MISs can help a company gain a competitive advantage.

This cost dictates the display s competitive impact.

But others, such as wind, solar, and geothermal, are in some circumstances already cost competitive or nearly cost competitive with fossil fuels.

has wind at fast enough speeds to be cost competitive.

Visualizing the user's information and providing an intelligible interface is an opportunity for competitive advantage.

One must also recognize that low labor costs are an essential component of China s competitive advantage.

Likewise, if too many herbivorous fish are removed, algae gain a competitive advantage over the corals.

Now, Haiti can turn its geography into a competitive advantage, but only if the United States helps.

Technology management is set of management disciplines that allows organizations to manage their technological fundamentals to create competitive advantage.

In fact, the decreased cost of manufacturing in America, combined with the country s business friendly regulations, strong rule of law, and political stability, will eliminate the competitive advantage that has driven China s rapid economic growth over the last several decades.

Skeptics might add that China s cost advantage also includes circumventing environmental and social regulations.

Once teaching reduces, if not eliminates, the original competitive advantage associated with a piece of research, academics and their funders are forced to seek new sources of advantage by producing new knowledge.

The US and the UK don t want to weaken their competitive advantage by taxing banks while some other countries do not.

China s currency policy gives it a competitive advantage relative to other countries, allowing it to displace their exports to the US.

The fact is that a weaker dollar resulting from lower interest rates gives the US a slight competitive advantage in trade.

Among the low cost waste water treatment options available are anaerobic treatment systems, which have the advantage of simple construction and low cost maintenance.

It results from academics and funders collaborating on projects that aim to increase the competitive advantage of each in their respective domains.

As a result, American firms with access to cheap energy are given a big competitive advantage over firms in Europe and elsewhere.

Competitive advantage is a firm s ability to do something better, faster, cheaper, or uniquely, when compared with rival firms in the market.

Low cost call centers in India or Chinese made bicycles do not reflect any natural comparative advantage.

And so today, I'm going to show you four, because I hope to have a competitive advantage at the end of this, still.

Given that luxury goods provide individuals with a competitive advantage, higher luxury goods sales could indicate a brighter economic future for a country.

This may be particularly relevant today, with China s rising wages and appreciating exchange rate underscoring rapid change in global comparative and competitive advantage.

Given that luxury goods provide individuals with a competitive advantage, higher luxury goods sales could indicate a brighter economic future for a country.

Some of these policies are driven by the desire to attain a competitive advantage, as is the case with China s support for green industries.

The firm can also distinguish its product offering through quality of service, extensive distribution, customer focus, or any sustainable competitive advantage other than price.

In this context, a key policy challenge is to set priorities and focus on niches where they could have a comparative or competitive advantage.

The manufacturing sector, squeezed by stagnating productivity and competition from China and other low cost producers, is no longer competitive.

However, developing countries can only convert their competitive advantage into increased market shares if markets function in a way that is not impeded by distortions.

European firms will continue to be at a competitive disadvantage relative to American firms, which bear no cost for their emissions.

Competitive markets would ensure the best allocation of resources according to comparative advantage, securing the export revenues to import capital and intermediate goods to ensure faster growth.

The largest and best equipped farms are highly competitive, in the sense that they can produce for markets at a lower cost.

Such government insured underwriting distorts the market, giving big banks a competitive advantage, not necessarily because they are more efficient, but because they are too big to fail.

As a result of this moral hazard, these banks can borrow on favorable terms, giving them a competitive advantage based not on superior performance but on political strength.

Global supply chains constantly in flux, owing to rising developing country incomes and shifting comparative advantage locate productive activities where human and other resources make those activities competitive.

Finished goods are increasingly subject to multi country and multi industry interventions, with individual enterprises in different countries specializing in specific production stages, according to their competitive advantage.

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To the extent that some of the lower cost is rebated to their clients, even industrial firms in Germany enjoy a lower cost of capital, giving them an unfair advantage vis à vis their European competitors.

The EU s current economic upturn suggests that the strategy is working, particularly after its renewal in 2005. But some areas in which Europe could gain a competitive advantage have been neglected.

Unlike the US dollar, there is no obvious way to put pressure on the European Central Bank to depreciate the currency in order to obtain a competitive advantage over other economies.

China s rising trade surplus has led some observers to call for a revaluation of the renminbi to correct what they see as an unfair competitive advantage that China maintains in international markets.

Your picture then I guess of how the world eventually gets off fossil fuels is through innovation ultimately, that we'll someday make solar and nuclear cost competitive?

The foremost important competitive advantage arising from OFDI in this survey is the increasing familiarity and experience in international business (exposure to foreign culture and business practices) that becomes a firm specific asset.

But, as China grows increasingly dependent on imports of resource commodities to meet its basic needs, its coast will continue to enjoy a transport cost advantage.

A particular challenge will be to ensure containment of the costs of delivering multiple service lines to clients in many locations worldwide so that services remain cost competitive.