Does the film Huang tudi (Yellow Earth) offer a critique of the Communist revolution? If so where and how? Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou’s Yellow Earth is a meaningful and controversial film that highlights the young and old, realist and idealist, as well as the ideal utopia and bounded bureaucracies – touching on the notion of fate. Set in early 1939 in China, Yellow Earth follows the story of Gu Qing, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) soldier sent out among the peasants in Northern Shaanxi to collect
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DETERMINATION MACROECON OMICS VARIAB LES AN D S TOCK RETU RN : A CAS E OF F IN AN CE S E CTOR AN D TRAD IN G & S ERVICE S E CTOR IN MALAYS IA P a u lin e Ch ee Ba ch elor of F in a n ce (H on ou r s) 2010 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction Stock market is a place for listed companies to raise capital .Companies can use the capital for continuing operating activities and expand business. However, the investors are explained to get a positive return from dividend and capital
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0-7656-1304-2 (hardcover) Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z 39.48-1984. ~ MV (c) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CHAPTER TITLE 5 REVIEW OF MARKETING RESEARCH EDITOR: NARESH K. MALHOTRA, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Editorial Board Rick P. Bagozzi, Rice University Ruth Bolton, Arizona State University George Day
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A Stakeholder Model of Organizational Leadership Author(s): Marguerite Schneider Source: Organization Science, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 2002), pp. 209-220 Published by: INFORMS Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3085994 Accessed: 30/07/2010 02:12 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained
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Information Asymmetry, Signaling, and Share Repurchase Jin Wang Lewis D. Johnson School of Business Queen‟s University Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada Email: jwang@business.queensu.ca ljohnson@business.queensu.ca February 2008 We acknowledge helpful comments from participants at the presentation of an earlier version of this paper at the 2006 European FMA Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. 1 We examine whether share repurchase announcements or actual share repurchases provide reliable signals
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thank our colleagues Han-Sung Park and Su Hyeon Lee for external and internal analysis assistance. We thank Dr. Harm-Jan Steenhuis, for providing advice and encouragement as well as valuable support and assistance throughout the project. Executive Summary Over the last two years of loosing profit, InnoBus has made clear a need for the company to have an effective decision to solve this problem. Negative impacts of the current operation and strategy (or lack thereof), has further emphasized this need
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study In any educational system there are three primary aspects of the learning-teaching process which are geared towards its end goal- that of growth and progress in knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes of the students. First, educational goals are established either implicitly or explicitly. Secondly, learning experiences are designed to carry out the attainment of the goals. Finally, an evaluation is conducted to determine the extent
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Journal of Operations Management 25 (2007) 65–82 www.elsevier.com/locate/jom The impact of enterprise systems on corporate performance: A study of ERP, SCM, and CRM system implementations Kevin B. Hendricks a,1, Vinod R. Singhal b,*, Jeff K. Stratman b,2 b Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada N6A-3K7 College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 800 West Peachtree St., NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0520, United States Available online
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Journal of Public Administration and Governance ISSN 2161-7104 2011, Vol. 1, No. 2 Training and Development Strategy and Its Role in Organizational Performance Abdus Sattar Niazi (Corresponding Author) MS Scholar, Iqra University Islamabad Campus, Pakistan Ph: +92 302 8500 777, Email: a.niazi55@hotmail.com Received: August 01, 2011 Accepted: August 11, 2011 DOI: 10.5296/jpag.v1i2.862 Abstract In the FMCG industry at global level, the business environment has changed with intense pressure on
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Valuation and the agency problem 10 Managerial ownership 11 Section Three 12 Performance of mergers and acquisitions 12 Performance indicators 12 Methodology 13 Profitability 13 Performance due to the motivation 14 Conclusion 15 Summary and findings 15 Areas of future research 17 Qualitative research in M&A’s 17 Decision making process for methods of payment 17 Unified methodology in determining M&A performance 17 References 19 Abstract Mergers and acquisitions
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