CARL’S JR • Does the firm possess a competitive advantage? -How can it be sustain? There’s room to grow the hamburger business in Thailand‚ as consumption remains low compared with other fast food categories‚ and there are few players in this segment. A competitive advantage exists when the firm is able to deliver the same benefits as competitors but at a lower cost or deliver benefits that exceed those of competing products. In case of Carl’Jr ‚ the resources and capabilities
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analysis 3. PORTER’s five forces 4. Competitive environment 5. The Chinese clients types III. How we will get there? Action plan 1. Why China? Which objectives to reach? 2. The Ansoff’s matrix 3. The 4Ps CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report will look at the strategy that the clothing firm Caroll has to adopt in order to penetrate the Chinese market. In order to manage the strategic marketing plan‚ we will structure the paper starting with
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How Firms Avoid Losses: Evidence of Use of the Net Deferred Tax Asset Account David Burgstahler* University of Washington Gerhard G. Mueller Endowed Professor in Accounting W. Brooke Elliott University of Washington Michelle Hanlon University of Michigan Business School November 26‚ 2002 _________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT: This paper investigates whether firms use discretion in accounting for deferred taxes to increase earnings
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JENKENS & GILCHRIST: THE RISE AND FALL OF A MODERN LAW FIRM By Cheryl L. Mullin It is not the strongest of the species that survive‚ nor the most intelligent‚ but the one most responsive to change ~ Charles Darwin. I. INTRODUCTION Jenkens & Gilchrist was a Dallas-based law firm that grew rapidly in the 1990s‚ primarily through mergers‚ acquisitions‚ and lateral hires. But when it was formed in 1951‚ the partners had no national aspirations. Its only purpose‚ in fact‚ was to serve the
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Discuss the usefulness of Dunning’s eclectic paradigm in helping us understand how firms internationalise. Introduction: Dunning Eclectic paradigm was appeared in by J.H Dunning. After this journal published‚ dunning eclectic paradigm becomes the most influential theory in research of foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational (MNE). It is used comprehensively to analysis the motivation and advantages of MNE in term of FDI. In the following essay‚ I am going to talk about the importance
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of Debt Capital for Private Firms: Evidence from Finland Jukka Karjalainen Department of Business University of Eastern Finland April 10‚ 2010 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the value relevance of the perceived audit quality in terms of who audits‚ as well as the audit outcomes in terms of the auditor’s opinion and accruals quality‚ in the pricing of debt capital for privately-held firms by examining a large sample of privately-held Finnish firms. The findings indicate that
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service or a company (Johansson‚ 2006). Those markets are not only defined within country boarders‚ but are also defined by buyer preferences that are similar across countries. Recently‚ going global becomes a trend. As Crespy (1986) indicated‚ firms should turn themselves into global corporations otherwise they will lose out to the new wave. Therefore‚ not only big sized business‚ even the smallest businesses have already extended their businesses to foreign markets. One of the best examples is
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management effectiveness: lessons from worldleading firms Michal Biron a a b ‚ Elaine Farndale & Jaap Paauwe b b Graduate School of Management‚ University of Haifa‚ Mount Carmel‚ Haifa‚ Israel b Department of Human Resource Studies‚ Tilburg University‚ LE Tilburg‚ The Netherlands Available online: 30 Mar 2011 To cite this article: Michal Biron‚ Elaine Farndale & Jaap Paauwe (2011): Performance management effectiveness: lessons from world-leading firms‚ The International Journal of Human Resource Management
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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect Firms’ Performance?1 Laura Poddi2 Sergio Vergalli3 July 28‚ 2008 Abstract In the last two decades in the OECD countries there have been a raising development of firms certified as Social Responsible (CSR is the acronym of Corporate Social Responsibility). This kind of certification is assigned by private companies that guarantee that the behaviour of a certain firms environmentally and sociologically correct. Some papers (among others Preston
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Mango Briefing Book Edition 1.1 September 2009 Prepared by the USAID Pakistan FIRMS Project USAID Pakistan FIRMS Project Mango Briefing Book‚ page 2 Preface This briefing book on mango and Pakistan has been prepared by the USAID Pakistan FIRMS Project in an ongoing effort to develop and support the execution of a four-year strategy to make Pakistani mango a force in the international marketplace. It is a compilation of primary and secondary research. This is the first edition. Subsequent
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