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Business Strategy

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction Going beyond the current trends in the business literature on strategic alliances, this paper explores ways strategic alliances are helping organizational firms gain competitive edge, more particularly through opening the access to markets and eventually in the creation of knowledge. This is followed by analysis of issues surrounding strategic alliances, current business examples and challenges faced by organizations that form alliances. Finally, we conclude with a brief take on the future of strategic partnership and knowledge creation research.

The Meaning of Strategic Alliance

Since becoming a trend three decades ago, ...

Business Strategy

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction In today’s business landscape, creating sustainable value for customers and shareholders requires the initiation of an alliance strategy. Strategic alliances are alternative modes of global business operations that small to large enterprises are considering in order to achieve stronger and more effective market presence. Moreover, alliances are a fact of life for business, which needs to align present and future strategy to current radical technological and structural changes, globalization, and increased competitive pressures (Janczak, 2008). Meanwhile, the issues of trust, partner selection, and the ...

Executive Summary

Family businesses have been making vital contributions to the British economy and the forecast indicates even more in the coming years. A typical family business in UK, Associated British Foods plc, has been performing consistently well for over 100 years. The company has built up portfolios in Sugar, Agriculture, Retail, Grocery and Ingredients segments and owns many of the most famous food brands. Starting with bakery products, the company has diversified into the other segments mostly by prudent acquisitions. The models generally used for analysing family businesses, namely the three circle model, the 12S model and the business canvas ...

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

Thomas Nast stereotypes the Irish as

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889 For reporting the ...

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Introduction

The purpose and scope of this paper is to evaluate the leadership potentials that assisted Barack Obama to become president of United States in the year 2008. During, American antiquity there has been many significant leaders who have carried impartiality, self-determination, and transformation to its country. Several great leaders and lastly the head of the state of the USA Barack Obama, there have been many countless individuals who have completed history. As the first Black culture to turn ...

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Introduction Creativity is a significant matter in organization study (Shalley et al., 2004). Growing worldwide competition, together with fast moving tools has made companies more susceptible to catastrophe than at several times earlier.

Definition of Creativity

The Encyclopaedia Britannica states creativity as the skill to yield something innovative through creative proficiency, whether a novel explanation of a problem, an innovative way or stratagem, or a new creative item or method”. Amiable (1997, 1998) describes creativity as the method elaborate in evolving an impression for a ...

Genre: Suspense

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak Objective Analysis: (give a few examples and provide text to support your examples) Visual component (such as the art direction, camera angles and movement, cinematography, lighting, visual style, etc.): Hitchcock’s visual style is tense and scary, with great use of focus and top-down shots to get the feeling of Jimmy Stewart’s “vertigo.” The visual style of the opening sequence is dreamlike and unsettling, as is the dream sequence he has halfway through the movie. It really gives the feeling of losing your grip on reality. ...

Wolf of Wall Street is an American black comedy movie based on Jordan Belfort. It is directed by Martin Scorsese, and the screenplay is written by Terence Winter. It was released on 25th December 2013 a film based on the true story of Jordan Belfort. Jordan is portrayed as wealthy stock-broker who lives large, spends a lot of money, and lives an exceedingly high life, until he falls due to involvement in corruption, crime, and federal government. It is a very funny and entertaining movie that features other characters including; Margot Robbie, Jonah Hill, Matthew Mc Conaughey, Rob Reiner, Kyler Chandler, John ...

Introduction

Multiculturalism is the doctrine that several distinct cultures can co-exist peacefully one country as opposed to one national culture. No other country in the world exemplifies multiculturalism better than the USA. The country’s 317 million people spread across its 50 states comprise of people from all cultures (Healey, 12). Going by historical assertions, the USA was discovered by Christopher Columbus- who was an Italian navigator, explorer and colonizer. Columbus was one among many people from different nationalities and cultures who settled in the USA since its early days. As early as 1500 AD, the USA had played host ...

It is clear that no martial arts would ever need to be banned from a sport that has been calling itself "Mixed Martial Arts." Different to what the opening scene to the first episode of the show called "The Ultimate Fighter: Live" mentions that, the sport of Mixed Martial Arts is something that is considered to be beyond just Boxing, Wrestling Muay Thai, and Jiu-Jitsu. When Mixed Martial Arts first started, the sport was not even looked as Mixed Martial Arts at all, because all that was contained within the "mix" was a list that was full of fighters who were ...

