management accounting and control (Buget)

Coursework assignment: write a 2,500 word essay on the following topic:

 

“The budget has historically played center stage in most organizations’ systems of management control (Otley, 1994). However, recently it has been the subject of considerable criticism (Hansen et al., 2003). Budgeting has been deemed ‘broken’ (Jensen, 2001), ‘a thing of the past’ (Gurton, 1999), or an ‘unnecessary evil’ (Wallander, 1999)” 

(Libby & Lindsay, 2010: 56).

 

The Hunger games

This week you will write your first draft of our first essay, an illustration/example essay. In this weekly folder is a folder called “Essay requirements, submission and rubric” and it will have all the material for the essay inside. The folder includes the essay requirements/guidelines(also in downloadable formats), the rubric I will use to grade the final drafts, and also the assignment submission link where you will need to submit your first draft as an attached file.

This is a specific type of essay and it has specific rules. The type of thesis statement I require is also known as a tripartite thesis, because it has to have three points (called blueprint points in the video).

Make sure you have completed  the MyLabs assignments and watched the video on the thesis statement  in this folder before you carefully read the assignment guidelines and step-by-step instruction and begin to write your first draft. Please understand what a “First draft” is, some people confuse that with a “rough” draft. That is not the case for this course. A first draft needs to be as good an essay as you can make it, so that revision suggestions are meaningful and lead to a better essay and therefore to a better grade.

There are  step-by step instructions for this essay in this folder that tell you exactly what you need to do. In order to get the maximum points for the assignment you need to follow them. Failure to do so might result in a loss of points. It is your responsibility to read all the course material and follow the guidelines. Also, let me remind you that it might be a good idea to use spell check. Admittedly, it will not catch every error, but it can and will help you with some spelling issues or typos.

In this folder, I have also provided you with the rubric I will use to grade your final drafts. I provide the rubric so you can see exactly what it is I am looking for when grading and you can make sure you achieve the maximum points in each category. Please take some time to look at the rubric to see what is expected.

All essays we will write in this course will need to be typed and saved as a Microsoft Word file which carries a .doc or .docx extension and needs to be attached in the appropriate place in the weekly folder. Make sure you save your first draft of your essay on a flash stick or on your computer where you can access it again. This essay will go through a revision process and it is much easier to do so from the original document instead of having to retype it each time you revise.If you do not have a thesis statement with your three points in your essay I will deduct 25 points of the possible 50 points for your first draft!
IMPORTANT — Essay Instructions– READ!

This is your first essay assignment for the semester. All essays will have something to do with the book The Hunger Games which you just have finished reading. At times the essay will be directly related to the book, at other times we will use the story of the book as a backdrop for our writing.

This essay assignment is an Illustration/Example essay which is a specific type of essay. The purpose of this essay is to explain or illustrate something by using examples. Please make sure you have read Chapter 12 in your text book (pages 237 – 252) to gain a better understanding on this type of essay and you have completed the MyLabs Plus exercises assigned in last week’s  folder before you start drafting your first essay.

Your essay is supposed to be a minimum of two (2) FULL pages, typed and double spaced. Use font size 12 and font Times New Roman or Calibri. Please remember this essay has to be in a Microsoft Word (NOT Works) format when you submit it. Do NOT use a bigger font size or a different font! Your essay should contain no less than five (5) paragraphs, but may contain more. NO sources are allowed for this essay, except the book, The Hunger Games! For the purpose of this assignment you do not need to cite the book The Hunger Games!

No sources means no articles from magazines or journals, no web sites, no internet resources, no books except The Hunger Games,can be used as a source of information. This paper should reflect your analysis and thoughts on the questions posed.

Do NOT use the pronoun “I” or “me and “my” in your essay. Do not use phrases such as “In my opinion…” or “I think…” or “I believe….” This is your paper, and therefore reflects your thoughts and opinions.

Your essay has to have a tripartite thesis statement. Remember the mini lecture on thesis statements last week.Follow the steps below.  All essays will be checked for plagiarism and if found to be plagiarized will receive a 0 grade.  Do NOT use a bigger font size or a different font! Your essay should contain no less than five (5) paragraphs, but may contain more.
Below after the prompts  are step-by-step instructions, read them and follow them.
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Each of the prompts has a bit of background information which will help you choose the one you want to write about and give you a bit more information to think about the questions asked.  Remember your topic is the answer to the question, not the question. So you will have to think about your answer and your three points.

