Al Wadi Al Akhdar Competitive Advantage

In addition, the internationalisation is the strategy to occupy the foreign market step by step. Also, the porter’s competitive advantages theory is to analysis the strategies of global business. They could divide to three strategies: over cost leading, diversity, and market focus strategy (Passemard& Calantone, 2000). The cost leading strategy focus on establish efficient scale production facility and minimize the research and advertising cost. The diversity strategy focus on introduce some unique product in whole industry. But, this strategy will with a high cost price. The focus strategy is attack of a particular customer group or specialist regional market, its purpose to design the service for a particular target. Consequently, the companies need to consider the internal and external factor condition, such as: factor condition, demand condition, related and supporting industries condition, and firm strategy and rivalry. They are called diamond system. This dynamic system gives the company a standard to measure theirs advantage and disadvantage before they enter foreign market. Moreover, the specific advantage in Internationalisation of Production is give companies a new choose for exhausted market (Strange,S. 1992). In an international environment, the companies will face more uncertain and unequal condition than home market, therefore the companies need keep the attention of more factors:

Ownership advantages could be intangible assets like technology and information, managerial, marketing and entrepreneurial skills, organisational systems, access to intermediate or final goods markets, a production process, patent and blueprint. The ownership advantage includes some firm specific valuable market power or cost advantage on the firm sufficient to outweigh the disadvantages of doing business abroad. They are closely related to the technological and innovative capabilities and the economic development levels of source countries.

To obtain a global competitive advantage one must first understand all the factor conditions associated with each individual country. Factor conditions are resources that a business may be able to utilize to best formulate and execute a strategic plan that will ultimately provide a competitive advantage. Michael Porter lists these five factors as human resources, physical resources, knowledge resources, capital resources, and infrastructure resources.

AL CHARAG is in its first year of operation. Their products have gained a strong demand from the first contacts with end users and distributors. Marketing will create substantial demand for key product. Basic need in the market for high-quality, innovative machinery and equipment of a restaurant is very high.

In the article “The Competitive Advantage of Nations” Michael Porter describes a diamond shaped relationship of forces that define a country’s potential for being competitive in a specified industry. The four points on the diamond representing the different forces are: factor conditions; demand conditions; firm strategy, structure and rivalry; and related and supporting industries. According to Porter, the four points apply pressure to each other resulting in a national

From hundreds of years, Milk has been considered as an essential piece of day by day eating regimen of numerous individuals around the world. It has both nutritious and dietary advantages. Having a glass of milk requires no restrictions of age. Individuals of all age bunches expend it regular. Pakistan is a rural nation where the accessibility of crude materials as milk is exceptionally advantageous. Exploiting this, numerous national and multi-national organizations began their operations in Pakistan identified with dairy items. Among them are Nestle and Haleeb Foods Limited, who got enormous achievement in this industry. They are the pioneers who presented stuffed milk without precedent for Pakistan. Haleeb Dairy Queen Milk is an understood brand of Haleeb Foods Limited which is presented without precedent for 2000, to cook the section of savoring milk Pakistan. Regardless of its uniqueness, Haleeb Dairy Queen is not as effective as it is required to be. In the accompanying

Omantel is an organization which is pioneer of the telecommunication industry in the Oman. It is the main internet provider in the Oman and it has market leadership position in the market. The government of the country has 51% share in the company. The company has formed itself a major global hub through presently 10 submarine cables landing in the country such as PLAG, EPEG, Mena, POI, OMRAN, BBG, GBI, Falcon, EIG, and TWA etc. The company designed a project in the 2015 for the application of the FTTH type of technology in the Oman and for this the company won award for the best maintenance of the quality for the HR in the company (Omantel, 2017).

Even though it may not reduce cost as much, advance technology does improve Emirates operations. After much innovations of 21st century technology, Emirates establish its first A380 airbus fleet in 2010 and still expanding. Not only it accommodate a huge number of passengers, the plane, but it also uses Biofuel and quieter noise volume with thrust reversal engines, giving its passengers great flight experience.

Al Karam group of companies came in to existence in 1990s when it started trade in grains and oil in subcontinent. Based in Karachi this Group has unfolded its vision of growth and established its multi-faceted concerns country wide and abroad. The group capitalized opportunities in following industries

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He also stated that general factors, mainly unskilled labour and raw materials are easy to acquire and cannot lead to sustainable competitive advantage. Specialized factors are difficult to replicate but require significant amount of investment. Certain disadvantage in factors of production compels innovation which often leads to national comparative advantage. Hence Porter (1998) distinguished the basic and advanced factors.

Competitive advantage is explained by Mahoney and Pandian (1992) as the function of industry analysis, organizational governance and the firm’s effects in the form of resource advantages and strategies. In order for a firm to be competitive it must adapt to the volatile business environment and through strategic management decisions establish a competitive advantage that will ultimately produce superior performance relative to its competitors (Akimova 2000).

The same critics that Zahra has addressed to Oviatt and McDougall’s analysis applies on his list of factors contributing to the INV’s competitive advantage. We should acknowledge that every country has some economic or cultural specificity; therefore there are some universal business rules which apply on the entire global market. The traditional firms, who possesses years of local market experience, ownership and abundance of their resources are more qualified to compete on the international level.

We will be marketing a food product, “Healthy Protein Snack Foods” that will be marketed to the athletic people, people playing soccer games, and people from ones who joined sports clubs in Dubai. The prime focus of the product is mainly on Dubai, that is u males between the ages of 20-35 years of age in order to get their attention to the efficacy of the product with to improving their health. From there we want to spread to other cities of UAE. The success of the “Healthy Protein Snack Foods” will be dependent on the way, we take the product to the people in our target market, describing its features and the aspects of health that it contributes, the replacement it can give for the fast foods, and the overall value it can add for the family health. we would like to marketing strategy that would enable us to reach the population of Dubai in a faster way, and in low cost method. The “Healthy Protein Snack Foods” is one of the kind of the products, created specifically for the sports people in Dubai, to help them upkeep their health.

Any country should use porter diamond theory of national advantage. It's designed to help understand the competitive advantage nations. It suggests that the national home base of any organizations are playing a supportive role in shaping the size or scoop to which it is likely to achieve advantage on a global scale. This home base provides basic factors, which support organizations from building advantages in international competition. Porter classifies four determinants: Factor Condition, Diamond Condition, Relatives & supporting and Structure, strategy & Rivalry. Egypt government acts to catalysts to improve Egypt position in a globally competitive economic environment. They found that they can create new factors such as skilled labor and high technology (Porter M., 1990). Porter's diamond model suggests threat there are inherent reasons why some nations are more competitive than others on an international market. Another factor that influence in competitive advantages such as the policies that put by government. One of the most influencer policies is (FDI) Foreign direct investment