Case Study: Tutor Marked Assignment On Porter's Diamond

Arab Open University
Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA)-
PT3 Form for B301B
Academic Year 2015 - 2016 Semester:(2)SPRING-2015-2016
Branch: Program: Business Studies
Course Title: Making Sense of Strategy II Course Code:B301B
Student Name:
Ali bumadan Student ID: 6130486
Section Number: Tutor Name:
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Distribution Questions 1A B C D 2 Total Marks
100
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Criteria In text referencing 5 Referencing

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5 E-Library
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20
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Notes
Firms in a given industry, according to porter, may acquire a competitive advantage that support them in international markets due to the nature of demand in their home countries and consequently the way the aim to provide required goods and services against their competitors. in Bahraini economy, retail banking and telecom companies provide the most visible example of competitiveness over diverse demands of a large market segment. However, the idea of home demand might not be completely relevant as two of the three major telecom companies have their headquarters outside Bahrain. but it is generally agreed that industry attractiveness have increased since ending the monopoly of the national semi government owned telecom company over the telecom
in Bahrain industry sector large companies borrows heavily from government intuitions structures with their hierarchical nature and bureaucratic manpower. However, most of firms in industrial sector are more disciplined in manpower distribution than public intuitions. Smaller businesses in the construction sector for example tend to be family run. Some of the large business groups as well are family owned and family run in their higher management