Prompt 1:

Background info: Before the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen was a hunter and gatherer in District 12 in the country of Panem. She didn’t much like cats, though she loved her sister very much. Her main goal was always the survival of her family. After being put in front of the Hunger Games’ cameras, though, things get kind of complicated. Katniss must craft a persona that will sell herself to the audiences at home – and to potential sponsors. Thrown into a world where image is everything, she has to play a whole new  Katniss on camera. But will this brand new Katniss last? Is this really her? What identity awaits her when she returns to District 12?

Here is your assignment: Illustrate the change that takes place in Katniss and/or Peeta during the book. You may use examples from the book to illustrate your points. However, your examples cannot be direct quotes, but must be paraphrases and can only be two to three sentences. I am not interested in a book report, but in your analysis and thoughts. Make sure you do not just end up retelling the story, but rather think about how the changes come about and what they might mean for the future.

The next two (2) prompts at first glance seem to be nearly identical . However, these prompts pose different questions and the answers to those questions become your topic. The prompts are different even though their background information is the same.

Prompt 2:
Background info: Rome in the first two centuries A.D. ( ancient history)  faced a yawning gulf between rich and poor. Its economy created few exportable goods. Slaves acquired by conquest built most of its bridges, roads and aqueducts and took jobs in farming, mining and construction. As this cheaper labor replaced Roman citizens, idle, unemployed, and restless people filled Rome. In order to entertain these people, the Roman Emperors put on what were called “circuses” which featured gladiator fights and often featured fights to the death.

In fact, you might have heard the phrase “bread and circuses” which was coined by the Roman poet and satirist Juvenal in reference to the way the ruling class tried to keep things peaceful by making the restless citizens and slaves focus on these games instead of their dissatisfaction and misery. In ancient Rome, the “bread” was distributions of grain, and the “circuses” were public games and other mass spectacles.Not unlike what is happening in the book The Hunger Games where the games are used as entertainment, tesserae is used to keep hunger at bay and as a means to oppress people and make them obey.

Here is your assignment:  For your illustration/example essay consider that over the last few years, reality TV shows have become a big hit in America. Shows like Survivor, X Factor,  Fear Factor, Amazing Race and Big Brother are just a few of them. Perhaps you have seen a reality TV shows? Or perhaps you have an opinion on them?  Is American reality TV like the “bread and circuses” of ancient Rome and a bit like the Hunger Games, why or why not?

Prompt 3:
Background info: Rome in the first two centuries A.D. ( ancient history)  faced a yawning gulf between rich and poor. Its economy created few exportable goods. Slaves acquired by conquest built most of its bridges, roads and aqueducts and took jobs in farming, mining and construction. As this cheaper labor replaced Roman citizens, idle, unemployed, and restless people filled Rome. In order to entertain these people, the Roman Emperors put on what were called “circuses” which featured gladiator fights and often featured fights to the death.

In fact, you might have heard the phrase “bread and circuses” which was coined by the Roman poet and satirist Juvenal in reference to the way the ruling class tried to keep things peaceful by making the restless citizens and slaves focus on these games instead of their dissatisfaction and misery. In ancient Rome, the “bread” was distributions of grain, and the “circuses” were public games and other mass spectacles.Not unlike what is happening in the book The Hunger Games where the games are used as entertainment, tesserae is used to keep hunger at bay and as a means to oppress people and make them obey.

Here is your assignment:  For your illustration/example essay consider that over the last few years, reality TV shows have become a big hit in America. Shows like Survivor, X Factor,  Fear Factor, Amazing Race and Big Brother are just a few of them. Perhaps you have seen a reality TV shows? Or perhaps you have an opinion on them?  Did The Hunger Games change the way you view American reality TV, why or why not?

Step-by-Step Instructions:
Step 1
I have given you a choice between three (3) prompts. Choose one of them to write your illustration/example essay. Remember, your topic is the answer to the question asked, not the question itself. So, before you can begin to write this essay  you have to think about how you might address the prompt you have chosen and how to develop the topic for the essay. It is important that you have a purpose for writing about this topic. Ask yourself what it is you want your reader to understand about your topic after reading your essay? What point are you trying to make  through the use of examples? What support can you include? What are the best descriptive details and examples to include to achieve your purpose? Remember that your thesis needs to contain three points/main ideas that you will discuss in detail in your body paragraphs.

