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Michael Porter's five forces model and its critiques in industry analysis

A popular tool for managers to analyze their external environments is the five forces analysis that was developed by Michael Porter. The five forces analysis rests on the assumption that a firm's ability to succeed is based largely on its pricing power.

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The telephone's impact on employment, communication, and society

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone, a device designed, in part, to facilitate communication for the hearing impaired.

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Paul Heck's analysis of Sufism's role within Islam

Sufism: What is it exactly? Paul Heck argues that Sufism is inextricably interwoven with the fabric of Islam on social, psychological, spiritual, and political levels. It is impossible to speak of Sufism without referring to Islam.

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Why the United States lacks universal health care coverage

The United States is the richest, most powerful nation in the world with the most expensive health care yet, the World Health Organization (WHO) ranked the U.S. 37th in the world for quality and fairness of health care (Reid, 2008).

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Evolution of the juvenile justice system in nineteenth-century America

The conception that children have unique needs and different levels of developmental maturity than adults do is relatively new. For centuries, children were treated in many ways as if they were nothing but "miniature adults," particularly when it came to issues of labor and criminal justice.

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Model analysis and cost-benefit analysis in urban transportation planning

In this way, model analysis is similar to scenario planning, by which stakeholders develop alternative concepts of a community's future and the implementation plans to realize those visions (Weiner, 2008).

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Corporate governance spillover effects in cross-border mergers and acquisitions

The practice of merging and acquiring new firms from different countries has greatly increased over the past fifteen years (Moeller and Schlingemann, 2005 as cited in Martynova and Renneboog, 2008).

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Cultural and relational factors in offshore information system projects

What has played the role of an important foundation in seeking to identify the driving forces behind the success of offshore IS project is the agency theory.

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Dog day care center with circus performer training services

Millions of people in the United States must go to work and leave their dog at home. Many owners either risk coming home to a destroyed house or messes due to separation anxiety. Other dogs must be housed in cages for long periods of time due to the need to prevent such occurrences.

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Audit independence and industry concentration: the New Century Financial case

KPMG served as the independent audit firm of several of the largest subprime mortgage lenders. Identify the advantage and disadvantages of a heavy concentration of audit clients in one industry or sub-industry

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