In the early of the establishment companies and trade was less of innovation and competitive advantages because of poor communication between peoples and nations, where each trade was independent of its region and limited, but now with the emergence of globalization and technology is becoming important that companies and nations have competitive advantage in order to continue the local market and because it is a tool for innovation and excellence. In this TMA I will explain the importance of the nation's to have more than one type of industry, and the importance of developing competitive advantage through policies by mentioning four of them.
Question 1:
The reliance on one source of income for the country is a major constraint in many developing
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In 1990, Michael Porter contributed to research on international competitive advantage through the publication of a well-established theory that included several methods also including a diamond theory. The aim of this research was to understand the effectiveness of the nations in generating competitive advantage through industry and industrial sectors and local conditions of the nations and the strategies of companies competing in the country and support, either the main influences are the government and the production of opportunities where they are the first motivation to create a competitive advantage and industries. Michael Porter's theory has helped the way in which some nations lacked the benefit of competitive advantage. The competitive advantage of nations has given way to solving problems such as policy-making, reforming business strategy, producing specific industries for excellence and it also results from the research and planning of the competitive advantage of nations for the production of innovation and the creation of new products and development. However, when most of the centuries start to focus on providing the competitive advantage its one of the reasons for innovation and globalization. In the facing of global and …show more content…
There are four policies and proposals which I will present that may be able to help Oman to develop their policies. First, devaluation, as stated by Michael Porter in his theory of competitive advantage of nations, is that devaluation is one of the ways to producing competitive advantage, which may lead to the promotion of local exports and domestic production of the country. Therefore, the reducing of the value of the Omani currency in the global and local markets it is possible to increase the production of products outside of Oman, which generates the competitive advantage of the nation. This type of policy is often taken by the government, which is the key to making local companies able to produce and innovate to enter the competition. Second, foreign investment in Oman, where the foreign investment policies in Oman are few and limited due to the strict laws followed by Oman in foreign investment procedures, and thus the economic diversification in Oman is limited and so few which let the production of local and international competitive advantage is very low. Oman is characterized by a
By specializing we are able to produce more than someone who doesn’t. If every country specialized in what they had comparative advantage in, prices of goods would be a lot lower. An example of this is how Florida has an excellent environment to produce oranges cheaply and then transport them to Canada to be sold at a reasonable price. If Canada decided to stop the flow of oranges from Florida and grow them here, production costs would be very expensive. This would result in a price increase of oranges so consumers would end up purchasing less (59).
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Many western countries are now shying away from globalism as a whole. Globalist and nationalist have begun to clash and argue with each other, leaving the world asking which system the world should follow. In order to ensure prosperity and success for every country, globalism is needed over nationalism to an extend. Since the majority of trade any country does is international, and it’s been shown that individual economies are interdependent on each, the current state of everyone’s economy is global.
CASE STUDY 2 INTRODUCTION Julia Juice, one of the world’s largest juice retailers who owns 1200+ stores in whole UK and USA. As it grows by year 2005 the growth becomes three times. Porter’s 5 Forces Porter 's competitive analysis will help us to understand the competitiveness of JJ business environment, and identify their strategy 's potential profitability.
Based on four attributes, first one is Factor endowments that focus on basic factors natural resources, climate, location, demographics second one is advanced factors such as communication infrastructure, sophisticated and skilled labour, research facilities, and technological know-how. Third one will be advanced factors are a product of investment by individuals, companies, and governments. Porter argues that advanced factors are the most significant for competitive advantage. Lastly demand conditions that look at customer need or the demand on which is being produced, companies will have to produce innovative, high quality products early, which lead to competitive advantage. Relating and supporting industries, if suppliers or related industries exist in the home countries that are themselves internationally competitive, this can result in competitive advantage in the new industry, firm strategy, structure, and rivalry.
The model of the Five Competitive Forces, developed by Michael E. Porter, is based on corporate strategy, industry structure and the way they change. Porter has identified five competitive forces that shape every industry and every market and they determine the intensity of competition and hence the profitability and attractiveness of an industry. We further look into how the strategy and industry structure is placed in the field of healthcare and hospitals and analyze the attractiveness of the overall industry. 2.2 Rivalry among competitors Industry Rivalry is one of the 5 forces used to determine the intensity of competition in the industry. Competition in health care is the potential to provide with a mechanism to reduce cost and hence accessible
Bark & Co. is a company founded by Matt Meeker, Henrik Werdelin and Carly Strife. The company owns several products – the initial and probably best known is ‘BarkBox’. Due to BarkBox’s success, the company Bark & Co. was created, which dedicates to build products that promote health and happiness of dogs everywhere (BarkShop, 2014). It was launched in December 2011 and had reached $25M in revenue by June 2013 with 100,000 subscribers (Fueled, 2013). Like illustrated in Figure 2, Bark & Co. has different businesses: ‘BarkPost’ is a dog content website that has the capability of receiving over 400,000 visitors monthly, ‘BarkCare’ is a dog health mobile application that can be reached 24 hours 7 days a week for vet consultation service (D’Onfro,
(Apple computer,inc 2003) Porter 's single diamond framework holds that a multinational enterprise builds on a home base to achieve international competitiveness. (Alan M. Rugman 1993) this Porter’s Diamond Model established by
ARAB OPEN UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF BUSINESS STUDIES (MBA) B 820 _ STRATEGY (TMA ONE)_ TUTOR MARKING ASSESSMENT _ Fall, 2014 TMA ONE: Answer Bader Abdullah AL-Sumri (130348) Question 1: strategies, deliberate or emergent 1) Introduction Planning, and particularly strategic planning, has been characterized as a learning process.
5.3 Country position and attractiveness According to Porter (1990), the level of competitiveness on a country depends on the capacity of the industry and the skills to upgrade and innovate. The competitive advantage is produced and sustained on the differences in values, economics structures, culture, institutions, history, and other factors that contribute to competitive success. Therefore, companies as well as nations have to fight for a position on the market as centers of production or industrialization of products.
“An organizational strategy is the sum of the actions a company intends to take to achieve long-term goals (Johnson, 2016)”. Organizational strategy is derived from a company 's mission, which tells why an organisation is in business. There are three important aspects of organizational strategy such as resources, scope and the company’s core competency (Johnson, 2016). As Johnson (2016) postulated that top management produces the larger organizational strategy, while middle and lower management adopt goals and plans to satisfy the overall strategy. Germano (2010) states that leadership has a significant impact upon organisation and its success, whereby leaders determine values, culture and employee motivation.
The four building blocks of competitive advantage can be used to help a company become more profitable and stay ahead of their competition. The four factors are superior efficiency, quality, innovation, customer responsiveness. All four building blocks are important to any company. However, I believe that customer responsiveness is the most important because having loyal and happy customers can make or break any company. The four building blocks can help companies grow and become the leader in their industry over their rivals.
There are many different approaches to development in which countries over the years adopted to further develop and grow their economy. Some countries adopted the approach of import substitution in which they try to decrease their dependency on other nations and protect and foster domestic small companies. The disadvantage for an import substitution based industry, ISI, is although it achieves growth it does so through a greater period of time. On the other hand, growth and development from export oriented industries, EOI, has greater results and is so much faster than import substituting industries. Examples of countries that adopted import based industries are countries of Latin America while countries that adopted Export oriented Industries are countries of East Asia.