Step 2
Use some of the pre-writing techniques you have read about in your text book.

Step 3
Remember that the major features of this illustration/example essay include at least five (5) paragraphs — an introduction paragraph which contains the “hook” which gets the reader interested in your essay. The last sentence of your introductory paragraph must be your thesis statement. In addition, you need to have  a minimum of three body paragraphs, one each for each of your major points, starting with a topic sentence and ending with a transition to the next paragraph.  Last not least you need  a conclusion paragraph that sums up your major points (restates your thesis statement in different words) and leaves the reader with a closing thought. Make sure you do NOT introduce new information in your conclusion paragraph.  Also, remember you can have more than three body paragraphs, for example, you can use two body paragraphs for each of your points.

A paragraph has at least 7 to 10 sentences, but can be longer than that.

Step 4
Begin drafting your introductory paragraph. Make sure you construct a solid thesis statement.  For this essay you will be using a tripartite thesis (which is just a fancy way of saying a thesis statement with three points) and I have provided you examples on how to construct a thesis statement in the Week 4 folder.  Make sure your thesis statement is the last sentence in your introduction paragraph. Remember the slideshow last week about introductory paragraphs.

Step 5
Begin working on your body paragraphs. Make sure each body paragraph starts with a topic sentence which refers to the thesis. You can look at page 241 in your text book  to see an example and to find more information about body paragraphs for this particular type of essay.

Step 6
Make sure you use transitions between your body paragraphs. Page 243 in your text book will give you a list of transitions to choose from, you can also check chapter 6, pages 114-116 in your text book for transitions.

Step 7
Write your conclusion paragraph. Make sure it recaps your purpose and restates your thesis statement in different wording.Also make sure you do NOT introduce new material in your conclusion paragraph.

Step 8
Carefully proofread your essay, by using the Example Essay Critique form on page 244. In addition, please look at the rubric I provided in this folder. I will use that rubric to grade your final draft. It will be helpful to you to have this rubric available now so you know what my expectations are and you can see what you need to do in order to achieve maximum points. It is important that you make your first draft as good as you can make it, so that revision suggestions become meaningful and will lead to a better grade. This essay will go through revisions before you submit the final draft.

Format

If your essay does not have a name block and/or a title, or the format is not followed, I will take one letter grade off!
Here is a sample of what the essay should look like (assume the line is the top of you first page:

Student’s name (This means your name)
Assignment (for example, Illustration/Example essay)
ENC 91-E0Z1 (class name and section number)
24 February 2010 (Date when you do the assignment)
Title
The essay text begins here. The beginning of each paragraph is indented half an inch. Use your “Tab” button on the keyboard to do so. Notice that there is no point at which the formatting allows for anything other than double-spacing. Above, the third line of text in the upper left hand corner shows the course designation, ENC 91. As for the fourth line of text, which is the date, always use the due date of the assignment. All of your essays should be titled. Do NOT double-space by hitting “Enter” twice, rather read the assignment sheet carefully again and you will see a screen shot on how to double-space in Microsoft Word 2007.
Also, do not hit enter at the end of the line, but keep on writing because Microsoft Word automatically will wrap your text. The only time you should hit “Enter” is when you start a new paragraph or between the lines of your name block! You can also look at a sample essay in our text book The Write Stuff on pages 392 – 397.
Double-spacing
Do not hit “enter” at the end of a line to double space. Remember your essay needs to be double-spaced, below is a screen shot of how to double space in Word 2007. If you are using another word processor, please find out how to double-space in your program.

Read the article: The Future of the New York Times, BusinessWeek, January 17, 2005, 64-72 Readership through circulation and news quality are key ingredients to profitability in the newspaper business industry. In a 2-3 page paper, examine what Arth

Read  the article:  The Future of the New York Times, BusinessWeek, January 17, 2005, 64-72

Readership through circulation and news quality are key ingredients to profitability in the newspaper business industry. In a 2-3 page paper, examine what Arthur Sulzberger can do to revive the failing newspaper whose “financial performance is lagging “.  Can New York Times, with its journalistic pride compete with the digital media and still deliver the best news?

