An international business faced with a pure multinational environment where consumers derive value from multiple local characteristics must pursue a localization leadership strategy.

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An international business faced with a pure global market environment where consumers derive value from global characteristics only must pursue a cost leadership strategy.

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An international business faced with a semiglobal market environment where consumers derive value from a bundle of global and local product characteristics must harmonize its strategy.

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Although the books and audiovisual resources give inmates a general opportunity in any case to direct their thoughts away from the prison environment, the main value of the prison library is in providing its users with the option of further education and self-reflection, obtaining life skills and improving their reading skills.

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"Our results this quarter demonstrate the ability of our colleagues to deliver solid operational performance in a challenging environment as well as to extract value for shareholders from the acquisition of Wyeth, " Kindler said.

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Her company recently teamed up with the Great Place to Work Institute to ask senior executives from top-ranked companies about the value of a positive work environment.

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Will you say that living in a world where individuals not only want to protect their property from thieves, but also from the environment (such as fires), is a lesser value than the destruction of it (the purpose of firefighters)?

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To succeed in this new environment, marketers need to move away from one-way communication and towards a true value exchange, where consumers interact with the brand continuously because they are getting more than just a slogan, but an experience that transcends the product itself.

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