Economic geography in an era of global competition poses a paradox. In theory, location should no longer be a source of competitive advantage. Open global markets, rapid transportation, and high-speed communications should allow any company to source any thing from any place at any time. But in practice, Michael Porter demonstrates, location remains central to competition. Today's economic map ...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate effect of porter`s competitive strategies tomeet customer market orientation needs in petrochemical firms. given the numbers ofproducts of this company, this study examine polyethylene products, so the impact of 3porter`s strategies, differentiation strategy, focus strategy, cost leadership strategy,evaluate in response to market orientation needs of thi...

In 1991 nobody really expected to discuss the question, if the real threat for the future of Microsoft will be an OS created by a student, distributed freely and developed by thousands of unknown helping hands. Thirteen years later, the question is no longer if Linux is a threat to Microsoft. Now, the question aims in a different direction. Today many great ICT-Players discuss how to use the “f...

Michael Porter’s Three Generic Strategy model is one of the best known in strategic management. However in the Management Accounting – Business Strategy exam, few marks are awarded just for explaining such a model. Candidates must also be able to assess the quality of the model, suggest how it may be used and apply it to relevant cases. Strategic option generation forms an important part of the...

Business strategy represents the choice of how to compete for competitive advantage (Porter, 1980, Porter, 1985). And Strategic Information Systems (SIS) shape (Rackoff et al., 1985, Wiseman, 1985) and enable (Bensaou and Venkatraman, 1995) that business strategy. SIS has been the focus of a large body of research and anecdotal descriptions (Chan and Huff, 1992, Porter and Millar, 1985, Wiseman...

A Porter and Silber procedure, a fluorometric procedure, a double-isotope derivative procedure, and a competitive protein-binding assay procedure were used to determine 17-hydroxycorticosteroids in plasma from normal individuals and from patients with endocrinopathies. Results from each of these procedures were intercompared. Results of the fluorometric procedure and the competitive proteinbind...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the variable factor approaches develop real estate industry for senior citizens achieve a sustainable success and structural equation model. Theoretical framework: PESTEL analysis (K. Pair, 2018), an assessment tool used analyse external environmental factors that impact businesses are beyond control. These include political, economic, social, techno...