Online Growth Options for Retailers: Three Essays on Domestic and International Growth Strategies with Online Retailing

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 212-213
Author(s):  
Robert Vinaja
Keyword(s):  
Growth Options ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Online Retailing ◽  
International Growth

Emirates Dates: a case of growth strategy dilemma

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Syed Zamberi Ahmad ◽  
Abdul Rahim Abu Bakar
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Product Diversification ◽  
Growth Options ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Postgraduate Students

Subject area Strategic marketing, Business strategy, Product diversification strategy and/or Market entry strategy. Study level/applicability This case is useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students who are pursuing majors in marketing, business management and/or strategic management. Case overview The Emirates Dates Factory commenced operations in 1989 in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), as a 100 per cent equity held by Mr Abdullah Al Shamsi. Over time, it has become one of the best and renowned factory for date production and processing. Emirates Dates derives its strength from its own plantations in Ras Al Khaimah and Al Ain, as well as from a wide variety of date products that it develops, including date syrup, dates in different packing and stuffed dates. The company seeks to be the leader of dates production and processing in terms of sales. However, the management is facing issues pertaining to determining the area of growth that it should pursue. This case study illustrates the growth options that Emirates Dates could pursue along with its opportunities and challenges that the firm faces. Expected learning outcomes This case study expose student to Ansoff growth matrix in general and the application of the market penetration strategy in specific. Accordingly, the case illustrates how one could develop other growth strategies to improve its revenues through product diversification and/or market development. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 11: Strategy.

International growth strategies of service and manufacturing firms

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 968-990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravi Kathuria ◽  
Maheshkumar P. Joshi ◽  
Stephanie Dellande
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
International Growth

scholarly journals Nature and Extent of International Diversification: Empirical Evidence from India

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (28) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Meenu KHURANA ◽  
◽  
Aparna BHATIA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
World Bank ◽  
International Diversification ◽  
Recent Time ◽  
Geographical Region ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
International Growth ◽  
Classification Framework ◽  
Time Period ◽  
National Boundaries

The paper aims to measure the extent of international diversification achieved by Indian companies in the recent time period. The study also investigates the nature of international diversification of companies during their transition beyond national boundaries. This evaluation of the firm’s nature and extent of internationalization is further extended to cover the period of COVID-19 as well. The Jacquemin and Berry Entropy Approach (1979) is applied to operationalize the firm’s international diversification. It facilitates the measurement of both inter-region and intra-region diversification. World Bank Geographical Region Classification Framework (2018) has been used to facilitate the applicability of the approach applied. Results indicate that Indian companies were inclined to grow beyond their home territories. However, the extent of international diversification is low as ‘Internationally Low Diversification (ILD)’ reveals to be the most popular strategy amongst Indian companies. Nature depicts a preference for relatedness than unrelatedness for overseas expansion as firms prefer intra-region expansion as compared to moving inter-region. Stagnation and halt are witnessed in the global expansion of companies in the period of the pandemic. The present study is novel as it comprehensively evaluates the international growth strategies preferred by Indian companies in the pre-pandemic and the pandemic period.

OYO Rooms: providing affordable hotel stays

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Tripti Ghosh Sharma ◽  
Rohit Jain ◽  
Sahil Kapoor ◽  
Vijeyta Gaur ◽  
Abhishek Roy
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Service Recovery ◽  
Consumer Preference ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Growth Options ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Complaint Handling ◽  
Recovery Strategies

