Ouverture de 'Intangible Assets & Global Competition'

Since the early 80s, the global economy has radically changed companies, manufacturing system and products. Global managerial economics demands ramified, far-flung and strongly interconnected organisations (networks). These complex structures favour knowledge management skills, competitive alliances and outsourcing agreements (with co-makers and external partners). Market-space competition also emphasises global economies of scale, whose value does not depend on the level of exploitation of elementary manufacturing factors but on the 'intensity of sharing' of specific resources in a networking system. In highly competitive markets, therefore, lasting corporate development does not depend primarily on the volumes of individual products (easily imitated in their tangible characteristics). In fact, corporate success on global markets is conditioned more by the level of sophistication of the intangible assets, developed, maintained and even modified, with targeted spending and investment plans.Intangible Assets; Global Managerial Economics; Global Competition; Global Economies of Scale; Knowledge Management; Competitive Alliances

Boston University Chamber Orchestra, October 28, 2003

This is the concert program of the Boston University Chamber Ensemble performance on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Symphony No. 1, Op. 21 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Concerto Grosso in A minor, RV 522 by Antonio Vivaldi, and Ouverture, Scherzo, und Finale, Op. 52 by Robert Schumann. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Génératrice à aimants permanents à flux axial à grand diamètre avec entrefer immergé

Cette étude propose une méthode de modélisation et de conception adaptée aux machines à flux axial et à Double Stator (poly-entrefer) destinée à être intégrée comme génératrice pour une hydrolienne RIM-DRIVEN de grande puissance. La particularité du concept RIM-DRIVEN ou à entrainement circonférentiel réside dans le fait que la machine électrique se situe sur la périphérie de l’hélice. De plus, dans cette étude, l’entrefer de la machine est considéré immergé dans l’eau de mer. Les particularités du système imposent de mettre au point des modèles de dimensionnement adaptés. Ainsi, un modèle électromagnétique analytique 2D inversé permettant le calcul des dimensions géométriques principales est présenté. De même, un modèle thermique spécifique aux machines à entrefer immergé est décrit. Ces modèles permettent d’estimer la masse et le coût des parties actives. Cette machine à flux axial est comparée en termes de coûts matières, masses et comportement thermique avec une machine à flux radial à aimants permanents dimensionnée pour un même cahier des charges. Il en ressort clairement que la machine à flux axial double stator est thermiquement moins contrainte que les machines à simple stator

Product Differentiation Costs and Global Competition

The growing competitive intensity on the markets determines the emergence of competition costs that are expressed at a corporate level and have implicit repercussions for the supply system. This type of costs makes it possible to identify a close link between competition costs and supply differentiation costs. Classification by competitive intensity presupposes that the analysis performed identifies the classification of company costs as the discriminating element, in terms of the competitive pressure of the context in which the firm operates. The emergence of competition costs is linked to an attempt to squeeze them as an aspect of vertical, or more specifically, horizontal cooperation strategies.Product Differentiation; Differentiation Costs; Over-Supply; Global Competition; Marketing; Market-Driven Management; Global Corporations; Global Markets DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4468/2005.1.06garbelli

Ouverture de "Marketing Channels and Global Markets"

An over-supply condition and the global markets favour a 'widespread selectivity' of consumption, and they require, on the one hand, new rules for competition between manufacturers, and on the other, they also stimulate new marketing channels strategies, as an economic and relational entity as a whole. From this point of view, it is important first analyse some key issues relating to marketing channels, and then focusing attention on certain aspects, such as innovation, the impact of technology on the consumer buying process and on his own buying habits, and finally the extension of the retailers offer to non-core services, particularly financial services.Marketing Channels; Global Markets; Over-Supply; Channel Innovation; Buyer Behaviour; Retail Financial Services