This dataset is about book subjects. It has 2 rows and is filtered where the books is Comparative advantage in UK manufacturing trade, 1910-1935. It features 10 columns including number of authors, number of books, earliest publication date, and latest publication date.

This statistic displays share of organizations whom usage of cloud services had given a competitive advantage in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015, by company size. During the survey, it was found that ** percent of respondents from organizations employing fewer than ** persons reported that cloud services had made their organizations more competitive.

This dissertation accomplishes several tasks. First it surveys the literature in the resource-base theory of a firm and retailing for establishing the vital links necessary for firm heterogeneity in the retail channel for white goods. The review depicts not only the various dimensions of the concepts of resources, capabilities and competitive behaviour on competitive advantage but also the specific organisational/inter-organisational and strategic adaptation capabilities that direct some firms to outperform other firms in this retail channel. The empirical analysis for testing competitive advantages included a main survey analysis that consisted of all retailers and another for the small retailers. A model was constructed to diffuse simultaneously the critical resources, capabilities and competitive behaviour to competitive advantages pertaining to this retail channel in the UK. Furthermore, this method of linking and ranking of key resources and capabilities to competitive advantages is expected to encourage managers to leverage existing resource positions into superior future positions. Additionally it is also expected to help regulators address competitive issues accordingly. The results indicate that in this retail channel competitive advantages were associated to key resources and key capabilities. In this study the linking of strategic adaptive capabilities to key resources highlight retailer branding enhancements from non product activities. These non-product activities were a basis for setting ex ante limits to future competition in this retail channel. The outcome of the analysis illustrates that efficiency and/or effectiveness of outlets (key resources) were subject to delivery of customer values from product portfolios that increased market shares (proxy for competitive advantage) for the retailer organisations. This study also demonstrates how retailer outlets became a source of competitive advantage by fulfilling the conditions of value, rarity, inimitability and insubstitutability. Finally, this study also reviews the current retail structure of this retail channel to understand why it could be efficient and effective than its counterparts in Europe. The result of the two surveys suggests some evidence of imperfect competition and directs attention not to the concentration of firms but to the imbalances of outlet classes prevailing in this retail channel. Moreover this study also reveals that the number of small retailer outlets prevalent in this retail channel may indirectly control to a certain degree the extent of the advantages of economies of scale/scope that is available to the larger retailers.

School Survey:
A school survey was introduced into Young Lives in 2010, following the third round of the household survey, in order to capture detailed information about children’s experiences of schooling. It addressed two main research questions:

• how do the relationships between poverty and child development manifest themselves and impact upon children's educational experiences and outcomes?
• to what extent does children’s experience of school reinforce or compensate for disadvantage in terms of child development and poverty?

The survey allows researchers to link longitudinal information on household and child characteristics from the household survey with data on the schools attended by the Young Lives children and children's achievements inside and outside the school. A wide range of stakeholders, including government representatives at national and sub-national levels, NGOs and donor organisations were involved in the design of the school survey, so the researchers could be sure that the ‘right questions’ were being asked to address major policy concerns. This consultation process means that policymakers already understand the context and potential of the Young Lives research and are interested to utilise the data and analysis to inform their policy decisions. The survey provides policy-relevant information on the relationship between child development (and its determinants) and children’s experience of school, including access, quality and progression. This combination of household, child and school-level data over time constitutes the comparative advantage of the Young Lives study.

The School Survey data are held separately for each country. The India data are available from the UK Data Archive under SN 7478, the Peru data have been archived under SN 7479, and the Ethiopia data are available from SN 7823.

A further round of school surveys took place during the 2016-2017 school year. The Ethiopia survey is available under SN 8358, the India survey under SN 8359 and the Vietnam survey under SN 8360.

Further information is available from the Young Lives https://www.younglives.org.uk/content/school-survey" title="School Survey">School Survey webpages.

The UK menswear market will grow by £3.2bn in the five years to 2020 – equating to 29.5% growth on 2015. A growing interest in fashion and a willingness to buy more frequently will boost future spend, with spend by per increasing by over £100 in the coming five years. With competition deepening, retailers can gain a competitive advantage by building their ranges of non-core product areas such as big & tall, tailoring and sportswear, to grow destination appeal by serving niche customer groups. Read More