Subject area Strategic Marketing, Marketing Management, Services Marketing. Study level/applicability MBA and Executive MBA. Case overview The case talks about the inception and growth of OYO Rooms, a company that originally started as ORAVEL Stays Ltd. in 2012, as a platform for booking budget and premium accommodations, but graduated to become OYO Rooms, an online aggregator of hotels, with a unique business model of “managing the partial inventory of rooms” in hotels and offering a proposition of affordable, consistent, quality experience to business, leisure and pilgrim travellers. The company received rounds of funding from Greenoaks Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Sequoia Capital and DSG Consumer Partners. Moreover, unlike its competitors, OYO adapted itself to the fast-changing consumer preference and grew at an enviable pace and by 2016, was present across 190 cities through a network of 6,500 hotels. However, OYO Rooms had to face a multitude of challenges both from the consumer and hotel owners’ ends, primarily service quality concerns from the customers and majorly concerns out of payment irregularities or non-abidance to written contracts from the hoteliers’ end. The dissatisfaction levels increased to an extent that experts started raising questions on the viability of the business. OYO was growing at an aggressive rate but breakeven point was yet to be achieved. Moreover, growing dissatisfaction and switching amongst its customers as well as hoteliers threatened the very existence of the model. The case allows the students to critically analyse the strategies of OYO for deliberation on whether the business model was sustainable in the long run. It also encourages the students to deliberate on the possible growth strategies for OYO as also on the service recovery strategies for OYO. Expected learning outcomes The case has been positioned around the following modules: industry analysis; value of a two-sided business model to both parties; sustainability of a unique business model, against the challenges that it faces; applying the VRIO framework (resource-based view); complaint handling and service recovery strategies; applying the Ansoff’s grid for possible growth options. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 11: Strategy.

Genetik der Körperhöhe

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
Michael Hermanussen ◽  
Christiane Scheffler ◽  
Barry Bogin
Keyword(s):  
Peer Group ◽  
Competitive Growth ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Missing Heritability

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Noch immer gründen heutige Analysen genetischer Zwillings- und Familienstudien auf mathematischen Ansätzen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts, namentlich von Galton, Pearson und Fisher, und führen zu konventionellen Schätzwerten für die Heritabilität der Körperhöhe zwischen h² = 0,87 und h² = 0,93 bei Männern und zwischen h² = 0,68 und h² = 0,84 bei Frauen. Diese Werte sind wesentlich höher als moderne Schätzungen auf der Basis genomweiter Assoziationsstudien (GWAS), mit denen sich zwischen 12,3 % und 49 % der Körperhöhenvarianz im Erwachsenenalter erklären lassen. Diese so genannte „missing heritability“ gibt Anlass zu Missverständnissen. Diskussion Wir nehmen eine biokulturelle Perspektive ein, um Entwicklungsmerkmale zu verstehen, die nur auf den ersten Blick erblich erscheinen. Innerhalb sozialer Gruppen dient Körpergröße als Signal. Kompetitive Wachstumsstrategien (competitive growth strategies) und strategische Wachstumsanpassungen (strategic growth adjustments) insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Gefahr, aus einer führenden sozialen Rolle verdrängt zu werden (threat of being displaced) sind bei sozialen Säugern beschrieben und spielen sehr wahrscheinlich auch in menschlichen Sozialstrukturen eine wesentliche Rolle. Die Körperhöhe eines Menschen hängt von der Körperhöhe anderer Mitglieder seiner Peer Group ab. Im vergangenen Jahrhundert wurden Körperhöhentrends von bis zu 20 cm in manchen Populationen beobachtet (säkulare Trends). Dies ist Ausdruck von phänotypischer Plastizität und war Galton, Pearson und Fisher unbekannt. Schlussfolgerung Die beschriebene „missing heritability“ für Körperhöhe spiegelt die Diskrepanz zwischen moderner Wissenschaft und überholten Vermengungen von deterministischen und politischen Ideen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts wider.

An Alternative Approach to International Growth Investing

CFA Digest ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-92
Author(s):  
William H. Sackley
Keyword(s):  
International Growth ◽  
Alternative Approach

Amiya Kumar Bagchi. The Political Economy of Underdevelopment. London: Cambridge University Press. 1982. Reprint 1983. pp.viii+276. List of books for further reading; Index. Price: £ 8.50 (paperback edition).

1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Zia Ul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Third World

Amiya Kumar Bagchi, an eminent economist of the modern Cambridge tradition, has produced a timely treatise, in a condensed form, on the development problems of the Third World countries. The author's general thesis is that economic development in the developing societies necessarily requires a radical transformation in the economic, social and political structures. As economic development is actually a social process, economic growth should not be narrowly defined as the growth of the stock of rich capitalists. Neither can their savings be equated to capital formation whose impact on income will presumably 'trickle down' to the working classes. Economic growth strategies must not aim at creating rich elites, because, according to the author, "maximizing the surplus in the hands of the rich in the Third World is not, however, necessarily a way of maximizing the rate of growth".

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