Extreme Business-Models in the Clothing Industry - A Case Study of H&M and ZARA Kristianstad University The Department of Business Studies FE6130 Bachelor Dissertation International Business Program December 2007 Tutors: Håkan Phil Timurs Umans Authours: Susanne Göransson Angelica Jönsson Michaela Persson Abstract In the clothing industry firms compete successfully by applying different businessmodels. H&M and ZARA are two extremes in the clothing industry. H&M’s business-model mainly focuses
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A Conceptual Framework for the Design of Organizational Control Mechanisms Author(s): William G. Ouchi Source: Management Science, Vol. 25, No. 9 (Sep., 1979), pp. 833-848 Published by: INFORMS Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2630236 Accessed: 12/12/2008 16:24 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless
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State versus Private Ownership Andrei Shleifer Department of Economics Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts. Abstract Private ownership should generally be preferred to public ownership when the incentives to innovate and to contain costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the "dynamic vitality" of free enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1940s failed to see the dangers of socialism in part because they focused on the role
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THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LVII, NO. 5 • OCTOBER 2002 Information Production and Capital Allocation: Decentralized versus Hierarchical Firms JEREMY C. STEIN* ABSTRACT This paper asks how well different organizational structures perform in terms of generating information about investment projects and allocating capital to these projects. A decentralized approach—with small, single-manager firms—is most likely to be attractive when information about projects is “soft” and cannot be credibly
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1750-6204.htm Factors influencing entrepreneurial intensity in communities Sibylle Heilbrunn Department of Business Administration, Ruppin Academic Center, Israel Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors influencing entrepreneurial intensity. More specifically the study addresses the following objectives: propose a way to measure entrepreneurial intensity within the community
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International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 1 No. 7; [Special Issue –June 2011] Study the Effects of Customer Service and Product Quality on Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi (Corresponding Author) PhD Scholar in Business Administration Department of Commerce & Research Center University of Pune, India E-mail: Afsharasghar@yahoo.com, Phone: 00919890581970 Mohammad Ali Hajizadeh Gashti Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Human
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® Academy oi Management Review 1994, Vol. J9. No. 1. 119-143. INTERNATIONAL-BUSINESS POLITICAL BEHAVIOR: NEW THEORETICAL DIRECTIONS JEAN J. BODDEWYN Baruch College THOMAS L. BREWER Georgetown University Alternative assumptions are advanced regarding the political nature of international business and the role of government as a factor of production, which firms must manage in their international valueadded chains. Based on a model oi business political behavior, various propositions are
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Fahy, Smithee / Strategic Marketing and the Resource Based View of the Firm Strategic Marketing and the Resource Based View of the Firm John Fahy University of Limerick Alan Smithee Alloa Metropolitian University John Fahy is Professor of Marketing, Dept. of Management & Marketing, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland 353-61-213126 (office), 353-61-338171 (fax) John.Fahy@ul.ie. Alan Smithee is Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Alloa Metropolitian University, Alloa, Scotland. Please address
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something from another party. This suggests that firms will emerge which can internalise the production of goods and services required to deliver a product, so that avoiding these costs. This argument sets the stage for the later contributions by Oliver Williamson: Markets and hierarchies are alternative co-ordination mechanisms for economic transactions. The real world is full of uncertainty that prevents the price mechanism from achieving the
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Performance, Houghton-Mifflin, 3rd ed. R.Schmalensee (1987). "Industrial Organization" The New Palgrave, v. 2, p. 803. Stigler, George J. (1983) The Organization of Industry. Tirole, Jean (1988)-. The Theory of Industrial Organization MIT Press. Williamson, Oliver E., ed. (1990). Industrial Organization. Edward Elgar. • יש התאמה מלאה בין מבנה :שוק לתחרות שבו, ולכל אלה כמות ואיכות המוצרים שייוצרו והשירותים שיינתנו מחירי מוצרים ושירותים וזמינותם רמת החדשנות והיצירתיות יעילות והקצאת
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