Abstract

Drug addiction is not only common in men but also in women. However, it does not happen accidentally. Certain factors influence women’s engagement in drug initiation and even addiction: natural physical susceptibility; personality measure of women; peer relationships; family relationships; marital relationships; social media and marketing; discrimination; acculturation; socioeconomic condition; and victimization in sex and prostitution. These factors have different influencing ways upon women. Likewise, the effects these have upon women have varying degrees as well. Seeing these factors does not only imply knowledge of the issue, but brings forth the need to deal with it. The ...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is also characteristically honest: "There ...

Tonight, I am honored and privileged to introduce our guest of honor and recipient of our Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovation. If you have a flair for clothes, then this man’s name has probably been somewhere on your body! During his long and distinguished career, our guest has rewritten the rules of the fashion world, and in the process, been a role model and mentor for many designers who have revolutionized this industry. For seven decades, he has worked with and for every member of the Who’s Who in Fashion. Our guest of honor was born in ...

The greatest discovery ever made on our planet is here. At Jade news, we have a young woman who is an anthropologist working at Jade University. She is here to give us some discoveries about the planet earth. There are quite a lot of interesting things that she has to say about the planet, but her main caution is that the earth is not a safe place for us to visit. I am Melotica. Some few days ago when looking through my window, I saw a newspaper that supposedly came from earth. Its contents made me grow weary of the planet earth ...

The greatest discovery ever made on our planet is here. At Jade news, we have a young woman who is an anthropologist working at Jade University. She is here to give us some discoveries about the planet earth. There are quite a lot of interesting things that she has to say about the planet, but her main caution is that the earth is not a safe place for us to visit. I am Melotica. Some few days ago when looking through my window, I saw a newspaper that supposedly came from earth. Its contents made me grow weary of the planet earth ...

Analysis - Giovanni Boccaccio, "The Onset of the Black Death"

Boccaccio's Decameron is a masterpiece of early 14th century European literature; its bawdiness and its sheer wit are a wonderful, funny indicator of what life was like in 14th century Italy. However, the central framing device of the book itself - the Black Plague, which ravaged Europe around the time of the book's setting and publication - plays a somber but vital role in this important work. The importance of the plague to the story is no less evident than in the introduction, which demonstrates the awesome power of the sickness. Boccaccio's account of the plague during the time it hit Florence ...

Imaging protocols plays an important role in both patient's management and research purposes. Major imaging systems in medical practice include: radiography, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine (Scintigraphy, PET and SPECT), photo acoustic imaging, breast thermography, tomography and ultrasound. Most of those imaging systems play a significant role in providing a form of non-invasive diagnostic and treatment protocols. This article reviews a type of magnetic resonance imaging known as magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). MRI is a radiological investigative technique for visualizing detailed internal structures. It allows for the production of detailed pictures of internal organs and tissues. Exposing the patient to radio waves in a ...

Ceramic and porcelain tiles – the case for and against

The whole point of the argument for Porcelain against Ceramic tiles is that the former is far more classy and far more vociferous in its’ eventual appearance.

Designs can also be incorporated into several visions much as what can be seen in some historic uses of such tiles. Ceramic tiles obviously lend themselves slightly better to proceedings as they seem to have more artistic flair although porcelain is more durable.

Porcelain is the more durable tile and when one considers Japanese ceramics, there is everything here which is beautiful and artistic. The Japanese have a considerable flair for such things ...

Apocalypto, 2006 is a movie directed by Mel Gibson. It is set during the age of the Mayan civilization in Mexico. It tells of the time when the Mayan civilization was declining and the rulers recommend offering human sacrifices and building of more temples to appease their gods and restore the civilization to prosperity.

Apocalypto outlines the tale Jaguar Paw, whose village is attacked by Mayans seeking slaves for human sacrifice. He hides his son and pregnant wife in a deep hole and is unfortunately captured. He is spared from sacrifice by an eclipse and has to struggle to survive. He ...