Case 1: The impact of online shopping on shopping centres in Australia How would you define the industry? Is the industry global? Is the organization Australian or overseas based? 1. The article is about the retail industry and in particular the Australian shopping centre industry. Are you able to identify the stage of the industry life-cycle? The Australia retail industry is moving from maturity stage to the shake-out stage. Sales decline by 0.3% per annum over the past 5 years
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holding company. The company is intending to enter into new market in Australia. Before the company can enter new market, a number of factors needs to be considered. In part 1 of this work, we proposed that the best entry mode to adopt would involve the strategic alliance. The reason why strategic alliance was chosen is that Aztech Group Ltd is most likely to face different challenges, which are broadly classified as cultural, legal, political, economic and market (Aztech Group Ltd 2012). Part 2, on the
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AB3601 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Course Outline Semester 1 of the Academic Year 2015-2016 Course Coordinator: Assoc Prof Tsui-Auch Lai Si Course Instructor for Groups 2, 5 and 5: Wan Chew Yoong Office: S3-1C-80 Tel: 67905651 email: acywan@ntu.edu.sg Course Description and Objective The Strategic Management Course focuses on identifying and understanding the sources of superior firm performance. This course introduces theoretical concepts and frameworks useful for analyzing the external and internal
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University leverages on the quality, prestige and capabilities of its strategic partners - a consortium of the 11 public universities. OUM adopts the motto “University for All" which is consistent with its philosophy on democratization of education. This philosophy underlies the belief that education should be made available to all, regardless of time, place, age and social economic background. The open and distance learning (ODL) mode is specifically targeted at working adults who need to take care of
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networks and relationships, and control through corporate culture, drawing out HRM implications. * Mode of operation used in various international markets: The various modes-such as wholly owned, franchising, management contracts and international joint ventures- used by multinational for foreign market entry and expansion. Again, we attempted to demonstrate the IHRM implications of the various modes, although noting that most of the literature focuses on wholly owned subsidiaries and international
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shifts to expansion. These might include things like internal changes as well as linkages with other organizations that help provide the desired result. Therefore, the options or strategic plans must be selected with caution. Globalization makes management assess the costs and benefits of various possible modes of entry into the global market. In general, the choices can be seen as ranging from no ownership in foreign locations, to joint ventures, to sole ownership of foreign subsidiary. Globalization
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. ORANA uses both its own sales staff and independent distributors to increase retail sales in Vietnam. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this strategy. ORANA realized the huge opportunity in covering new market areas due to the increasing demand in Vietnam as an emerging market, many indications showed that annual sales has a potential growth rate of around 20%, due to the increasing purchasing power, the middle class is growing, and people are willing to try new products. Therefore
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Korea & Japan Trip Spring 2001 NTT DoCoMo and Japan’s Wireless Industry Anu Bhave Haakon Brown Will Chu Jose De Oteyza Mario Lewis Wendy Miller Luis Pintado NTT DoCoMo seems to have the elements of a successful global player. First, it is in a promising market. The wireless phone market is growing rapidly and industry forecasts predict more than half the world’s population will own a cellular phone by
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ANALYSIS OF INDIA Political: (Stable) After researching the taxation and government policies, it can be said that India is politically stable and it will not upset doing business or growth of the company. India has an open system for the foreign entry. But sometimes the country faces ups & downs in the political sector. Tax rate in India is 30% for Indian companies and 40% for foreign companies. The foreign investments are highly encouraged as 100% Foreign Direct Investment and Joint Ventures
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Korea & Japan Trip Spring 2001 NTT DoCoMo and Japan’s Wireless Industry Anu Bhave Haakon Brown Will Chu Jose De Oteyza Mario Lewis Wendy Miller Luis Pintado NTT DoCoMo seems to have the elements of a successful global player. First, it is in a promising market. The wireless phone market is growing rapidly and industry forecasts predict more than half the world’s population will own a cellular phone by
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