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Cost Leadership
Implementing a Cost Leadership Strategy
A strategy is only as good as its implementation
Strategy is implemented through organizational structure ate R&D
Corporate Finance
Strategic Planning
Corporate Marketing
Corporate Human
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Cost Leadership
Organizational Structure
Simple Structure Owner / Manager
• Owner/Manager makes all major decisions directly and monitors all activities
降低纵向并购的动机
Substitutes
• competitors rationally avoid price competition
Suppliers
• limits attractiveness of substitutes
降低替代的吸引力
• increases importance of the focal firm to the supplier 增加公司对供应商的重要性
• this structure makes sense when the firm is involved in more than one business or has grown large enough to justify geographic divisions