market Dominance – In this scheme‚ the companies are classified based on their market share of dominance of an industry. Typically there are four types of market dominance strategies: Leader Challenger Follower Nicher 2. Porter generic strategies – strategy on dimensions of strategic scope and strategic strength. Strategic scope refers to
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Internationalization and Firm Risk: An Upstream-Downstream Hypothesis Author(s): Chuck C. Y. Kwok and David M. Reeb Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of International Business Studies‚ Vol. 31‚ No. 4 (4th Qtr.‚ 2000)‚ pp. 611-629 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/155664 . Accessed: 20/01/2013 05:04 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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CHAPTER 1. What is strategy and why is it important. Strategic management: analysis‚ formulation and implementation in the search for competitive advantage. What strategy is : Gaining & Sustaining Competitive Advantage. There has always been a desire to outperform our competitors. In most of the situations‚ the winners are generally those with the better strategy in which strategy is formulated as the planned and realized set of actions a firm takes to achieve its goals. A firm that outperforms
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= 98% of ethanol in feed to distillate and side stream Feed‚ F xF = 0.40 Side stream‚ S xS = 0.60 Distillate‚ D xD = 0.98 Bottoms‚ B xB = 0.02 Required: D‚ S and B Solution: 2% of the ethanol in the feed goes to the bottoms Overall material balance: → Component material balance: → System of Linear Equations with D and S unknown 2. Shown below is a flowchart of a process in which acetic acid (A) is extracted from a mixture of acetic acid and water (B) into 1-hexanol
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Nobel Prize in Economics in 1991. Coase is best known for two articles in particular: "The Nature of the Firm" (1937)‚ which was written at his age of 27‚ lets even say his quite early economic age. This article‚ which was a brief but highly influential essay‚ Coase introduces the concept of transaction costs to explain the size of firms. Resume Introducing his analysis of ‘The nature of the firm’‚ Coase refers to D.H. Robertson who points out that we find “islands of conscious power in this ocean
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separate the mind and the body because we think in our mind that‚ it is going to be reflected by doing so‚ as it has to be balanced. If we are breaking apart the goods of the body‚ we need shelter‚ foods‚ drinks‚ and also clothes to maintain our lives. The good of the minds are our knowledge and understanding of life. In other words‚ we provide our thinking by learning or being knowledgeable. If we just only provide goods for the body‚ we can not think as a human being. For example‚ if we are sluggish
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The five Competitive Strategies; Low Cost Provider Broad Differentiation Focused Low Cost Focused Differentiation Best Cost Provider All of these 5 competitive strategies are used to get ahead and create an advantage over all a company ’s rivals Low cost is when a company provides the overall lower cost than other rivals in the industry. There products are targeted to a large number of different clients. It is not focused. It could be targeted to girls‚ boys‚ women‚ men‚ old‚ young‚
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