Microeconomics Term Paper Tyler Pangborn ECO 204 – Dr. Essuman May 12, 2014 The topic of my paper that I have chosen to write about involves the agricultural industry, as it stands today, and the trend that has been taking place over the last couple of decades in the industry, more specifically, companies like Monsanto, DuPont, and Dow and their growing takeover and market power of the industry in the United States and globally. As we learned in class compared to other industries like the
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The Competition Act 89 of 1998 (“the Act”) was used as reference Caption: Momentum Group Limited v African Life Health (Pty) Ltd (CAC) 58/CAC/Dec05 Heard in the Competition Appeal Court Decided 14 February 2006. Judgment written by Malan AJA. Davis JP and Mailula AJA concurring. Facts: This case dealt with the review and appeal of the decision of the Competition Tribunal. The applicants in the case are Momentum Group Limited (“MGL”) and two non-executive directors, L. Dippenaar and J
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a) Do you think a vision statement is an instrumental force for GBD to excel in business or can GBD still excel without a vision statement? Support your answer with one (1) reason. Answer: Yes, a vision statement is an instrumental force for GBD to excel in business. Vision is a picture of firm wants to be and what it wants to achieve. It is provide guidelines from top management to communicate with the employee so it would grab the employees’ attention towards the goal congruence. Therefore,
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5 Forces Analysis on the Paper Industry Looking at the position of the paper industry relative to the five forces model I had to determine exactly what constituted the paper industry. I had to decide between the Paper Mills Industry and Pulp Mills Industry and ultimately decided to analyze the Paper Mills Industry specifically when it came to paper industry as a whole. The NAICS Code that corresponds to the Paper Mills Industry is NAICS: 322121 or SIC Code 2621. Porter’s Five Forces Model of
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Strategic Groups • Firms within an industry differ systematically in traits other than size, so that industry contains subgroups of firms • Firms within a group are somewhat homogeneous and recognize their mutual dependence. • Barriers to entry become specific to the group‐ Mobility barriers. Three Generic Strategies Uniqueness perceived by customer Low Cost Position Industry wide S T R A T E G IC T A R G E T DIFFERENTIATION OVERALL COST LEADERSHIP Particular Segment
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like equally balanced companies, slow growth within an industry, high fixed costs, lack of product differentiation, overcapacity and price-cutting, diverse competitors, high-stakes investment, and the high risk of industry exit. There are also market entry barriers. PRESSURE FROM SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS. Substitute products are the natural result of industry competition, but they place a limit on profitability within the industry. A substitute product involves the search for a product that can do the same
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that information that it gathers will know where the strength or weaknesses of the company's competitive position lies. The analysis that is to be done is on supplier power, buyer power, competitive rivalry, threat of substitution and threat of new entry. Together these forces determine the profitability of the company because it is these forces that determine that prices which will be charged. By analysing supplier power we would be assessing how easy it would be for our suppliers to raise their
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quite rewarding as well. It has a great potential to perform well within the industry (considering its performance in 2003) but only if it is well managed by its owner. It is easy for newcomers to enter the industry because there are no barriers to entry; but it is difficult to compete against well established and reputed pubs/ bar and restaurant. This reason makes the industry not very attractive. Porter’s 5 Forces Industry: Restaurant & Pubs Retail Industry Buyer’s Power: Buyers includes
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forces Every industry’s attractiveness can be gauged from the competitive forces in the industry. To assess the industry attractiveness and long term sustainability we can use Porters Five Forces to analyze their competiveness using 5 factors, rivalry, entry barrier, threat of substitute, supplier power and buyer powers. Situational Analysis – Porter five forces Every industry’s attractiveness can be gauged
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GLOBAL BUSINESS STRATEGIES Analysis of the Global Competitive Environment Lecture 2 Analysis of the global competitive environment • External analysis can be divided into 2 linked processes: – Micro‐environmental analysis • competitive or near environment ‐ industry, market & strategic group – Macro‐environmental analysis • broad business or far environment STEP analysis • External analysis identifies opportunities and threats through continuous learning about the global and local business
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