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Competitive Advantage with Regard to McDonald's and Wendy's

allowed the competition (such as Wendys) to come in and take over? Or has McDonalds carved such a strong niche economically, that ...

Cellular Telephone Services and Optimal Pricing Plans

(i.e., Europe and Japan), competitors are likely to have interest in alliances and be operating with an eye toward globalization. ...

Internet Banking and Value

third make use of internet banking services. This can be placed in the sector of remote banking, where when added together with te...

Political Competition Edges and Corporations

corporations to one degree or another have favorable relationships with government and this, to an extent, secures them future opp...

Harris, Customer Service Management, and Making the Customer 'King'

The strategic plan feeds directly from the motto. The first step is to identify the needs of the customers. Initial input from pha...

Global Business and Teamwork

"highly successful organizations optimize their potential by capitalizing on the synergies of effective work groups" (2001). Par...

Business Theory and Models in a Reflective Learning Document

to make sure there is a solid foundation for any information used. Triangulation is a methodology often used in research to ensure...

Competitive Advantage, Single Markets, and the EU

good idea to offer the basic definitions of monopolistic competition and economies of scale. In its most basic sense, monopolistic...

Strategy at BMW

such had more benefit of economies of scope and scale. For example, the merger between Daimler and Chrysler in 1998 had been diffi...

Tourism Industry and Employee Empowerment

more than likely to have positive things to say about an employee. In one instance, for example, on a cruise ship, a family found ...

Analysis of Nucor Corporation Analysis

as a team (Wall Street Transcript Corp., 2002). Gambardella also commented that one of Nucors strengths is its management team (20...

FedEx and Sustainable Competitive Advantage

advantage, leading the company to acquire Kinkos to enable innovative operations. Relevance Never before has FedEx been any...

Coca Cola's Capital Structure

short-term loan. The most recent long-term financing decision was in 2003, when the company issued debt in the form of "lon...

United Kingdom's Marks and Spencer Group PLC

or criticisms regarding quality when 90 percent of its products were made in the U.K. but by the time only 65 percent were made in...

Medical and Consumer Company Johnson and Johnson

story that demonstrates how J&J put ethical theory into actual practice was the Tylenol story from the early 1980s. At tha...

Travel Agency Strategy

more direct access to the holiday providers and flight companies though the internet. The main sector of the travel agents busines...

Competitive Capabilities and Canon Copiers

digital cameras, camcorders, LCD projectors, binoculars and lenses (Lower, 2004). Though its photographic business has taken a ham...

Competitive Advantage and Technology

and Millar (1985) noted some 20 years ago that information technology ends up creating a competitive advantage by offering the bus...

The Carnival Cruise Line

not have a vision statement, however, according to their annual report they do have the aim of being the best known brand for crui...

Case Study of Japan's Komatsu Limited

such as the "F and F" project - Futures and Frontiers. Through this project, the company asked all employees to contribute ideas a...

Telecommunications Industry and Consulting

well as look for areas of improvement to help the company, constantly reviewing the way they work. In this paper the consultant is...

IT and Systems Management

in mind when it comes to designing and implementing a system, as opposed to not doing so. While this might be a simplistic stateme...

IT and the Implications of Outsourcing

results, the National Health Service in the UK has outsourced many services to a high level of criticism as has the London Ambulan...

Foreign Income Tax Exclusion and Fair Competition For Overseas US Workers

this paper, well examine what, exactly, the Foreign Income Tax Exclusion entails, how it works and how it benefits U.S. workers wh...

Organizational Theory Models and Proctor and Gamble

In four pages this paper discusses organizational theories as they pertain to Proctor and Gamble by answering some questions that ...

Harley Davidson Strategy

to take a stake in the success of the company, for it was able to gain all of the advantages of quality initiatives and lower cost...

Discussing International Arbitration

up most of the 1990s, involved Netherlands-based Benetton and its problems with Hong Kong-based Eco-Swiss. The other case, Mitsubi...

Analysis of JetBlue Air Carrier

the shade, so to speak. Like other airlines, JetBlue is facing escalating fuel costs and huge consumer demand for lower fares. The...

Germany's Competitive Position

for a competitive advantage (Porter, 1980). He argued that there were two sources of competitive advantage; cost and differentiati...

Management and Complexity Theory

some over-riding constraint" (Rosenhead, n.d.). Physical sciences have discussed the concepts of stable and unstable systems but ...