analysis of the company and follows on to the analysis of the company’s internal environment. Resource base view together with value chain analysis has been chosen to analyse Amazon’s internal environment. Introduction Company Overview Jeffrey Bezos started Amazon in 1994, after identifying that Internet usage was growing at a rate of 2,300 per cent per year (Emerland, 2002). Working from a 400-square foot office in Seattle, Jeffrey launched Amazon in July 1995. By the end of 1996, Amazon has posted
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Systems Corp., Computer Sciences Corp., and Perot Systems (Exhibit 1). The multiyear billings of some contracts totaled in excess of $1 billion. Pretax profit margins at the division level were close to 10%. In order to present the most attractive value proposition to potential customers, GSD sought to cut costs and improve performance by “offshoring” certain activities. The combination of huge capacity expansion and similarly large price reductions in telecommunications made it highly efficient
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Canary Wharf, qualifying for inclusion in the FTSE 100, the top 100 companies by market capitalisation (value of shares), as at April 2001, importance is placed on the commercial property sector (Freeman, 2005). The property market is also of consideration to the government as well because as much as it is contributing to the economic growth of the nation – as at the end of 2003, the total value of the commercial property stock was a whopping £611bn (RICS, 2005) – it is beclouded by its own issues
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Original article Using handhelds in a Jigsaw cooperative learning environment C.-Y. Laià & C.-C. Wuw ÃDepartment of Information and Computer Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, and National Taichung Nursing College, Taichung, Taiwan wDepartment of Information and Computed Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan Abstract This paper reports our implementation of a handheld wireless environment to support Jigsaw cooperative learning activities in
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With the 2004 winter holiday season in full swing, the management team at Carnival Cruise Lines had much to celebrate. More than 3 million passengers would sail with Carnival this year, an all-time high (Exhibit 1 presents passenger numbers for Carnival and the industry). Before year’s end, Carnival was set to launch the 110,000-ton, 2,974-passenger Carnival Valor, the 20th ship in the fleet (Exhibit 2). When the Carnival Liberty joined the fleet in early 2005, Carnival’s cruise capacity would lead
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of Management, Faculty of Business Administration Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey Tel: 90-222-335-05-80/ 2544 Received: Sep. 16, 2014 doi:10.5296/jmr.v6i4.6355 E-mail: ergunk@anadolu.edu.tr Accepted: Oct. 13, 2014 Published: October 13, 2014 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jmr.v6i4.6355 Abstract The aim of this study is to analyze performance indicators used by airline companies within the framework of a performance and strategic management tool, namely, ’balanced scorecard
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networks, databases and processing capacity before it could even begin to offer tracking services.1 At about the same time, Delta Air Lines began focusing essentially all its information-technology spending on rebuilding its airport systems and infrastructure, in part to address Y2K concerns. But shortly after Jan. 1, 2000, in what the CIO described as a “land rush,” line managers submitted requests for IT investments that totaled almost three times what Delta could allocate. Each request presented a
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FOREIGN TRADE STATISTICS OF BANGLADESH 2008-09 Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics FOREIGN TRADE STATISTICS OF BANGLADESH 2008-09 October 2010 National Accounting Wing BANGLADESH BUREAU OF STATISTICS Statistics Division Ministry of Planning Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh Dhaka, Bangladesh IX Foreword Foreign Trade Statistics (FTS), one of the core publications of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), is being published annually since 1973-74. It is The
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AN INDEPENDENT VOICE FOR NURSING Work Engagement, Moral Distress, Education Level, and Critical Reflective Practice in Intensive Care Nurses nuf_237 256..268 Lisa A. Lawrence, PhD, RN Lisa A. Lawrence, PhD, RN, Instructional Faculty, Nursing Department, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ Keywords Critical reflective practice, education level, moral distress, registered nurse, work engagement Correspondence Lisa A. Lawrence, PhD, RN, Nursing Department, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ E-mail:
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2012 is assumed to be unknown thus year data will be converted into period timeframe to maintain arithmetic gradient series on the x-axis. = = + ∑xy − nx̅ y̅ ∑x² − nx̅ ² = ̅− Year 2014 2013 2010 2009 2007 2006 2005 2003 2002 1998 ∑ average = = Period (x) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 55 5.5 ̅ Anomaly °C (y) x² 100 81 64 49 36 25 16 9 4 1 385 0.69 0.62 0.65 0.59
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