UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE ECON90015 MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS SEMESTER 2, 2012 ASSIGNMENT Assessment This assignment contributes to 20% of the final assessment Word Limit This assignment should be no longer than 2000 words (excluding tables, footnotes and appendix). Please keep within the word limit as marks may be deducted if the assignment is too long. Cover sheet Make sure you put a cover sheet on your assignment identifying student names and ID numbers, your tutor and tutorial times
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Chapter 12 suggested answers 1. It has been said that Porter’s five-forces analysis turns antitrust law on its head. What do you think this means? Antitrust laws are intended to protect, promote competition and to push industry profits towards competitive floor in order to resist market dominance. Porter’s five forces model reflects that an industry has absolute market power if threat of entrants and substitutes are low along with weak bargaining power among suppliers and buyers, and if industry
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Q: using Porter’s 5 forces model, identify the competitive pressures facing McDonald’s. How can the company surmount these pressures? Using Porter’s five forces model – the first force that can affect McDonalds is buyer power. Since there are no switching costs for a customer to leave McDonalds and go else where, McDonald’s has to do things that will keep the customers coming back. They keep competitive prices and have added a value menu for those customers that make their decisions based on
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Chapter 1: IT Support of Organizational Performance in Turbulent Business Environments The Wireless Café in Shanghai offers fantastic food in a whimsical décor. The chef’s contemporary interpretation of classical Chinese cuisine gives foodies a reason to indulge, and its location on the famous Bund along the Huangpu River makes it a destination for locals and visitors alike. The free wireless Internet access and table-to-table instant messaging help to create a community where regulars return
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Tools Porter's Five Forces and Profitability M.E. Porter, "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy", Harvard Business Review, 1980. This diagram has been recreated by LMC. LMC explains Porter's Five Forces and Profitability A business strategy tool designed to analyse a strategic business unit and its relationship with and competition within the industry. Using five key areas affecting profitability, the results give a company insight into its industry attractiveness. The five forces are identified
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techniques to the formulation and analysis of value creation and capture at a strategic level. Porter 5 Force analysis Porter framework assumes: 1. industry structure drives competitive behaviour 2. Industry structure is (fairly) stable. [pic] Case: Airline Industry …. Porter’s 5 forces – purpose: Identifying the different stakeholders, or ‘forces’, which affect: • The level of competition in an industry. • The ability of a company to become powerful
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Zipcar Porter’s Five Forces of Competitive Position for Zipcar Porter’s five forces analysis is supposed to provide a very simple perspective for assessing and analyzing the competitive strength and position of a company, in this case Zipcar namely. The analysis can be outlined as follows. The competitive rivalry force for Zipcar is moderate to strong. The major competition is faced from other rental agencies that provide similar services. Nevertheless, the company
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Perform a detailed Porter's Five Forces analysis a) Buyer Power: Customers have low bargaining power since they typically can't bargain for the price of their coffee but there are numerous coffee shops in the area. Overall there is high buyer power. b) Supplier Power: low because there are many suppliers available giving us multiple options to chose from c) Threat of Substitutes: High since there are multiple coffee shops in Winston Salem offering our primary product: coffee. Starbucks, Crankies
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A WATER UTILITY CONCESSIONER PORTERS FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 1. Rivalry among existing competitors- Low to Non-Existent. Since it is under concession agreement, there is no other water utility company that can engage any business similar to A Water Utility concessioner, unless granted by the government under special agreement and with full knowledge and approval of A Water Utility concessioner. 2. Threat of new entrants- Low to Non-Existent. Companies that may want to apply for the concession
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The Five Forces Framework and Competitive Strategy In this framework due to Michael Porter there are two high-level stages in the creation of competitive strategy, each stage corresponding to a high-level determinant of profitability mentioned in the previous section. The first stage is the assessment of the attractiveness of the industry in which a given company is embedded based on a structural analysis of the industry. In this stage, called the five forces framework, five forces that influence
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