Transit Stud Rev (2008) 15:303–319 DOI 10.1007/s11300-008-0017-2 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT Cutting Porter’s Last Diamond: Competitive and Comparative (Dis)advantages in the Dutch Flower Cluster Ernesto Tavoletti Æ Robbin te Velde Received: 14 March 2008 / Accepted: 13 April 2008 / Published online: 10 July 2008 Ó Springer-Verlag 2008 Abstract The Dutch are the world’s leaders in the flower business even though they seem to lack comparative advantage in the traditional
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Can the consumption of antioxidants help prevent Alzheimer Disease? Chenani Edwards St. Petersburg College Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a disease that affects memory and cognitive thought processes of the brain. It is the most common form of dementia in older people‚ and there is no current cure for this disease. However‚ there are studies being conducted stating that the high intake of antioxidants is associated with preventing the disease. This study is intended to focus
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Citation: “What makes you think colored people need your help? Why you even care about this? You white.” (Page 191) Definitions: Colored: Belonging wholly or in part to a race other than the white‚ especially to the black race; influenced or biased; specious; deceptive. Help: To save; rescue; to make easier or less difficult; to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need. Care: Serious attention; a cause or object of concern; grief; a state of mind in which one
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Revision Q1) Porter`s Five Forces Strategies for overcoming the influencers. * Threat of new entrants * A way of trying to eliminate threat of new entrants would be to create economies of scale. This approach would make it harder for new entrants to reach high scale production‚ as they would have higher costs. This is what Samsung and Apple are trying to do at the moment‚ by building large economies of scale. But at the same time‚ ZTE a Chinese company‚ started selling the cheapest Android
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structure and the method or plan used to run its business. In his book‚ Porter identified 5 external forces that will affect an industry or a market. The type of forces can help us to understand or to analyze how a company makes its profits‚ or how it could attract others to do business with. Porter also helps to identify the specific company’s competitor. We may use Porter’s competitive forces to analyze how it can have an impact to the operations of Cold Storage. Threat of New Entrants
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Explain what is meant by “The Population Bomb” and to what extent do you agree that this bomb has been diffused. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”- Paul Ehrlich‚ Stanford University biologist The population bomb theory was made popular by Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book “The Population Bomb”‚ Ehrlich posited
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of being racist though we do nothing about it. Are categorizing the wrong attribute? This has been occurring for so long‚ how do we know that not everyone is racist? Being racist can come through both mentally and physically agonizing ways. Physically other citizens can harass you or put you in potential danger‚ but you can eventually heal from these experiences If someone
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“Water is more important to human life than diamonds‚ yet tap water suppliers are less profitable than those selling diamonds. Using the concepts in MCS Chapter 3 as well as your general knowledge‚ explain why this profitability difference is likely to occur.” There are a couple of factors that come to mind when answering this question. First‚ lets look at the willingness to pay factor. We know from the text book that we can think of the product’s value to the customer as the highest price he/she
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Social order can be defined as a stable system of s social institutions that bring about the regular patterns of shared‚stable and predictable behavior.It refers to a set of linked social structures ‚social institutions‚social practices which conserve‚maintain and enforce "normal" way of relating and behaving‚Functionalist theory assumes that a certain degree of order and stability is essential for the survival of social systems.Without it‚society may expose to chaos and disorder.An example showing
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TO WHAT EXTENT IS UTILITARIANISM COMPATIBLE WITH CHRISTIANITY The main idea of utilitarianism (U) is to create ‘the greatest pleasure for the greatest number of people’. This is similar to Christianity and the golden rule ‘love your neighbour as yourself’. With situation ethics‚ in a dilemma you should always do the most loving and compassionate thing. However in contrast to the utilitarian idea that you should try and greatest happiness for the most people‚ Christian ethics would look at everyone
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