In addition, Indonesia would gain technology for operating the plants. ... Dow asserted in its proposal that the project offered only marginal returns to the company due to some peculiar characteristics: (1) it was heavily capital intensive, (2) the manufacturing cost had a high fixed-cost element, and (3) satisfactory returns would be obtained only when the levels of sales enabled its plants to operate near capacity. ... In Southeast Asia a group of Japanese companies were considering the construction of a petrochemical plant in Singapore, which would post great competitive pressure on the In...

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He also generalizes about the relationships and characteristics of what he calls a new system of international politics and economics. ... These three "Asian Tigers- encouraged direct foreign investment and diversified their production plants in places like China and Russia where labor costs less. ... In Rosecrance's view "China may become the production plant for the world, but China's industries would only attain completeness when mated to research, development, product design, marketing, and financing provided by other nations."" (171) The developing world continues to rely ...

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Nucor's rivals, for the most part, still use traditional integrated steel mills, which inefficiently use a single large scale plant to perform all of the steel making functions. ... The supply factors of production (transformation factors) are labor to operate plants, capital facilities, and land. ... Overall, the steel industry has all of the characteristics of a highly competitive market : Stagnant demand, excess capacity, and numerous global competitors. ...

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"It is generally agreed that the rapid expansion of Japan's economy from the late 1950s through the 1960s was powered by the vigorous investment of private industry in new plant and equipment. ... These three characteristics are known as the code of ethics in a professional's life. ...

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In this instance, considering the costs involved in replacing mules with rings in existing plants, it appears that the decisions of British cotton masters were vindicated. ... Britain `s principal competitor, Germany, developed large-scale iron & steel making despite importing suitable ore from Sweden, but German workers were 80% more productive per worker than their British counterparts by 1914,making Britain` s attachment to its acid steel making plant puzzling. ... In 1869, they were more or less set free from all government control and set about elaborating that anti-intellectual, anti-sci...

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Task 1 Different Types of Organizations and the Purpose 1.1 Purpose of organization Before we learn about the types of organizations, we need to learn the basic purpose of setting organizations. The main purpose of organization is to provide a pathway to their business setup and to set the main objective for their business. Organizations help in making profit in a standard way. The different purpose of organizations helps in building the structure of company. Different Types of Organizations There are three types of organizations in business field. ...

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