provision of long-term instruments to finance corporate investment and housing. There is evidence of a causal relationship between insurance sector development and economic growth. However, there have been few studies examining the factors that drive the development of the insurance industry. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the determinants of insurance premiums (both life and non-life premiums) and total assets for a panel of about 90 countries during the period 2000-08. The
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“Are Mobile Phones and Tablets taking over Laptops and Desktops in driving the Media & Entertainment Industry?” Summer Internship Project Report Submitted By: Chintan Desai Roll No: 11028 Batch: PGDM 2011-13 Acknowledgment I owe a great many thanks to great many people who helped and supported me at every stage during the completion of this project. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all of them. I am highly indebted to Mrs. Chhaya (MD & CEO), BC Webwise, Mr. Elstan Rebello, Team Leader
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CHAPTER 1 Problem and its Setting Introduction Most women finding difficulties with their ordinary sanitary pads during menstrual period that’s why the researchers of this feasibility studies will give consumers the comfort they’ve been waiting for by combining the sanitary pads and negative ion. The researcher assure that the product will give the satisfaction from the money they spent by choosing the Negative-ion Infused Sanitary Pads. And even in the first try, users could really find ease
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ELECTRONIC WASTE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA–ISSUES AND STRATEGIES KURIAN JOSEPH Centre for Environmental Studies, Anna University, Chennai, India Phone: 91-44-22301283; Fax: 91-44-22354717 SUMMARY: The current practices of e-waste management in India suffer from a number of drawbacks like the difficulty in inventorisation, unhealthy conditions of informal recycling, inadequate legislation, poor awareness and reluctance on part of the corporate to address the critical issues. The consequences are that
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Organisation Studies: Experiencing Organisations Resit Exam - Case Study for section A Steve Jobs: the world pays tribute An extraordinary outpouring of emotion has greeted the death of the co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc The Guardian, Thursday 6 October 2011 The bunches of flowers began arriving outside Apple stores as morning broke around the world: a potent symbol of the extraordinary outpouring of emotion that greeted the death of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. His death
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economic context is a widely studied phenomenon with a significant body of accumulated research and theory. However, competition in the mobile phone industry, despite its prevalence in public discussion, has received significantly less attention in academic research. Within the international business (IB) context there are very few academic studies that seek to analyze and compare the different geographical mobile phone markets from the viewpoint of competition. This thesis examines competition
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after its first entry. In Taiwan it experienced relatively smoother development, although KFC headquarters was to spend a huge amount of money and effort in order to get the ownership back from its joint venture partners at a later stage.4 This case was written by Gabriel Szulanski, Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, Weiru Chen, Assistant Professor of Strategy, and Jennifer Lee, Research Associate. It is intended to be used as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective
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BSc (HONS) in Business Information System BIS3012 – Customer Relationship Management Field Research – Customer Relationship Management Tutor: Dr. Lakshimi Narasimhan Chari Date of submission: 9th December 2011 ABSTRACT. Relationship Management is the most strongest and most efficient approach in maintaining relationship with customers. Businesses base on the customers as the famous saying, “Customers are always right” The impact of CRM in the commercial world cannot be undervalued
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Introduction OLPC is a relatively new project. Nicolas Negroponte first announced his idea of a low-cost laptop to be used by children at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2005. Although this was the culmination of decades‟ worth of work from Negroponte, as far back as distributing microcomputers to school children in Dakar in 1982, the first XO deployment only took place in February 2007, with mass production beginning in November of that year. The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is
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first to build market share. This is especially true is the followers are established industry giants who move into a new market much later with their “vast pre-existing customer sets”. This often spells end-game for the pioneers who, in their complacence, have fallen prey to a more detrimental kind of inertia- Incumbent Inertia. Mr. Collins cites the example of VisiCalc, now virtually forgotten as the first major PC spreadsheet, as the late entrant Excel still reigns supreme. The author moves on to
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