Competitive Advantage ”A company can outperform its rivals only if it establishes a difference that it can reserve”. - Michael Porter The unique skills and assets a company has to outperform its rivals are the sources of competitive advantage. The competitive advantage results from implementing a value creating strategy that is not implemented simultaneously by its competitors. The strategy attains sustainability if the competitors are unable to erode the strategic advantage the company has
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universities. The students may either find a job after leaving their school or further their studies in university. Some of the well to do students may opt for foreign universities. But there are advantages and disadvantages while students pursuing their studies in foreign universities. The advantage of pursuing studies in foreign universities is‚ they have better exposure and wider knowledge. Foreign universities are prestigious and reputable. They hired experienced lectures to teach the students
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What are the differences between absolute advantage and comparative advantage? Absolute advantage and comparative advantage are two basic concepts to international trade and perhaps two most important concepts in international trade theory. Under absolute advantage‚ one country can produce more output per unit of productive input than another. With comparative advantage‚ if one country has an absolute (dis)advantage in every type of output‚ the other might benefit from specializing in and exporting
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balance sheet management. Also there are some methods commercial banks use to manage the risks: by matching the assets and liabilities according to the maturity pattern or the matching the duration‚ by hedging and by securitization. Asset securitization ‘Asset securitization is
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Securitization is a structured finance process that distributes risk by aggregating assets in a pool ‚often by selling assets to a special purpose entity‚ then issuing new securities backed by the assets and their cash flows. The securities are sold to investors who share the risk and reward from those assets. Securitization is similar to a sale of a profitable business into a separate entity. The previous owner trades the ownership of that unit‚ and all the profit and loss that might come in the
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I have chosen the Comparative Advantage Theory for my key term to discuss. I chose this term because it has a great importance on world trade clearly help shape the pattern of world trade‚ and also to get a better understanding of the concept. Comparative Advantage is the benefit or advantage of an economy to be able to produce a commodity at a lesser opportunity cost. According to Satterlee (2009)‚ opportunity cost is the value of what had to be given up‚ or forgone‚ to consume or achieve the object
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The Absolute Advantage concept is generally attributed to Adam Smith for his 1776 publication An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations in which he countered mercantilist ideas. Adam Smith argued that it was impossible for all nations to become rich at the same time by following mercantilism because the export of one nation is another nation’s import and instead stated that all nations would gain simultaneously if they practiced free trade and specialized in accordance with their
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2007 / 01:24 Comparative Advantage and Efficient Advertising in the Attention Economy Bernardo A. Huberman and Fang Wu HP Labs‚ Palo Alto‚ CA 94304 November 3‚ 2006 Abstract We analyze the problem that enterprises face when having to decide on the most effective way to advertise several items belonging to their inventories within the company’s webpages. We show that the ability to arbitrarily partition a website among items leads to a comparative advantage among webpages which can be
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Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification achieved by using a tool‚ mechanical device or machine system. Ideally‚ the device preserves the input power and simply trades off forces against movement to obtain a desired amplification in the output force. The model for this is the law of the lever. Machine components designed to manage forces and movement in this way are called mechanisms. An ideal mechanism transmits power without adding to or subtracting from it. This means the ideal
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Discuss what is meant by sustainable competitive advantage Sustainable competitive is what all the companies want to gain it and maintain it‚ it can let the company to keep the position of market leadership and let the company be successful. Evans et al. (2003‚ p.225) states that “no advantage is sustainable for ever‚ as competitors will seek to imitate it. “It has told that a sustainable competitive advantage it should be unique and can’t be copy easily by the competitors‚ also Evans et
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