Paper must be in the correct APA writing style. Include a minimum of 2-3 resources; 1 resource must be peer reviewed.

Annotated bibliography Topic: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Research Project Assignment
Annotated Bibliography

    The final due date for this assignment is Thursday, February 28, 2013, but the dropbox will be open throughout this course.  I strongly suggest that students do not wait until the final week to try and accomplish this project at the same time as they are trying to complete the Week 8 work.  It is better to start early and work a little bit at a time on this until it is completed.

    Instead of a writing a research paper, students will have the opportunity to find and assess outside resources while they produce an Annotated Bibliography.  An Annotated Bibliography is a listing of resources on a particular topic that describes the information available in each resource and discusses how that information might be useful to a researcher.

    Please see the sample Annotated Bibliography that I have uploaded.  While this is much longer than the project which you are producing, it should give you a good idea of what I am looking for.  Skim through it to get a feel for what information should be included in the annotations.

    Assume you are being asked to write a hypothetical (make-believe) research paper on the literary symbolism in a work of short fiction.  You can choose to focus your research upon either “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” or “The Minister’s Black Veil.” In order to prepare this hypothetical paper, you need to find three (3) scholarly, reliable outside sources.

    Literary symbols are those elements of a story or poem that convey more than just their literal meaning.  For example, in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” Faith, the hero’s wife, wears pink hair ribbons, and they represent the fact that Faith is neither entirely pure—she would wear white—nor entirely profane—she would wear red.  As a married woman, she is somewhere in between the two extremes.

Assignment:
•    Choose one of either “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” or “The Minister’s Black Veil,” stories we’ve already read.  Read the story you choose again and pay close attention to the symbols to be found in it.  These authors are famous for their symbolism, so you will not have trouble finding some!    If you are in doubt, don’t hesitate to ask me.
•    Find three (3) scholarly, reliable outside sources in support of a research paper about the literary symbolism as it is found in the story you chose.
•    Read these articles closely to ensure that you have a clear understanding of what they say about your topic.  Yes, you can expect me to go to them and read them for myself.
•    Prepare a properly formatted and insightful Annotated Bibliography for these three sources in which you briefly, in 1 or 2 sentences, discuss the particular information presented in the article and, in another sentence, explain how that information will be useful in preparing your hypothetical paper.
•    Remember that your primary source, whichever of the stories you plan to write about, will be included on the Annotated Bibliography.  Your annotation for that work will simply state that this is your primary source. (If you look at the sample, you will be able to identify the three primary sources that I was using: Byron, Lewis, and Wordsworth.)
•    Of the three (3) sources, only one (1) may be from the Internet, and no “.com” sources will be
accepted.  You may use “.edu,” “.org,” or “.gov” sources.  You do not have to use any Internet sources if you do not want to.  Before you settle on an Internet source, make sure that it complies with our two key words:  scholarly and reliable.  If it does not meet these criteria or if it is “.com” you will not get credit for it.
•    If you do not choose to use an Internet source, your third can be a source accessed in print.  Both FDTC’s library and the public library are excellent resources for research, and the librarians will be more than happy to help you.
•    At least two (2) of your sources must be from Electronic Databases that may be accessed through FDTC’s library website.
•    To find Databases, go to the FDTC Homepage, to the Library tab.  On the drop-down menu, you will find options for Off-Campus Access to electronic databases and an option for eDatabases.  Once you are in the Databases, choose the tab for Arts and Humanities.  I can highly recommend any of the following databases:
InfoTrac Expanded Academic
InfoTrac One File
Literature Resource Center
LitFinder
Masterfile Premier
MLA Directory of Periodicals
Primary Search
Scribner Writers Series
SIRS Renaissance

•    Remember that dictionaries, encyclopedias, book reviews, and plot summaries are not appropriate research for this assignment.  You should be looking at literary criticism, articles that discuss and analyze specific aspects of a given work.
•    Once you are in a Database, read the instructions, choose options, and use the search box just as you would for a Google, Bing, or Yahoo! search.  If you do not find what you are looking for, try again using different key words.  Be prepared to skim through several articles before you find the ones you want to use.
•    With the wealth of resources available to you and considering how many hundreds of critics have written about each of these stories, I will not for any reason accept the excuse “I can’t find anything.”  The information is there; go forth and find it!  I guarantee that your biggest problem will be choosing which articles to read from the many, many that you will find.

