competitors‚ Zara’s supply chain is quite unconventional. Instead of focusing on competitive product prices and advertising Zara has developed a super integrated supply chain paralleled by few (1). This supply chain allows it to rapidly respond to market demand and have extensive control over its design and production process (1). Inditex‚ the clothing company that owns Zara is extremely vertically integrated. It is comprised of over 100 design‚ manufacturing‚ and distribution companies (3). Contrary
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in a small workshop in A Coruña‚ since then its progress has been remarkable. Today‚ Inditex (Industria de Diseño Textil‚ SA) has become an international fashion retail composed of six business units: Zara‚ Pull & Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius and Oysho. Its organizational structure consists of several departments‚ corporate headquarters‚ the six business units mentioned above and a number of areas of support or functions shared by all business units. Corporate departments take on
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Strategy to Structure: The Power of Systematic Organization Design Introduction The reviewed paper explores a comprehensive and yet flexible model for designing and launching new organization in the context of the process paradigm of organizational design. The Organization Design Model utilizes a four-phase framework that is 1. determining the design framework‚ 2. designing the organization‚ 3. developing the details‚ and 4. implementing the new design. Literature review Organization design is
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Quentin GARNIER‚ Simon PHILIPPON‚ Ugo SCHURIG REVIEW OF “STRUCTURE IN 5’S : A SYNTHESIS OF THE RESEARCH ON ORGANIZATION DESIGN” In his book‚ Mintzberg talks about the different elements of the organizational structure. He shows 5 main and basic configurations: Simple structure‚ Machine Bureaucracy‚ Professional Bureaucracy‚ divisionalized Form and adhocracy. He also tells us that these include 5 basic parts of the organization (the operating core‚ strategy apex‚ middle line‚ techno
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advantage that organizations has over its rivals‚ allowing it to produce more prominent deals or margins and/or retain a bigger number of clients than its opposition. There can be numerous sorts of competitive advantages including the association’s expense structure‚ item offerings‚ distribution system and client bolster (Jay Barney 1991). All together for a business to remain over whatever is left of its opposition‚ it’s imperative that they build up a solid business model. Zara is one of the biggest
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To be successful in today’s world‚ organizations must quickly respond to a competitive and continuous changing environment. In most cases that means being innovative‚ reinventing themselves’ and changing many of the established ground rules of their own industry. Organizational leaders can’t allow their staff to settle and be content with ideas of the past. Organizations must challenge its management staff to embrace change while continuing to look for ways and methods to improve. In many instances
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Structuring the Research Paper Formal Research Structure For emphasis‚ the primary purposes for formal research are repeated here: • find and understand raw data and information • enter the discourse‚ or conversation‚ of other writers and scholars in your field • learn how others in your field use primary and secondary resources For the formal or primary academic research assignment‚ where you will take your place in the scholarly conversation‚ consider an organizational pattern typically used
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CASE 3.4 Continued Growth for Zara and Inditex CIRCA 2008 ARTEIXO‚ Spain¡ªZara stores have set the pace for retailers around the world in making and shipping trendy clothing. Now Pablo Isla‚ chief executive of parent company Inditex SA‚ says Zara needs to speed up. As rivals catch up‚ Mr. Isla is attempting one of the fastest global expansions the fashion world has ever seen‚ opening hundreds of new stores and entering new markets. To do that‚ as an economic downturn threatens
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CASE STUDY ANALYSIS: ZARA Name Institution Professor Course Date Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Strategic Issues Underpinning the Buying Decisions at Zara 3 3. Zara’s Product Mix Strategy: Advantages and Disadvantages 6 4. Conclusion 8 REFERENCES 10 1. Introduction Zara is a successful retail clothing company that expanded over the years due to its elaborate supply chain and excellent product mix strategy. The company established in 1963 opened its first store in 1975
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Zara Group Case I.1 Question 1: Which theory is the best representative of Zara’s (Inditex’s) internationalization? The Uppsala model is the best representative of Zara’s internationalization. The Uppsala model is a theory that explains how firms gradually intensify their activities in foreign markets. The key features of the Uppsala model is the following: firms first gain experience from the domestic market before they move to foreign markets. After that firms start their foreign operations from
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