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Netra Shetty
Organisational Structure of Koch Industries : Koch Industries, Inc. is an American private energy conglomerate based in Wichita, Kansas, with subsidiaries involved in manufacturing, trading and investments. Koch also owns Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Flint Hill Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals and Matador Cattle Company.
Koch companies are involved in core industries such as the manufacturing, refining and distribution[1] of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching,[2] finance, commodities trading, as well as other ventures and investments.
In 2008, Forbes called it the second largest privately held company in the United States (after Cargill) with an annual revenue of about $98 billion,[3][4][5] down from the largest in 2006. If Koch Industries were a public company in 2007, it would rank about 16 in the Fortune 500.[6]
Fred C. Koch, for whom Koch Industries, Inc. is named, co-founded the company in 1940 and developed an innovative crude oil refining process.[7] His sons, Charles G. Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, and David H. Koch, executive vice president, are principal owners of the company after they bought out their brothers, Frederick and William for $1.1 billion in 1983.[8] Charles and David H. Koch each own 42% of Koch Industries, and Charles has stated that the company will publicly offer shares "literally over my dead body"
CEO
Charles Koch
CFO
Steve Feilmeier
COO
David Robertson
Communication
MC
Communication
TJ
Public Affairs
KS
Vice President
DK
The entry has many barriers and the first one is that the retails need a lot of investment for its sophisticated factors within the UK, along with brand development that take years of establishment. Another is that the retail business is in an advantage in the UK which means that there is little scope for new entrants. Local knowledge is not enough in the retail business, which contributes another difficulty on the side of the foreign firms. For instance, Tesco may have cornered the market for certain goods; the new supermarket will not be able to find cheap, reliable suppliers. Tesco also has the advantage of economies of scale. It will pay a lot less for large volumes of goods from suppliers. A new, small supermarket chain can only buy a relatively small volume of goods, at greater expense.
Threats of Substitutes
This is one contributor is industry rivalries. As part of the threat of substitutes, Tesco has competition from companies from Sainsbury that can provide substitutes for their goods. This drives the prices of groceries down in both companies. This kind of threat may a low classification because the consumer viewed the business as part of their necessity. The retail market is always trying to find accessibility on new innovations with respect to the products and other business to make shopping a good experience for the consumers, which is difficult to substitute no matter how much effort the competitor put into.
Technology has received an extensive amount of study over the years. The research has produced the following typology of technology:
- Long-linked technology, in which many operations are interdependent, such as an assembly line
- Mediating technology, in which otherwise independent units are linked by following procedures, such as bank tellers who all serve customers in an isolated way but do so according to the bank's rules
- Intensive technology, in which the task sequence is unique and depends on feedback from the object being acted upon. Hospitals exhibit this technology in that patients are acted upon differentially and each action depends on their response (improvement or deterioration of their condition) to prior actions.
As organizations move from one type of technology to another, the demand for rigid rules or flexibility changes. While cooperation is significant in all three technologies-later stages of an assembly line cannot function smoothly if earlier stages falter, just as the surgical team requires intense cooperation to succeed-more flexibility and communication is needed in intensive technology than in the other two forms.
Koch companies are involved in core industries such as the manufacturing, refining and distribution[1] of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching,[2] finance, commodities trading, as well as other ventures and investments.
In 2008, Forbes called it the second largest privately held company in the United States (after Cargill) with an annual revenue of about $98 billion,[3][4][5] down from the largest in 2006. If Koch Industries were a public company in 2007, it would rank about 16 in the Fortune 500.[6]
Fred C. Koch, for whom Koch Industries, Inc. is named, co-founded the company in 1940 and developed an innovative crude oil refining process.[7] His sons, Charles G. Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, and David H. Koch, executive vice president, are principal owners of the company after they bought out their brothers, Frederick and William for $1.1 billion in 1983.[8] Charles and David H. Koch each own 42% of Koch Industries, and Charles has stated that the company will publicly offer shares "literally over my dead body"
CEO
Charles Koch
CFO
Steve Feilmeier
COO
David Robertson
Communication
MC
Communication
TJ
Public Affairs
KS
Vice President
DK
The entry has many barriers and the first one is that the retails need a lot of investment for its sophisticated factors within the UK, along with brand development that take years of establishment. Another is that the retail business is in an advantage in the UK which means that there is little scope for new entrants. Local knowledge is not enough in the retail business, which contributes another difficulty on the side of the foreign firms. For instance, Tesco may have cornered the market for certain goods; the new supermarket will not be able to find cheap, reliable suppliers. Tesco also has the advantage of economies of scale. It will pay a lot less for large volumes of goods from suppliers. A new, small supermarket chain can only buy a relatively small volume of goods, at greater expense.
Threats of Substitutes
This is one contributor is industry rivalries. As part of the threat of substitutes, Tesco has competition from companies from Sainsbury that can provide substitutes for their goods. This drives the prices of groceries down in both companies. This kind of threat may a low classification because the consumer viewed the business as part of their necessity. The retail market is always trying to find accessibility on new innovations with respect to the products and other business to make shopping a good experience for the consumers, which is difficult to substitute no matter how much effort the competitor put into.
Technology has received an extensive amount of study over the years. The research has produced the following typology of technology:
- Long-linked technology, in which many operations are interdependent, such as an assembly line
- Mediating technology, in which otherwise independent units are linked by following procedures, such as bank tellers who all serve customers in an isolated way but do so according to the bank's rules
- Intensive technology, in which the task sequence is unique and depends on feedback from the object being acted upon. Hospitals exhibit this technology in that patients are acted upon differentially and each action depends on their response (improvement or deterioration of their condition) to prior actions.
As organizations move from one type of technology to another, the demand for rigid rules or flexibility changes. While cooperation is significant in all three technologies-later stages of an assembly line cannot function smoothly if earlier stages falter, just as the surgical team requires intense cooperation to succeed-more flexibility and communication is needed in intensive technology than in the other two forms.
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