that the notion of truth is a contrived illusion‚ misused by people and special interest groups to gain power over others. • Truth and error are synonymous - Facts‚ postmodernists claim‚ are too limiting to determine anything. Changing erratically‚ what is fact today can be false tomorrow. • Self-conceptualization and rationalization - Traditional logic and objectivity are spurned by postmodernists. Preferring to rely on opinions rather than embrace facts‚ postmodernist spurn the scientific method
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Analysis of the Global Automotive Industry This report provides an analysis and evaluation of common and major global trends and identifies the common business opportunities and their impact on the global automotive industry. Globalization gave the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) not only the opportunity to expand to the new markets‚ but it also increased the risk of failure. Since globalization increased competition and gave the choice to consumers‚ automotive industry needs constant
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Kentucky Fried Chicken and the Global Fast-Food Industry Jeffrey A. Krug University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Copyright © 2001 by Jeffrey A. Krug. Used with permission. Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation (KFC) was the world’s largest chicken restaurant chain and third largest fast-food chain in 2000. KFC had a 55 percent share of the U.S. chicken restaurant market in terms of sales and operated more than 10‚800 restaurants in 85 countries. KFC was one of the first fast-food chains
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TCE asserts that transactions have distinct characteristics that explain how firm’s boundaries are drawn and when determine whether “market or hierarchy” will have the lower transaction costs in various circumstances. Asset specificity‚ uncertainty and frequency are the three variables of TCE that are used to characterise transactions. Williamson (1979) suggested four main forms of asset specificity‚ namely site specificity‚ physical asset specificity‚ dedicated assets and human asset specificity
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TOYOTA’S OBJECTIVES IN GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS The automobile industry is America’s largest manufacturing industry with total auto industry and related employment numbering 13.3 million‚ a new Center for Automotive Research study shows. The majority of those jobs are in supplier and related industries. About 6.6 million jobs are connected to automotive manufacturing and new vehicle sales. This generates more than $240 billion in annual private sector compensation. (Automakers
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2014 INDUSTRY PROFILE – THE COSMETICS INDUSTRY The Cosmetics Industry‚ also known as the “Beauty Industry” has gone through dramatic changes in the last 20 years. In the last two decades‚ the global Cosmetics Industry has shown growth of 4.5% a year on average. This stable and continuous growth shows resilience even in negative economic conditions. The Cosmetics Industry was affected by the 2009 recession but recovered in 2010 as the global economy improved. The Cosmetics Industry is divided
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Kostopoulos Doctoral Candidate‚ Management Sciences Laboratory‚ Athens University of Economics and Business‚ 47A Evelpidon & 33 Lefkados‚ GR 113 62 Athens‚ Greece. axion@aueb.gr Yiannis E. Spanos Lecturer‚ Management Sciences Laboratory‚ Athens University of Economics and Business Gregory P. Prastacos Professor‚ Director of the Management Sciences Laboratory‚ Athens University of Economics and Business ABSTRACT Over the last years the resource-based view (RBV) of strategic management
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Prepared By : Nithinlal.M PGDM ’13-‘15 Reg No : PG13027 Industry Overview Approximately 95% of India’s international trade by volume and 70% by value are seaborne. India has 11 major ports‚ 19 Medium port‚ and 187 minor ports along 7‚517 km long Indian coastline. It is strategically located as a major maritime nation due to its long coastline that flanks important global shipping routes. The National Transport Policy Committee (1980) recommended the following principles for
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INDUSTRY OVERVIEW The Indian Industry as a whole has given away a growth which is of positive but comparatively less than the previous year. For instance the Industry registered a growth of 7% in the month of April 2008 as compared to 11% growth registered in the same month of the previous year. In March 2008 industrial growth which was recorded was 3.9% the lowest in past 6 years. The growth slipped due to the sharp downfall in the manufacturing and specifically electrical sector to 7.5% and
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BUSINESS PLAN [Type the document subtitle] AKNOWLEDGEMENT May ALLAH bless us with such kind of dedicated teacher in future. Thanks to Sir____________‚ under his dynamic guidance we are able to express our-self. And we are now at the stage to complete our project. And finally we are thankful that He cooperated with us. All the work we have done is due to the skill we required from you. We have tried our best to provide you the precise data and
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