Strategy, innovation and change: case studies on competitiveness

Este livro sobre estratégia, inovação e mudança aborda diversas áreas – áreas tais como a simulação, a tecnologia, a internacionalização, o outsourcing, a integração vertical, a liderança, a gestão de recursos humanos, a educação, as aquisições, a cultura (nacional e corporativa), o marketing, a responsabilidade social corporativa, a inovação, o empreendedorismo e os modelos de negócio. A estratégia, quer da perspetiva da formulação, quer da perspetiva da implementação (figura 1), torna-se um imperativo em tempos de grande evolução tecnológica e mudança. Em que mercados devo competir? Qual a abordagem melhor para o mercado? Quem serão os meus competidores? Como deverei organizar a minha empresa? Quais são as minhas forças e quais são as minhas fraquezas, a nível interno? Quais são as oportunidades e quais são as ameaças presentes no ambiente externo? Quem serão os melhores clientes para os meus produtos e serviços? Como deverei organizar-me para maximizar a minha reputação entre os meus stakeholders? Que tipo de ferramentas de conceção estratégica poderei usar para ajudar o meu negócio a crescer de forma sustentada? Os capítulos deste livro, cada um retratando uma realidade diferente, procuram fornecer soluções para estas e outras questões pertinentes, para estrategas nacionais e também internacionais. (...

International monetary and exchange rate policies and world agricultural markets: the case of soybeans and soybean products

The main objective of the study is to quantitatively evaluate the effects of a monetary policy change by a given country on the world soybean and products markets. A system of bilateral exchange rate equations is incorporated into a multi-country nonspatial price equilibrium model of world soybean and products markets. The bilateral exchange rate equations are based on a stock-flow approach to exchange rate determination and do not require either the purchasing power parity nor the interest parity conditions to hold. In addition, exchange rate expectations are endogenized in the model using an extrapolative, quasi-rational approach. The regional soybean, soymeal, and soyoil submodels are linked through price transmission equations and trade flow identities;The model is estimated using a nonlinear, two-stage least squares estimator. A set of dynamic simulations of a change in U.S. monetary policy are conducted. The simulations account for the effects of monetary policy on the general price levels in each country as well as the joint product effects. In the dynamic simulations, a one percent, sustained increase in the growth rate of U.S. money supply (M1) was simulated over the period of flexible exchange rates (1971-1982);The dynamic policy simulation analysis provides strong evidence of a significant impact of a change in U.S. monetary policy on the U.S. and world soybean and products markets over the long run. The simulated expansion in the growth rate of U.S. money supply resulted in higher real prices and exports of soybeans and joint products in the U.S., lower real prices and higher imports of soybeans and products in importing countries, and lower real prices and exports of soybeans and products by U.S. export competitors. Furthermore, the monetary effects tended to be larger for the joint products (soymeal and soyoil) than for the primary product (soybeans) in all trading countries. Ignoring the global inflationary adjustments to a U.S. monetary policy change tends to over-estimate the impacts of monetary policy on U.S. markets over time. Finally, the study provides strong evidence that ignoring the simultaneous interaction of a primary commodity and its joint products tends to seriously overestimate the effects of a change in monetary policy on the primary commodity and to underestimate the effects on the joint products

Non-financial motivations in mergers and acquisitions: The Fiat–Ferrari case

Most studies of mergers and acquisitions focus on the financial motivations (‘synergy’) of the acquiring and acquired firms, as well as managers’ self-interest and overconfidence. Few studies consider the contextual contingencies that motivate a merger and acquisition. This study examines non-financial motivations that drove the 1969 Fiat company’s acquisition of the Ferrari company. The financial records and historical context surrounding this acquisition are analysed through an institutional logics framework, examining annual reports, minutes of board meetings and media coverage of the acquisition. The findings suggest the acquisition was driven by family control, brand reputation and professional expertise, and that financial and accounting motivations had only marginal importance

Volume 30, Number 01 (January 1912)

Italy, the Home of Grand Opera (interview with Enrico Caruso) Interpretation of Beethoven\u27s Piano Masterpieces Progress in Piano Playing (interview with Josef Holmann) Beginnings of Opera Ten Most Famous Opera Singers of the Last Century Should American Opera Aspirants Study Abroad? Bel Canto: The Foundation of All Successful Operatic Singing (interview with Bernice de Pasquali) Prolific Opera Composer Improving Arpeggio Chord Playing Last Work of Wagner, Parsifal Mystery of the Lethbridge Strad $10,000 Stradivarius Violin Demolished by Unknown Fanatichttps://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/1575/thumbnail.jp

A study of some aspects of the life and works of Abraham De Smidt (1829-1908) surveyor-general of the Cape Colony, with particular reference to the Cape Fine Arts Exhibitions between 1851 and 1890

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