"With Lenovo, what isn't reflected is that they have a strong position in China, which means that they have efficiencies which other vendors can't leverage," explains Labesque.
"If you want to hit the influencers in the music space, from industry power players to the talent itself, [the VMAs are] a period you can leverage," explains Nathan Ellis, founder of Syndicate, the firm behind sponsor Virgin Mobile's "Penny for a Text" post-show party.
"Their disunity gives us leverage," she explained.
It is leverage that explains why property busts have a habit of causing financial crises.Property is also an inefficient asset class.
An empirical analysis of the stock market reaction to 72 global alliances by listed Spanish companies confirmed the importance of complementarity and leverage in explaining abnormal returns, and the irrelevance of the region of origin of the partner.
This is almost as important as weak bargaining leverage in explaining why workers' real wages are not growing.The stockmarket's rise this year and the generally upbeat tone to the economic data suggest the problem of weak demand may, bit by bit, be lifting.
But union leverage does explain it.
It is well provided with logistics for organizing large training programs and conferences, and we will try to leverage that," explains Gardellin.
"Being able to open any door, giving really good guidance, and having lived the experience personally gives us a lot of leverage" he explains.
The ABV has recently been used as a theoretical lens in the business sustainability literature for example, the ABV was leveraged to explain corporate social responsibility and performance (Zhao et al., 2016), climate change adaptation (Pinske and Gasbarro, 2016; Galbreath, 2011), and green information system practices adoption (Hedman and Henningsson, 2016).
The B Corp brand tells people who we are and we can leverage that for growth," explained Sharon Rowe of Eco-Bags Products.
