tailieunhanh - Industrial and Financial Economics Master thesis No 2003: SUPPLIER EVALUATION

In 1996, Kealey argued that public research activities are irrelevant on business R&D expenditure in his book which with a tile of “The Economic Laws of Scientific Research”. Free commerce will virtually and automatically generate technological innovation and economic growth even without government intervention. The author argued that if the knowledge is useful, then business enterprises will undertake it anyway. | Industrial and Financial Economics Master thesis No 2003 38 Supplier Evaluation From an IKEA perspective Johan A. M. Eriksson Anders O Hallgren Graduate Business School School of Economics and Commercial Law Goteborg University ISSN 1403-851X Printed by Elanders Novum ABSTRACT IV KEY WORDS_________________________________V ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS___________________________V 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Background 1 History 1 Understanding IKEA 3 General Descriptions of the research problem 4 2 PROBLEM STATEMENT 5 SUPPLIER Financing 5 Problem Specification 5 Purpose of the study 6 Research Questions 7 3 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 8 Global forces 8 Global market forces 8 Global cost forces 8 technological forces 9 Political and macroeconomic forces 9 risk factors. 10 CREDIT risk 10 early Warning Signs 10 COUNTRY risk 11 Performance risk 14 CREDIT Models Domestic and international 14 financial Statements 17 Analysing Performance 17 free cash flows 18 Return on invested capital 18 economic profit 18 WHAT-IF forecasting 19 length of forecast 19 INFLATION 20