The foremost important competitive advantage arising from OFDI in this survey is the increasing familiarity and experience in international business (exposure to foreign culture and business practices) that becomes a firm specific asset.

Provide business opportunities (vendor rationalization by eliminating non competitive firms and fostering competitive ones)

Porter, M.E. (1990), The Competitive Advantage of Nations, Free Press, New York.

Look, mister, I'm in a very competitive business.

In particular, it should identify whether the increased failure rates of SMEs result from a lack of competitive advantage or from a lack of adequate business support mechanisms (whether public or private) and or underdevelopment of business service infrastructure.

Namibia has also started to successfully exploit the competitive advantage in grape production alongside the Orange River.

However, in order for it to take advantage of export markets, its industry needed to become more competitive.

Evolution does a really, really good job of deselecting traits that aren't advantageous to us and selecting traits for competitive advantage.

Evolution does a really, really good job of deselecting traits that aren't advantageous to us and selecting traits for competitive advantage.

Globalization of business and finance compels us to become more competitive through greater openness and transparency.

And so today, I'm going to show you four, because I hope to have a competitive advantage at the end of this, still.

We especially emphasize areas of great relevance to Africa's development, because, in those areas, scientists working in Africa will have a competitive advantage.

Given that luxury goods provide individuals with a competitive advantage, higher luxury goods sales could indicate a brighter economic future for a country.

Since TML cannot maintain its competitive advantage without having a competitive vendor base, a three pronged approach to beneficial development and upgrading of its suppliers was developed to ensure an efficient process flow within the value chain

In this context, a key policy challenge is to set priorities and focus on niches where they could have a comparative or competitive advantage.

The Australia Thailand agreement, for instance, contains a definition of the anti competitive practices to be proscribed these include business conduct or transactions that adversely affect competition, such as anti competitive horizontal arrangements between competitors misuse of market power, including predatory pricing anti competitive vertical arrangements and anti competitive mergers and acquisitions.

However, developing countries can only convert their competitive advantage into increased market shares if markets function in a way that is not impeded by distortions.

451. The branches of industrial production in which women are most frequently employed centre on those in which they have greater competitive advantage than men.

The quality of such a working relationship might be a competitive advantage for a country in its own right in a globalizing and liberalizing world economy.

Firms in these industries locate strategically, according to where they can secure a competitive advantage vis a vis other firms in specific regional or global markets.

The quality of such a working relationship might be a competitive advantage for a country in its own right in a globalizing and liberalizing world economy.

At first sight, it seems counterintuitive that companies would want to share data and potentially give away competitive advantages. But this presupposes that the possession of such data does indeed imply a competitive advantage, and that a closed operating model is financially sustainable.

Competitive markets would ensure the best allocation of resources according to comparative advantage, securing the export revenues to import capital and intermediate goods to ensure faster growth.

Finished goods are increasingly subject to multi country and multi industry interventions, with individual enterprises in different countries specializing in specific production stages, according to their competitive advantage.

The first is to give business enterprises a competitive edge, and the second is to develop organization wide communications to facilitate sound management.

Article 48 The Company shall make detailed analysis on the general situation of the competition pattern in the industry as well as its position, its competitive advantage and disadvantage.

In the absence of a fully competitive banking sector, lenders demand high interest rates and security which is often not available to small business or agricultural producers. Business growth requires ready access to credit.

(b) Projects which, in addition to specific technical training, include training modules on general work skills and on practical skills required by a competitive business context

With regard to implementation of the medium term programme framework for 2006 2009, UNIDO should assist developing countries in exploiting their competitive advantage by linking local production chains and strengthening the SME sector.

I'm a social psychologist. I study prejudice, and I teach at a competitive business school, so it was inevitable that I would become interested in power dynamics.

13. The Secretary General sees some advantage to improving representation in the Council by including non governmental organizations, the media and members of the business community.

Once teaching reduces, if not eliminates, the original competitive advantage associated with a piece of research, academics and their funders are forced to seek new sources of advantage by producing new knowledge. In the process, the larger public those not involved in the original production of new knowledge benefit through classroom instruction.

The pathfinding initiatives involved have to survive and succeed in bureaucratic environments not used to the business like, dynamic, speedy and competitive demands of the modern commercial environment.

National competitive examinations

Cheap energy provides a powerful incentive for energy intensive industries from steel and glass to chemicals and pharmaceuticals to locate in the US. In fact, the decreased cost of manufacturing in America, combined with the country s business friendly regulations, strong rule of law, and political stability, will eliminate the competitive advantage that has driven China s rapid economic growth over the last several decades.

You should take advantage of that. Take advantage of it?

Hong Kong and Singapore have played their cards astutely. The combination of an Asian market with strong Chinese connections and a system of English law and property rights continues to provide a powerful competitive advantage.

Good telecommunications infrastructure is vital to accommodate the numerous new applications (e.g. the Internet) available to enable enterprises to access and take advantage of international business opportunities.

In its research report, Citibank said that the vigorous growth of JD.com in operating profit margin and the gross margin of self operated business has embodied the advantage of JD.com's core business, which will exist for a long time to come.

The process of globalization had largely affected the business environment for SMEs, and it was becoming increasingly important for firms to become internationally competitive, if they were to survive.

Audiovisual services Certain business practices of distributors of audiovisual services give rise to concern about possible anti competitive behaviour, especially due to the vertical linkages between producers and distributors.

Mutual advantage

The new knowledge produced by original research is an instance of social capital formation. It results from academics and funders collaborating on projects that aim to increase the competitive advantage of each in their respective domains.

The competitive advantage of TNCs from developed countries often stems from the possession of superior process or product technology that at the same time is a key ingredient to economic development (as acknowledged in the MDGs).

A host of factors, in addition to technology, affect the competitive advantage of enterprises. These include labour costs and skills, financing, trade barriers, exchange rate fluctuations, marketing know how, production flexibility, and collaborative arrangements among firms.