Amartya Sen‚ an Indian economist and political philosopher‚ first articulated the “The Capability Approach” in the late 1970s and 1980s in order to create an alternative and new framework of thinking and evaluating issues of poverty‚ development‚ well-being and equality by embracing complexity‚ plurality and individualism with the aim to not overlook anything. Through his creation of the Capability Approach‚ Sen shows that his primary concern is to create a pluralistic conception of poverty and development
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| Verizon Wireless | Marketing Strategy Paper | | | Consumers need to communicate. But converting that need to the desire for certain types of communication requires skill. It also requires listening to what consumers want. Consumers demand for more cell phone and wireless services seems nearly unlimited‚ especially with the surge in social networking sites. This provides tremendous opportunities for Verizon Wireless. New products appear continually to feed that demand‚ such as increasingly
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AN ESSAY ON the OPTIONS FOR the ADF TO strike the correct balance between the development of a joint amphibious capability and the raising‚ training and sustaining of the rest of its suite of capabilities? By U5172061 Introduction The Department of Defence is currently facing one of the most challenging situations since its conception. On one hand‚ the environment suggests Australia is entering time of increased strategic competition between major powers in our region.1 This has the potential
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International Journal of Innovation Management Vol. 5‚ No. 3 (September 2001) pp. 377–400 © Imperial College Press DEVELOPING INNOVATION CAPABILITY IN ORGANISATIONS: A DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES APPROACH BENN LAWSON Department of Accounting‚ The University of Melbourne Victoria‚ 3010‚ Australia e-mail: blawson@unimelb.edu.au DANNY SAMSON Department of Management‚ The University of Melbourne Victoria‚ 3010‚ Australia e-mail: d.samson@unimelb.edu.au Received 1 February 2001 Revised 18
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Examine the advantages and challenges of developing a strategy for competitive advantage based on resources and capabilities. Illustrate your answer with appropriate examples. In lights of changing technical advancements‚ cut-throat competitions and unstable global economic conditions‚ managers need to consider strategies to sustain competitive advantage more frequently then ever. And no matter how organized their companies are and which industries they are working in‚ they can quickly start by
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A merger in 2000 between Bell Atlantic Corporation and GTE Corporation formed the present corporation known as Verizon Communications Incorporated with July 3‚ 2000 its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The logo‚ VZ‚ “was selected because it uses the two letters of the Verizon logo that graphically portray speed‚ while also echoing the genesis of the company name: veritas‚ the Latin word connoting certainty and reliability‚ and horizon‚ signifying forward-looking and visionary”
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Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/csr.251 Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: A ‘Dynamic Capabilities’ Perspective Venugopal Ramachandran* Insitute for Financial Management and Research‚ Chennai‚ India ABSTRACT In this paper‚ strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) is defined on the basis of Porter’s theory of competitive advantage. Two kinds of dynamic capabilities are proposed as the precursors to strategic CSR success and operationalized in terms of two sets of associated
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McDonald’s Organizational Capabilities A.) One of McDonald’s organizational capabilities is the emphasis they place on their leadership practices and the extensive leadership programs they offer. According to an article by Joan Gallos regarding McDonald’s leadership practices‚ “It starts with having high standards. When we talk about people being ‘ready now’ and ‘ready future’‚ the ‘ready now’ candidate has to be someone who can be better than the incumbent over time. And‚ if every time you have
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Verizon Communications‚ Inc. Executive Summary Verizon Communications‚ Inc. is based in the state of New York. Verizon is currently considered the leader in delivering broadband and other wireline and wireless communication innovations to mass market‚ business‚ government and wholesale customers. The corporation was formed on June 30‚ 2000‚ with the merger of Bell Atlantic Corp and GTE Corp and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on July 3‚ 2000 under the VZ symbol. Verizon Wireless’
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approaches to compete in their environment. Generic Strategies Verizon Wireless has been successful in achieving cost leadership and product differentiation at the same time. Verizon has interpreted cost leadership by owning their own cell phone towers‚ causing them to set a market price and avoiding price wars. However‚ they have taken a differentiation approach with their network services to customers. Differentiation helps Verizon reduce the threat of rivalry by making its service network appear
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