Example

Meagan Furr
Dr. Peggy Bailey
English Romanticism
13 April 2007
Revelations Through Unreliable Narrative
Annotated Bibliography
Amit, Marcus.  “The Self-Deceptive and the Other-Deceptive Narrating Character:  The Case of
Lolita.”  Style 39.2 (2005): 189-205.  Academic Search Premier.  EBSCOhost.
28 Mar. 2007.
In this article, Marcus Amit differentiates between “self-deceptive and other-deceptive narrating characters” and maintains “that some texts constantly cause the reader to hesitate between conflicting interpretations of the narrator as belonging to one of these two types” (187).  Application of these theories to all of my primary texts will support my assertion that each of these texts features unreliable narrative and will assist in my assessment of the function of those unreliable narrators.
Amoros, Jose Antonio Al.  “Possible-World Semantics, Frame Text, Insert Text, and Unreliable
Narration: The Case of The Turn of the Screw.” Style 25-1: (1991).  Academic Search Premier.  EBSCOhost.  29 Mar. 2007.
Amoros’s stated intention for this essay is to “form a theory of unreliable narration based on the world structure of the narrative text and on its relations to the ideas of frame text and insert text” (par 6).  Applying Wayne C. Booth’s theory and definition of unreliable narrative to Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, Amoros provides a lengthy and informative explication of Booth’s theory which is helpful to my efforts at applying that theory to my primary texts.
Booth, Wayne C.  The Rhetoric of Fiction.  (Publication information is unavailable because
I have not received my copy of this book.  I am informed that it was shipped on March
31, 2007, and delivery is guaranteed no later than April 13, 2007.)
This book is the one in which Booth explicates his theory of the function of the unreliable narrator in literature as a function of interaction between the reader and text that is driven by the historical and social contexts of the reader.  Because it is quoted liberally by the scholars whose work I am reading, I believe that this work will provide me with a strong foundation upon which to base my discussion of unreliable narrative.
Byron, George Gordon, Lord.  Don Juan.  The Romantic Period.  Eds. Jack Stillinger and Deidre
Shauna Lynch.  New York:  Norton, 2006. Vol. D of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.  8th ed. 6 vols. 670-734.
This poem is one of my primary sources.
Daly, Kirsten.  “Worlds Beyond England:  Don Juan and the Legacy of Enlightenment
Cosmopolitanism.” Romanticism 4.2 (1998): 189-201.  Academic Search Premier.  EBSCOhost. 4 Apr. 2007.
Kirsten Daly’s stated purpose in this article is to examine “how the tenets of benevolent Enlightenment cosmopolitanism were retained, negotiated, and reformulated in the Romantic period”; she aligns herself with scholars who hold that “for many Romantic writers the Enlightenment was an important legacy with which they continued to engage in thoughtful and provocative ways” (190).  Although Daly’s focus is upon cosmopolitanism, her observations on the ways in which Don Juan’s narrative voice represents Byron’s own beliefs supports my ideas of the poet’s intention in utilizing the device of the unreliable narrator.

Business plan Topic: strategic management

1-Using any industry with which you are familiar, please analyze the industry using (Except PCs industry) Porter’s Five Forces Model please explain your rationale.

2-From a strategic management perspective, examine the U s domestic automobile industry. Which of the influences in the broad (remote) environment do you see as having the greatest impact in the next 18 months? Why? Please explain rationale.

3-Explain the relationship between a firm and the various levels of external environment. Which stakeholder in the operating environment do you believe to be most important? Why? Please explain your rational.

4-How do we identify competitors and what are some of the common mistakes in identifying them? What tools are use to assist executives in examining direct competitors?

5-In porter’s model we are asked consider potential entrants and substitute products as additional competitors.  On what basis do we judge whether a firm is a potential entrant? On what basis do we determine if a competing product is a substitute? Product is a substitute?

6-Please compare and contrast the terms environmental determinism, strategic choice, stakeholder approach, enactment, and adaptation.

7-What do we mean by saying a resource-based view of the firm? What are these resources and what makes them valuable?

