Resources & capabilities Which resources & capabilities may result in a competitive advantage ? Evaluate a specific position a firm has in the resources & capabilities space with the VRIO framework: Valuable, Rare, Inimitable, Organized to capture value.
How might a firm’s management decide whether it should continue to invest in current known technology or in new, but untested technology?
Management Lab® Go to mymanagmentlab.com for the following Assisted-graded writing questions: 5-1. How does the Resource-Based View of the Firm provide a superior means of evaluating a company’s competitive advantage? 5-2. Explain how using an IFAS table impacts the understanding of a company’s internal resources and capabilities? 5-3. How does the resource-based view of firms […]
What is your assessment of Olymel current strategy and performance?
1. What is your assessment of Olymel current strategy and performance? 2. Perform an environmental assessment in the form of a PESTEL and five forces analysis of the pork industry. Use the Porter Worksheet as a tool (see Blackboard). What are the biggest areas of strategic opportunities and threats in the environment? 3. Perform an […]
Using examples and support from wider reading, critically discuss the challenges for global companies of both maintaining legitimacy and ensuring financial performance through their CSR activities.
SECTION A. Answer ONE question. 1.a) Porter and Kramer (2006) argue that “the prevailing approaches to CSR are so disconnected from business as to obscure many of the opportunities for companies to benefit society”. Critically discuss this statement focusing on the debate between the shareholder and stakeholder models of corporate governance in relation to the […]