1. From your understanding of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, explain how you feel it may negatively affect America’s stock exchanges. The higher than expected costs for many public companies caused some companies to abandon their public status. The costs of SOX compliance negatively affect companies, markets, investors, and economic growth. Fewer companies are willing to enter the market because of the SOX requirements that make going public too costly.
The increase in sells in the iPhone also led to the increase in sales with the iPad as well. This really solidifies why the record company will not settle for the flat pricing price of Apple policy. Apple ability to control the download of music will definitely not work if Apple doesn’t allow for more flexible pricing. Apple must understand without music to download then there is know extra incentives or revenue that helps them maintain those increases in sales with their iPhones, iPods, or iPads. Apple future with downloads will be just find
In my opinion, Ben & Jerry’s does not possess any resources that could give the company a sustained competitive advantage in Japan. In order to determine whether or not Ben & Jerry’s actually has a competitive advantage, I had to perform a VRIO framework (exhibit 1) first to see whether or not Ben & Jerry’’s has resources or capabilities controlled by a firm as source of competitive advantage. All of the resources that could give the company competitive advantage in Japan are valuable but it is important to understand which ones are rare and how hard is to imitate them, since this is the factor that determines what is and what is not a source of a competitive advantage. I listed the resources that I believe are important for Ben & Jerry’s. The resources that matters the most are the ones that are hard to imitate which are the recipe for the ice cream and its unique variety of chunks, the logo as a quality symbol, its socially responsible image and its brand name in general.
As Sainsbury's have a hierarchical structure they are most likely to lose a lot of money because for the marketing and research and development departments to carry out their functions they would need funding from the finance department. For this information to get to the finance department a lot of time would have been wasted and also for the finance department to reply to them, all this would cost them a lot of money. Advantages of Sainsbury's is that the power they have would be successful for the business as when work is being done the communication of the workers together when given commands from the manager and having to work better for the manager to impress them in order for more work to be done and at a more well-organized rate then if there was no pressure from the manager. Disadvantages would be that the workers would start to get stressed from having to complete the workload at too fast a pace for them to work at all times that they will start to work less and dislike there job and some days may not want to work as they are stressed to do work which is too much for them to cope as they are trying too hard to impress, this could lead to employees wanting to quit their job. Advantages are that when having to complete work set out by the manager to the employees it can be done efficiently so that the manager will be able to assess the employee and they could get a promotion to a higher part of their job.
While diversity is built in the Wal-Mart culture of business the locals of South Korea did not agree with the taste or style of western merchandise proclaims David Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer of Productive Environment Inc., (2004). According to David Schwartz proper research was not conducted in order to target a large population such as South Korea, therefore lack of culture would hinder the company of a successful launch in Asian countries such as Korea, China or Japan. Stakeholders The Sustainability Report of 2007 suggest social responsibility of the company is the ability
Mattel faced problem in the Middle East about religious and social grounds. Parents and religious leaders think Barbie is odd with their culture value and Arab girl’s reality is different from Barbie. In Brazil, Barbie has competition from local rival which has lower price and more realistic. However, Mattel found that they did not need a total overhaul their product to be successful, For example, Mattel launched Barbie with a painted head spot and dressed in Sari with universal Barbie in India. Moreover, Mattel fought competitors in Japan by joining forces with Bandai, Japan’s largest toy company.
While the strategy for RIM as per their annual report is valid, it is susceptible to criticism because Blackberries are great for email and phone calls but the consumer is looking for a device that goes beyond these capabilities and enhances their productivity from a personal and professional standpoint. It fails to focus on the consumer’s requirements for a smart phone or tablet product. Challenges for RIM: 1. According to recent news reports, Black Berry maker Research In Motion Ltd. will avoid a trial with Visto Corp. after a Canadian court ruled the privately held California-based company infringed on three RIM patents. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Visto "threw in the towel,'' Ronald Dimock, a lawyer for RIM, told Bloomberg News.
New Technology i. Apple and it’s iPhone revolutionizing industry ii. AT&T and Verizon’s devices to compete with iPhone iii. Why AT&T and Verizon devices won’t compete with iPhone c. Struggling Companies i. Motorola struggles because of poor advances in technology and is getting pressured to sell ii. Three choices Sprint/Nextel and Motorola have to be successful again iii. Changes Sprint/Nextel are making for prior poor management decisions iv.
Disadvantage: * Technical evaluation after price negotiation causes an unfair price competition during auction between high quality suppliers and low quality suppliers. Suppliers with low quality may have lower cost structure comparing to high quality suppliers. Without setting the quality standard before the auction, it is likely that the auction winner may not be able to meet Casturn’s technical evaluation. * The cross-function time at step 5 have veto power. Even though this practice reduces the chance of making a bad re-sourcing decision, it wastes lots of time and energy from CMC and engineer team, and may discourage nominated supplier.
Opportunities Articles of development of mature Japanese residents might be the choice for Louis Vuitton, like richer people together with mature ladies with greater purchasing control, though creating the Internet industry, request for the android phones and as well disbursing the fresher variety of merchandises for men in addition to kids might be the next stage for increasing development inside the Japanese Luxury market. Challenges Deviations inside the Japanese culture together with attitude have been the largest test for Louis Vuitton. The new generations do not have related ideas as previous individuals together with low financial background they are less significant to be motivated to accepting the extraordinary costs, which is previously established interest. Though, given that the excellence at the competitive