ADVANTAGES Benefits from previous investments ( free-rider effect) Skilled labour Buyer education Infraestructure development Imitation costs / Innovation costs Less market and technological uncertainties Technological discontinuities First-mover inertia Fixed assets transformation costs Fear of cannibalization Harvest or adapt ? Organisational blinders Suppliers stable relationships FIRST-MOVER ADVANTAGE Pace market evolution slow fast slow Pace technological evolution Calm waters Difficult
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value added services. 3) High bargaining power for Bharti‚ due to high competition between service providers 4) Transferring equipment investment risk to vendor 5) Uncertainties in capital expenditures kept low Disadvantages: 1) Inertia from existing employees to transfer 2) Transfer of network assets build by Bharti 3) More the outsourcing core business- more dependency on vendors 2. What would be your major concerns? How would you structure the agreements to address your
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Chapter 9 Foundations of Group Behavior MULTIPLE CHOICE Defining and Classifying Groups 1. Which one of the following characteristics is not necessarily true about groups? a. Group members are interdependent. b. Groups have two or more members. c. Groups have assigned goals. d. Groups interact. e. Groups have particular objectives. (c; Moderate; Groups; p. 284) 2. What sort of groups is defined by the organization’s structure? a. informal
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APPENDIX ONE Sales Management 230 Semester 2‚ 2010 ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Name: ____________________________________________ Student ID: ______________________________ Tutor’s Name: ______________________________ Day & time of tutorial: ______________________________ Date submitted: ______________________________ If the given name by which your tutor knows you differs from your name on University records‚ you should indicate BOTH names above
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 2 — Linear Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 3 — Projectile Motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 4 — Newton’s First Law of Motion - Inertia . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 5 — Newton’s Second Law of Motion — Force and Acceleration Chapter 6 — Newton’s Third Law of Motion - Action and Reaction . . . Chapter 7 — Momentum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 8 —
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8 Science Teacher’s Guide This instructional material was collaboratively developed and reviewed by educators from public and private schools‚ colleges‚ and/or universities. We encourage teachers and other education stakeholders to email their feedback‚ comments‚ and recommendations to the Department of Education at action@deped.gov.ph. We value your feedback and recommendations. Department of Education Republic of the Philippines i Science – Grade 8 Teacher’s Guide First Edition‚ 2013 ISBN:
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closely held family business and moved from a family-owned family managed to familyowned professionally managed organization. The movement has been gradual and marked with a number of hindrances. This can be attributed to the organizational inertia which tries to maintain the status quo. The two major companies of Godrej group – Godrej & Boyce and Godrej Industries Limited‚ have sea change of difference in organizational culture and focus areas. While‚ Godrej & Boyce continues to focus
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many teams experience relational conflicts at different times and in different contexts. Connie Gersick proposes that groups do not necessarily progress linearly from one step to another in a predetermined sequence but alternate between periods of inertia with little visible progress toward goal achievement. What factors of a group work situation affect cohesiveness? Explain your answer and give an example. Group cohesion is influenced by a number of factors‚ most notably time‚ size‚ the prestige
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United States by al-Qaeda. The report said that the government ignored these warnings due to a lack of communication between various law enforcement and intelligence personnel. For the lack of inter-agency communication‚ the report cited bureaucratic inertia and laws passed in the 1970s to prevent abuses that caused scandals during that era. The report faulted the clinton and the bush administrations with “failure of imagination”. Most members of the Democratic and the Republican parties praised the commission’s
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Assignment – Physics 1 1. Two carts‚ one twice the mass of the other‚ experience the same force for the same time. What is their difference in momentum? What is their difference in kinetic energy? 2. A 12 g bullet is fired horizontally into a 96 g wooden block initially at rest on a horizontal surface. After impact‚ the block slides 7.5 m before coming to rest. If the coefficient of kinetic friction between block and surface is 0.60‚ what was the speed of the bullet immediately before impact
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