Question1 A fast food restaurant currently pays $5 per hour for servers and $50 per hour to rent ovens and other kitchen machinery. The restaurant uses seven hours of server time per unit of machinery time. Determine whether the restaurant is minimizing its cost of production when the ratio of marginal products (capital to labor) is 12. If not‚ what adjustments are called for to improve the efficiency in resource use? The ratio of prices PK/PL= r/w= 50/5=10 and The capital
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INFORMATIVE SPEECH Topic : “Strategic Alliances” General Purpose : To inform Specific Purpose : To inform my audience about several types and goals of Strategic alliances that using by Companies. Central Idea : Several types and goals of strategic alliances could be good consideration to company to developing their business. INTRODUCTION : I. Do you know what is Strategic Alliances? A. Strategic alliance is a cooperative strategy in which firms combine some of their resources
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A business-level cooperative strategy is a strategy used by firms who collaboratively work together to achieve a shared objective that is focused on creating value to the customer; growth and performance improvement; gain a competitive advantage and earn above average returns by competing in one or more product markets (Hitt‚ Ireland & Hoskisson‚ 2013). This is accomplished through a strategic alliance where firms share‚ exchange and combine resources and capabilities to generate a competitive
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Unsuccessful Equity Strategic Alliance Strategic alliance can be an advantage for companies. However‚ strategic alliance is hard to be managed as it caused a high number of failures. There are many factors causing the failure of strategic alliance. Different in perception‚ different in culture‚ trust issues and many other that cause alliances to fail (Robynhenderson101’s Blog 2011). There are many companies that have failed in strategic alliance‚ one of them are Suzuki Motor Corporation and Volkswagen
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A. FIRM AND ITS OBJECTIVE: Conventional theory of firm assumes profit maximization is the sole objective of business firms. But recent researches on this issue reveal that the objectives the firms pursue are more than one. Some important objectives‚ other than profit maximization are: (a) Maximization of the sales revenue (b) Maximization of firm’s growth rate (c) Maximization of Managers utility function (d) Making satisfactory rate of Profit (e) Long run Survival of the firm (f) Entry-prevention
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[NOVEMBER The Nature of the Firm By R. H. COASE ECONOMIC theory has suffered in the past from a failure to state clearly its assumptions. Economists in building up a theory have often omitted to examine the foundations on which it was erected. This examination is‚ however‚ essential not only to prevent the misunderstanding and needless controversy which arise from a lack of knowledge of the assumptions on which a theory is based‚ but also because of the extreme importance for economics of
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Short Essay on Coase’s article: “The Nature of the Firm” Coase’s article “The Nature of the Firm” provides a set of answers to important questions such as “Why do firms exist?” “What characterizes firms?” and “What determines their scale and scope?” According to Coase‚ a firm has to find the most cheap‚ most productive goods and services by establishing contracts in an open‚ efficient market place. However‚ market places are not that pure to let firms to succeed in their needs; they are not fluid. This
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the company’s auditors to the extent that if a firm provides auditing services for a company they cannot really provide any other types of services. This limitation was put into place in order to maintain the independence of auditors and the companies that they audit. If an accounting firm was allowed to provide auditing services as well as tax services to a company‚ the independence‚ in such a case‚ of the firm would not be maintained because the firm would be in part auditing some of its own work
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The authors of the book Firms of Endearment (FoE) are calling present times as the “Age of Transcendence”. They suggest that today’s population wants more out of life than just material returns (p.xxxvii). People are looking towards self-realization and self-actualization more than ever. The authors build up enough evidence throughout the book to support on what they call the “stakeholder relationship management” (SRM) business model‚ that is based on Edward Freeman’s book (p.32). They clarify that
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