do you identify as Sony’s resources‚ capabilities and core competencies? Does Sony have a sustainable competitive advantage? Sony Corporation is considered one of the world’s most successful companies‚ operating in the “electronics‚ games‚ music‚ films and financial services” industry (Hanson et al‚ 2001). Sony is known for creating “products that stimulate the senses and refresh the spirit” (Sony‚ 2007). Effectively managing a combination of its resources‚ capabilities and core competencies‚ has
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STRATEGIC PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT Fages Gaspard Introduction of the company Main address: Carrefour S.A.‚ BP 419-16‚ 75769 Paris Cédex1 6 Avenue Raymond Poincaré‚ Paris 75116‚ France Tel: +33 1 53 70 19 00 Fax: +33 1 53 70 86 16 Website: www.carrefour.com Carrefour is the world’s second largest retailer in terms of sales. Truly global player with operations in over 35 countries. Major formats are hypermarkets‚ supermarkets and discount stores. Well known for entering
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CARREFOUR CHINA‚ BUILDING A GREENER STORE Edizcan İkizoğlu Ertuğrul Ozan Özbahar Sırma Karakaya IE457|Case 2 Report Bilkent University November‚ 2013 I.SUMMARY In 1995‚ Carrefour entered China‚ with its first store opening in Beijing. By June 2006 the company was operating 73 hypermarkets in 29 Chinese cities and it was the number one foreign retailer in China having the fastest growing rate among its competitors [1]. The company planned to open 100 new stores in 2006-07 because the
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Chapter 5 Carrefour S.A. Teaching Note Version: March 2007 Introduction The Carrefour case is a financial analysis case. Carrefour S.A. is one of the world’s largest retailers. During the first half of the 2000s‚ the company’s share prices steadily declined‚ despite the fact that the company reported above-average returns on equity. Students are asked to analyze Carrefour’s financial statements and segment data to find explanations for the company’s poor share price performance and to make recommendations
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RETAIL INNOVATIONS CASE STUDY Carrefour: Hypermarket Reinvention Carrefour’s approach to revitalizing its hypermarket format and key action points for retailers looking to improve their large format store sales Reference Code: CM00028-002 Publication Date: December 2010 OVERVIEW Summary Verdict’s Retail Innovations case studies are new for 2010. Each profile provides an evaluation of a company that stands out due to a set of unique characteristics‚ or a particular strategic initiative
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1a) Dynamic capabilities are abilities which enable the organisation to renew and recreate its strategic capabilities to meet the needs of the changing environment. It is the capacity of an organisation to change which enables them to adapt more readily. Sustainable competitive advantage relies on resources‚ competencies and capabilities evolving with the dynamics of the industry. Sustainable competitive advantage is achieved when an organisation’s capabilities are of value to customers‚ unique
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of great uncertainty and increasing volatility in the overall business climate‚ Carrefour‚ the world’s second largest retailer aims to accelerate growth. Through a strategic lens‚ we seek to review and identify the various key areas that Carrefour need to focus so as to gain a stronger foothold in Asia. 1.1 The Research Background The purpose of the assignment is to analyze the business environment of Carrefour and ensure strategic integration of its people and policies with the aim of bringing
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Giorg i Gogava To: Mr. David Wikla uri Case # 12.1 Carrefour Expands Abroad 1. What is the biggest competitive threat facing Carrefour as it expends to global market ? There are many competitive threats facing Carrefour in the global environment such as competitive rivalry‚ low switching costs etc. but in my opinion the biggest threat which Carefour is facing is threat of substitution because the only real competitive advantage of Carrefour for example in China at first stage is not it’s well
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Carrefour Introduction Carrefour one of the biggest retailers in Europe‚ which is working with the shopping area and discounters in the world. The company is headquartered in Paris‚ France.) The company started in France in 1959 and opened its first supermarket in 1960. The first major changes and expansions‚ which that it went through‚ were between the 70s and the 80s‚ a period that saw the stocks of the company being floated in 1970 in the Paris bourse. In 1970 the company presented in stock
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Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 21: 1105–1121 (2000) DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES: WHAT ARE THEY? KATHLEEN M. EISENHARDT* and JEFFREY A. MARTIN Department of Management Science and Engineering‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ California‚ U.S.A. This paper focuses on dynamic capabilities and‚ more generally‚ the resource-based view of the firm. We argue that dynamic capabilities are a set of specific and identifiable processes such as product development‚ strategic decision making‚ and
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