The decisions of one firm therefore influence and are influenced by the decisions of other firms. Strategic planning by oligopolists needs to take into account the likely responses of the other market participants. Description[edit] Oligopoly is a common market form where a small number of firms are in competition. As a quantitative description of oligopoly‚ the four-firm concentration ratio is often utilized. This measure expresses the market share of the four largest firms in an industry as a
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and Co. there is much evidence of biased exploitation in the workplace. Duke Power and Co‚ through various efforts infringed on the rights of its African American employees and persisted in using unfair practices to limit their ability to advance within the company. The act of paying African Americans significantly lower wages than their Caucasian counterparts in attempts to confine them to the labor department as well as administering exams which had no correlation to their job‚ reinforces the notion
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Financial Crises and Firm Performance Financial crises • Financial crises could happen anywhere‚ although emerging markets tended to be more seriously afflicted in recent times • Companies operating in a region where a financial crisis had broken out could undergo corporate disasters as a result. • The following sections describe what happened during three major financial crises in the late 1990s and early 2000s‚ and how the business sectors of the regions were affected. • The best-known of
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CEO’s compensation and firms’ performance. Before the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation (SOX thereafter)‚ which regulates the unethical wrongdoings‚ CEOs enjoyed unreasonable high remuneration despite of their mediocre performance. The overall focus of this report is to identify the relationship between CEO’s compensation and performance of the company‚ and figure out whether the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation has an impact on it. Using a sample of CEO compensation and firm performance in the
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Why firms go international? There are many reasons can promote firms go international‚ includes the domestic market saturation‚ end of PLC in domestic market‚ geographic diversification‚ to gain the economies of scale‚ stiff competition in domestic market and absence of competitors overseas etc. 1. Some firms go international in order to gain the economies of scale. As a research has pointed out that a doubling of output can reduce the production costs by up to 30 per cent. This is very obvious
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The Cost of Capital in Multinational Firms Monique N. Mixon University of Maryland University College FIN 630‚ 04 November 2012 Turnitin.com=_________ ABSTRACT This paper examines the cost of capital for multinational firms and determines that the multinational firm should use the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) to evaluate international and domestic investment decisions and to magistrate the enactment of subsidiaries domestically and internationally. This paper also discusses
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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect International Journal of Project Management 32 (2014) 327 – 340 www.elsevier.com/locate/ijproman Project risk management methodology for small firms Sara Marcelino-Sádaba a‚⁎‚ Amaya Pérez-Ezcurdia a ‚ Angel M. Echeverría Lazcano b ‚ Pedro Villanueva a a Dept. Projects and Rural Engineering‚ Public University of Navarre‚ Spain b Zabala Innovation Consulting‚ S.A.‚ Spain Received 15 January 2013; received in revised form 17 May 2013; accepted
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productivity. Efficient communication is the bedrock to any organization wishing to achieve such means‚ thus through obtaining relevant information on the techniques and barriers‚ which can affect the flow of good communication‚ managers are guided within the decision process‚ thus avoiding situations that may arise as a result of poor interaction‚ (Hyde etl‚ 2006). 2. Communication is defined by Rollinson (2005‚ P576) as ‘a process in which information and its meaning is conveyed by a sender to
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Q4) what are the advantages and disadvantages to a firm of operating on a large scale? Economies of scale fall under microeconomics and are the cost advantages a business obtains due to expansion. As scale is increased they cause a producers average cost per unit to fall. Microeconomics (from Greek prefix micro- meaning "small" and "economics") is a branch of economics in which you study the behaviour of how the individual firms make decisions to allocate limited resources. Normally‚ it applies
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The competitive Environment: remote‚ industry and operating environment 3. Macro Environment: wider environment The micro-environment denotes those elements over which the firm has control or which it can use in order to gain advantage that will better help it in its operations. These elements can be manipulated‚ or used to glean information‚ in order to provide fuller satisfaction to the company’s customers. The objective is to ensure organization survival‚ growth and profitability through satisfying
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