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    1.2.3 Uppsala Model/Internationalisation Process However, “The Uppsala Internationalisation Model” (Johanson & Vahlne, 1977, 1990), argues that organisations grow through incremental or gradual process by gradually increasing their internationalisation activities as they gain more experience and learning. Organisation they believe commit more resources as they gain more knowledge a certain market by first investing in close psychic distant market, (Banalieva & Santoro, 2009; B Elango, 1998; Balasubramanian

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    perceive that its attributes have better utility than its competitors. For example, a Rolex watch has attributes—such as design, styling, performance, and reliability—that customers perceive as being superior to the same attributes in many other watches. Thus, we can refer to a Rolex as a high-quality product Innovation Innovation refers to the act of creating new products or processes. There are two main types of innovation: product innovation and process innovation. Product innovation is developing

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    The Cost Price = Sales

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    instead of generally just as contending in the same one. 4) Economics of scales: Firms that can exploit a scope of economies of scale, for example, cost reserve funds connected with marketing and technology. Economies of degree are additionally accessible to firms that merger and are advantages connected with utilizing the settled resources of one firm to create yield for the other firm. A merger empowers the firm to be more beneficial and have more noteworthy assets for innovative work. Cons 1)

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    of the firm (Tolbert & Hall, 2009, p. 162). The elements can include items such as size and technology, as it relates to customer demand to name a few. Another example might be that a small firm would function better in a centralized fashion verses a large firm that would benefit more from a decentralized method, whereas, fast paced environments may require high technology and slow paced industries do not. The point here is that there is not one best practice for leading or structuring a firm, hence

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    taken positions at other firms. There needs to be a system in place to develop and foster relationships for these individuals within the firm. This firm has a high turnover rate of new hires; currently, the turnover rate is 85%. Firms that are considered the Big Four are offering mentoring programs that make their employees invested in the company’s future. Unfortunately, if ALW does not start to compete with this issue, more employees will be lost to the Big Four Firms. Implementing a strong mentoring

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    among partners and between the management of the firm and its partners. The necessity of rules and procedures should be carefully examined, and there should be a distinct bias against controls on partner behaviour. Communicated expectations are more effective generally than proscriptions. In a milieu of trust, however, there must be the capacity to sanction behaviour amounting to a lack of trust. Moreover, a trusting firm does not have to be a firm which is "sleep walking." However, it must have the

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    profitability affecting the customer satisfaction. Research attempts to analyse the effect of past profitability on customer satisfaction. Considering this aspect, following hypothesis is proposed: H2: A firms past

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    innovations that influence the profitability of work and capital .the improvement and appropriation of these advances influence the firm in a few ways. The effect of worker's new technique depends, to a huge degree, on firm conduct and industry structure. For instance, an efficiency upgrading innovation empowers the firm to lessen creation costs. Other innovation permit the firm to build its yield nature of given an underlying arrangement of info .assume an innovation grew, ,for example, another composts

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    guarantees rises on firms’ productivity? Introduction Centralization can be explained by that “authority to make important decisions lies towards the ‘head’ or centre of an organization” (Cummings, 1995), the decision-making actions are usually done by the top managers in hierarchical pyramid. While Decentralization, on the contrary, aims on raising employee empowerment and let the ‘low level’ manager engages in decision-making. In the modern market circumstances, most of the firms adopt centralization

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    SYNOPSIS In the United States, the fast food market provides consumers quick meals at a reasonable cost. It has grown significantly in recent years with an 8.7% average annual growth rate throughout the 1980’s. The concept of the industry, providing healthy alternatives to traditional fast food and being environmentally sound is the latest example how consumers affect the industry. The companies must be able to change very quickly in order to meet these customer demands and the changing environment

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