BUSINESS NETWORKING, MARKETING AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS: A Proposed Framework for SMEs in Mauritius

This paper is about the proposal of a framework for SMEs in Mauritius. It brings solutions to the weakness concerning the development of the SME industry in Mauritius and also proposes a framework for it in the context of globalisation. Such an initiative would allow SMEs to expand into large enterprises (LEs) and would be considered as ‘Gateways to Larger Enterprises’.

Drucker and Porter on Management and Analysis

The work of Drucker is reviewed with particular regard to comments about the role of management and the approach Drucker suggests concerning determining the focus of the business. These statements are evaluated for their relationship to the business model and its importance in business analysis. The work of Porter is reviewed concerning competitive advantage and the suggestions regarding business analysis and the detailed information sources. The concept of analysing the linkages between resources across the organization and the supply chain is reviewed. The relationship between the resource-based view of competitive advantage and the connection to the VRIO framework is considered. The suggestions Porter makes concerning the industry analysis and within industry analysis are reviewed. The possibility of using the same approach and developing similar related questions to analyse the organization is considered.

The Strategic Planning and Branding Tactics of Meituan

Meituan, an Internet company that focuses on businesses such as food delivery and hotel-ordering, was first launched in 2009. Within a decade, Meituan has evolved into a shopping platform that Chinese rely on, due to Meituan’s smart strategic planning, marketing positioning, high working efficiency, and its variety of business branches. Meituan has emerged as one of the Top 20 Risers global brands and ranked 54th among the Top 100 brands in 2020. As a service company that occupies the biggest portion of food delivery within the Chinese market, it’s of significance to explore what factors make Meituan the most successful and popular platform that changes people’s way of living. By investigating on Meituan’s financial reports, industry analysis, case studies and peer brand comparison, this paper will analyze Meituan’s strategic planning and development of its business and its linkage with consumer psychology, examine the factors that contribute to Meituan’s success, and provide inspiration of the brand’s future development.

Comparison amid the Service Quality Attributes: Pakistan Hotel Industry Analysis

Study focus was to comparatively analyze the expected and actual service quality attributes in the hotel industry of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Islamabad, Pakistan. Population of the study was comprised of customers/clients of different hotels/ situated at urban areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Lahore, and Islamabad Capital city of Pakistan. Statistical analysis reveals that there exist significance difference amid the customers/clients of KP, Lahore, and Islamabad Pakistan on expected and actual service quality attributes. The study considered that lodging client’s/customers are the key factor in the friendliness and in up-bring the business prosperity.

Remembering Oleksandr Pronin: the Stained Glass Art Laboratory of KSADA in 1980–2000s

The material covers the years of creative life of a famous Ukrainian artist-monumentalist, O. Pronin (1934–2002), associated with his leadership of the Department of Monumental Painting of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts and the development of stained glass as a technique and a form of monumental and decorative art in education. The author focuses on the formation of a school of artistic stained glass in Kharkiv, the founders of which were professors Oleksandr Pronin and his wife Galyna Tishchenko. The article has some features of autobiography and is presented in the form of memoirs about the activities of the stained glass workshop of KSADA – Kharkiv Art and Industry Institute, and life of the author and the main character of the story, O. Pronin, and his students, around this workshop. These are the times of formation of the laboratory, certain stages of gaining experience in the stained glass industry, analysis of works of art and the spread of stained glass art through the work of the head of the department and laboratory and his many followers. Documentary and illustrative materials on the activities of the stained glass workshop, which was created by O. Pronin in 1967 and is still developing thanks to the efforts and activities of the author of the article, who is a direct student and a follower of the master, mention significant for Kharkiv and all Ukraine monumental art projects, behind which O. Pronin stood as the author or leader. The facts and memoirs presented by the author of the article have historical and scientific value, since the author himself took part in the creation of the stained glass laboratory of KSADA as its head. Although the emphasis is made on the 1980–2000s, which was the period of the heyday of the laboratory, the author also cites the modern works of O. Pronin’s and his own students, showing the continuity of the traditions in the Kharkiv school of stained glass.