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Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of English, General Literature and Rhetoric, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

- / The PhD thesis is about measurement and effects of environmental policy in the context of the Porter Hypothesis (PH). The first chapter offers a critical review of the large empirical literature on the Porter Hypothesis. The second chapter presents an empirical investigation of the Porter Hypothesis focusing on the manufacturing sectors of European countries between 1997 and 2009. We look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant indicators for the “strong” PH. This approach allows us to account for potential opportunity costs of induced innovations. As a proxy of environmental policy stringency we use pollution abatement and control expenditures (PACE), which represent one of the few indicators available at the sectoral level. We remedy upon its main drawback, that of potential endogeneity of PACE, by adopting an instrumental variable estimation approach. The third chapter represents a novel approach, inspired by the literature on multilevel latent models and Item Response Theory, to assessing countries’ environmental and energy policy performance. We use data on energy efficiency policy targeting industrial sectors in 27 EU countries between 2004 and 2009 and rank countries with respect to their ability to implement policy over time. Unlike previous contributions in this respect, our model accounts for the inherent difficulty of a given policy instrument mix. Moreover, the model is extended to deal with the longitudinal data and to adjust the country ranking as a result of economic and institutional observables, which are likely to affect policy design and implementation.

Zugl.: Erfurt, Univ., Diss., 2003

The purpose of thesis is to formulate, based on an analysis of the activities taken by the operations and strategic management, measures to improve strategic-operational collaboration and raise the quality of strategic decision making in a selected business company. To accomplish the set objective, internal and external environments in which the company competes have been identified using PESTL analysis, Porter five forces analysis, Value Chain Analysis and Financial Analysis. Based on these analyses, the strengths and weaknesses, important opportunities and threats within the company have been determined. SWOT analysis and Fuller's Triangle Method have been applied to assess the internal capabilities, limitations and chances of the organization in the business environment. The completed analyses have been assessed and used to create proposals and recommendations for developing strategic decision making in the investigated company.

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[pt] A pesquisa avalia qual é o impacto das estratégias financeiras no desempenho das empresas dos setores de energia elétrica, siderurgia e metalurgia, têxtil e telecomunicações. Esses são os principais setores das empresas listadas na Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo. Os dados obtidos foram os demonstrativos de resultado de cada uma das empresas do ano de 2004. Após analisar as tipologias de Mintzberg (1988) e Miles and Snow (1978) e Porter (1980), utilizamos a tipologia de Porter (1980) para definir os grupos estratégicos de cada setor pesquisado. Os resultados obtidos foram a caracterização do grupo estratégico liderança em baixo custo como o de melhor desempenho em três setores pesquisados e encontrou-se relação relevante entre o posicionamento da empresa dentro do seu grupo estratégico e o seu desempenho. / [en] This research measures the impact of the financial strategies in the firm´s performance using a wide range of multivariate statistics techniques. The electric energy, metals, textile and telecommunications are the main industries in the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa). Those industries are the chief subject of the research and represent 37,8% of all the revenue of the companies in Bovespa. The data used in such research is obtained from the 2004 financial statement of those companies in the studied industries. My literature research was made using a wide range of typologies like Mintzberg (1988), Miles and Snow (1993) and Porter (1980). Porter´s typology (1980) was used for the classification of the strategic cluster of each of the industries, because it could offer a good explanatory power with small number of the variables. The empirical result discovered is that the strategic group low cost leadership has better performance than all other strategic groups. I have also found out a relationship between the position of the firm inside the strategic group and it´s performance. This linear relationship is negative therefore I conclude the strategic financial positioning of the firm results an improvement in it´s performance. In my research, I discuss about how we could use financial data to measure companies´ financial strategies and how we could apply such research in other countries.

The subject of this thesis is the evaluation of competitive position of the selected company. The strategic methods important for analysis of internal and external environment of the firm have been used to determine the position. Specifically these methods: competition analysis, Porter?s five forces model and SWOT analysis. Customer satisfaction analysis was also used. A few methods of financial analysis were applied to determine the financial health of the company. At the end of this thesis is an evaluation of the current market position and appropriate suggestions that would help to improve the competitive position.

El objetivo principal de este estudio es proponer la Plantación Estratégica del nivel del negocio de mantenimiento para el regimiento Logístico de Ejército Nº3 “Limache”, proponiendo la visión, la misión, la estrategia genérica a seguir y objetivos que permitan lograrlo. Lo anterior se hace necesario porque el proyecto de modernización, en que se encuentra el Ejército, ha traído como consecuencia la adquisición de nuevos materiales, cada vez más sofisticados y que necesitan ser mantenidos durante la duración de su ciclo de vida, con una gestión y ejecución eficiente. El estudio comienza con la revisión de la bibliografía necesaria para enfrentar el tema, para lo cual se analiza el concepto de estrategia de parte de varios autores, además dos herramientas que permiten el análisis interno y externo del regimiento. En segundo lugar se declara la visión y se realiza un análisis a la misión preexistente del regimiento y se propone una nueva de acuerdo a la nueva realidad que enfrenta esta unidad logística Posteriormente se procede al diseño de la estrategia del negocio, para lo cual se realiza un análisis del medio externo mediante la herramienta de las cinco fuerzas de Porter y un análisis interno mediante la utilización de la cadena de valor del regimiento. Las dos herramientas nos permitieron determinar las oportunidades y amenazas en el caso de la primera y las fortalezas y debilidades en caso de la segunda, lo que a su vez nos permitió seleccionar una estrategia genérica de diferenciación enfocada a la responsabilidad que el ejército definió para el regimiento. Una vez obtenida la estrategia genérica de diferenciación enfocada, se definieron tres tema estratégicos: gestión de la organización, contribución a la operacionalidad del material de guerra del ejército y diferenciación enfocada a la responsabilidad de material asignada; y dentro de cada uno de los temas se definieron objetivos estratégicos que permitan alcanzar en largo plazo la visión del regimiento. Finalmente se entregan las conclusiones que el memorista obtuvo con el desarrollo de este trabajo.

The aim of this diploma thesis was to analyse market opportunities of a given company. To reach this aim, I made own evaluation of the macro environment using STEP analysis, using Porter{\crq}s model I analysed the micro environment, and for the company assessment financial analysis and marketing mix were used. I have made a summary of all my findings and created SWOT analysis, in which I identified strenghts and weaknesses of the company, as well as its opportunities and threats.