INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STRATEGY SPRING 2009 Office Phone Email Chiung-Hui Tseng 61411A (Institute of International Business) (06) 275-7575 ext.53512 ctseng@mail.ncku.edu.tw Texts Ireland, Hoskisson, and Hitt (2009) The Management of Strategy: Concepts and Cases, 8th Edition, South-Western Press. Course Objectives In the past a few decades, the trend of globalization has rendered the world economies more interdependent. All businesses today (both international and domestic
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need to use strategies to compete successfully in the market. To continue to stay on top and enjoy the status and income or profit potential, they must be always on the alert. Thomson and Strickland suggest that these companies need to pursue the following strategic moves: a) Stay on the offensive strategy. This attitude means that the business organization must continuously pursue offensive strategies. The following should be done: i) Be a first mover, leading industry change; ii) Best
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Competitive Strategies for Riordan Riordan Manufacturing and its parent company Riordan industries are both performing strongly and although there are some definite flaws apparent in human resources management at Riordan Manufacturing the company is still poised to take advantage of many different competitive strategies depending on a larger environmental assessment. Internally, a very healthy profit margin and growing sales numbers are generating substantial returns for the company, and the current
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RED RIBBON CHICKEN “Ivan Pittman and Deanne Gagnon are sitting in the boardroom of Red Ribbon Chicken Inc. discussing the strategic plan for the next three years. Ivan, CEO of the firm, and Deanne, VP of Human Resources, have certainly had their work cut out for them over the past few years. About six years ago, the firm, then called Provincial Chicken Products Inc., was part of the provincial government. In its governmental role, it was the main chicken processor for the province and operated
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Social Media as a Disruptive Strategy to propel business @ Dell Social Media by itself is disruptive. In the age of Facebook, Instagram and twitter ideas, articles and information can trickle to all the corners of the world in a matter of hours. Dell realized this when there was lot of outrage in the social media space against them. There were one sided conversations because dell was not on the social media space. The firm was also scared that the employees would misuse the space and hurt the company's
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business - usually . It looks at the forces in relation to whether it is helping or I will use this to assess whether using an app strategy will ultimately benefit Nintendo in increasing it’s market share. Nintendo should have used something such as this type of planning tool because it lays out the different forces that for and against that certain decision (change). However, Lewin’s force field analysis does have limitations, in terms of being subjective as to how each force is weighted. As I am
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|using an environmental scan. | | | | |Determine what competitive advantages each company has and what strategies each company is | | | | |using. | | | | |
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The company has been a major player in the industry. InterClean sales have excelled within demonstrating and selling of products. In the near future InterClean want to obtain success and become a better company. The company is seeking other strategies to expand from the success InterClean has already obtained. The company acquired Enviro Tech to transform into a company that would be considered as a solution base organization and secure the competitive edge in the industry. InterClean has
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Annex to B/03/033 HSE CHANGE PROGRAMME 9 MONTH OBJECTIVES – Work in progress 30 April 2003 PRIORITY OBJECTIVES (These need to be more specific and challenging) ACTIVITIES (existing Star Alliance projects/input shown in heavy shade, potential role in light shade) TIMESCALE April 2003 May–Nov 2003 ACHIEVEMENTS BY DECEMBER All staff briefed and engaged in thinking through what Vision, Mission, Aims and Values mean for them, their work and their teams. As above and possible sample audit of PWPs/
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parties bargaining position. Nash’s model fits within the cooperative framework because it doesn’t concentrate on offers and counter offers but focuses mainly on the outcome of the bargaining process. The key concepts of Nash equilibrium recommends a strategy to each player that the player can not improve given that the other player follow the recommendation. Since players are rational, each player expects their opponents to follow the recommendation as well. Kenya Airways and RwandAir being players as
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