Porter's Five Forces Model of Whirlpool Corporation

Threat of New Entrants

                                                      

Economies of Scale

The trend continued towards dedicated manufacturing facilities combining product line production in fewer large plants to gain economies of scale. All the major home appliances manufacturers were heavily engaged in renovating and building production facilities to gain economies of scale, improve quality, and reduce labor and material costs. So it would be a high barrier for the new entrant.

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Video Game Industry Porter's Five Forces Model

Porter’s five forces model is one of the environmental analyzing tools; which is used to analysis the external environment of a firm. According to the Porter’s five force model, the industry dynamics for each of the two strategic groups were identified to be as follows.

PEST Analysis of Global Home Appliance Industry

Political and Legal Factors 

US Department of Energy (DOE): requires energy conservation improvements for refrigerators and freezers & clothes washers.

Impact: All the industries will have to invest heavily in the Engineering (Process) R&D to keep up with this requirement. This will not only mean rise in cost of manufacturing these appliances but also keep on innovating new ways to save energy and be more competitive in the Appliance Market.

Literature Review Example in Finance

A study was conducted by Arugaslan, Ed and Ajay (2007) to evaluate the risk-adjusted performance of US mutual funds. Study employed a sample of 20 largest US-based mutual funds for the period 1995-2004. Study used Quarterly returns for computing the measures of return and risk. Modigliani and Modigliani (M Square) and Sortino Ratio are used to evaluate the performance. Study identified the performance evaluation over a five-year (2000-2004) and ten-year (1995-2004) investment horizon. The authors concluded that funds with the highest returns faced higher risk due to which funds lose attractiveness.