8-Please compare and contrast porter’s five forces model with the blue ocean( it’s attached perspective. Are these competing approaches? Pleas explain your rationale

Research Report

Assume that you work for a small business and the company president has asked you to gather information from the Small Business Administration (SBA) that will benefit your company, such as opportunities for government contracts or special programs or training available through the SBA.  Visit the SBA Web site at www.sba.gov and prepare an investigative report of 3-5 pages. The paper should be double-spaced and document appropriately using the APA style.

American History

Unit I Essay Exam: Reconstruction & Rise of Industry

Instructions:  Choose either question 1 OR 2 and then answer #3.

Answer questions in a clear and concise manner. Be specific and answer directly to the point of the question. Utilize all data available including any that you may have obtained from websites. Use the A Pocket Guide to Writing in History as the source of the correct format for citations. You may use “end notes” or footnotes—in other words, do NOT use citations within the text.

Post exam HERE as a WORD DOCUMENT and post it in the “DROP BOX” at the bottom of this page.  While there is not a proscribed length, the exam must be complete and to the point.

Questions: 1. Why do historians identify Congressional Reconstruction as “radical?” To what extent did Reconstruction ( in total) succeed and how did it fail? What is the lasting legacy of the era known as Reconstruction? Discuss ONE (1) specific historian’s viewpoint of Reconstruction.

2. Consider various factors that contributed to the settlement and the development of the American West. Choose two (2) factors and make the argument that these two (2) were the most crucial in the settlement and the development of the West and the United States as an industrial society by l900. What was the impact on the Native Americans, Hispanics, African Americans and White Americans in the West?

3. Discuss the role of capital and labor in the industrial society of the United States by 1900. What is the basic and fundamental ideology of capitalism and how did it contrdict with the princiles of “individualism” of pre-1900 U.S. society?  Give examples of conflicts between capital and labor during the years 1870 -1900.  In the end how and why did capitalist ideologies dominate? Discuss one specific historian’s viewpoint about the growth of capitalism?

Argumentative essay Topic: Swift's A Modest Proposal

Analyzes the “surprise ending of the reading selection:

Reading selection from Switf’s A Modest Proposal. Swift begins with offering the solution that the English could do things which might solve the problem of over-problem of over-population and the mistreatment of citizens in Ireland and ends by offering the solution that an internal changes in the Irish government would best solve the problem over-population and a populace victimize by its own government.  Read more about

Clearly state in your own words the “surprise ending” in the reading you selected. Identify the point in the reading when you realized that the ending would be different from what the beginning of the reading suggested that it would be.

Since you were expecting a different ending, evaluate how successful the author was in convincing you to accept the validity of the “surprise ending” that was not clearly suggested at the beginning.

Typed APA Style format.

Include a cover page, containing the title of the assignment, tthe course title, and the date, and the reference page are included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Explain how key social, cultural, and artistic contributions contribute to historical changes.

Explain the importance of situating a society’s cultural and artistic expressions within a historical context.

Examine the influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio-economic forces on social, cultural, and artistic expressions.

Identify major historical developments in world cultures from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.

Use technology and information resources to research issues in the study of world cultures.

Write clearly and concisely about world cultures using proper writing mechanics.

Business plan Topic: strategic management

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YOU IS NOT OF THE WRITERS WHO APPLIED , I need to contact you to have all paper that you started

I CARE ABOUT THE QULTY .I want the answers very deeply and
convincing

1-Using any industry with which you are familiar, please analyze the industry using (Except PCs industry) Porter’s Five Forces Model please explain your rationale.

2-From a strategic management perspective, examine the U s domestic automobile industry. Which of the influences in the broad (remote) environment do you see as having the greatest impact in the next 18 months? Why? Please explain rationale.

3-Explain the relationship between a firm and the various levels of external environment. Which stakeholder in the operating environment do you believe to be most important? Why? Please explain your rational.

4-How do we identify competitors and what are some of the common mistakes in identifying them? What tools are use to assist executives in examining direct competitors?

5-In porter’s model we are asked consider potential entrants and substitute products as additional competitors.  On what basis do we judge whether a firm is a potential entrant? On what basis do we determine if a competing product is a substitute? Product is a substitute?

6-Please compare and contrast the terms environmental determinism, strategic choice, stakeholder approach, enactment, and adaptation.

7-What do we mean by saying a resource-based view of the firm? What are these resources and what makes them valuable?

8-Please compare and contrast porter’s five forces model with the blue ocean( it’s attached perspective. Are these competing approaches? Pleas explain your rationale