CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION “Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.” Carrie P. Snow With remarkable technological advancements in third world countries like the Philippines, modern electronic gadgets play a vital role in everyone’s lives. Virtually every day, we find ourselves in situations that require us to use gadgets and devices to boost up performance in tasks we ought to do. Because of the advent of modern technology
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which is in the process of winning investment, the market crisis has collapsed all levels of local producers in the wine industry. Lack of access to bank loans for further investment, lower sales volume, changing consumer behavior were some of the factors leading to compression of the wine market. Syndrome "full stack" had subsided, customers migrating to a traditional area of trade, tempered with a greater penchant for price and quality. The trend of migration of low-price consumer segment is reflected
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(tabassum105@yahoo.com) Received: 23 June 2012 Available Online: 6 September 2012 Revised: 15 August 2012 DOI: 10.5861/ijrsm.2012.140 Accepted: 1 September 2012 Abstract In Bangladesh, lots of private commercial banks are contributing for economic growth. The performance of the banks depends on a well-structured communication system. So by maintaining an effective communication system, the banks can gain competitive advantage. Thus the study aims to investigate the communication barriers that
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subjectivity into the measure. This method may also lead to an upwardly biased estimate because an inefficient firm may incur greater cost to replace an employee (Cascio 3-4). Present Value of Future Earnings Lev and Schwartz (1971) proposed an economic valuation
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Women and their route to success: could the barriers be completely broken down? Ginna Munoz Molloy College Abstract Undoubtedly women have made extraordinary strides from the standpoint of their careers. It is now possible to see a woman running companies and occupying the most prestigious positions worldwide. However, the representation of women in business is still low in comparison with men. On one hand, many researches provide evidences of the existence of different types of discrimination
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Journal of Operations Management 17 Ž1999. 411–428 Manufacturing technology and strategy formulation: keys to enhancing competitiveness and improving performance Michael Tracey a , Mark A. Vonderembse a b,) , Jeen-Su Lim b Purdue UniÕersity, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA b UniÕersity of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606-3390, USA Received 1 July 1997; accepted 23 July 1998 Abstract Porter wPorter, M.E., 1996. What is strategy? Harvard Business Review 74 Ž6., 61–78.x claims that a
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INTRODUCTION Being entrepreneurial means combining personal characteristics, financial means and the resources available within your environment. Geoffrey G. Meredith et al (1991). As an initiator of the business, the entrepreneur relies on his inherent nature of task-result oriented, risk taking, innovative, creative and above all, futuristic to spot opportunities and take advantage. Thus, why Geoffrey G. Meredith et al (1991) defined the entrepreneur(s) as “people who have the ability to see and
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are provided by stores, and they are willing to pay for them. As for managers, attractive experiences are the products they have taken great efforts to create, manage, and sell. For academic researchers, experiences are considered as distinct economic offerings that are different from goods and services. These scholars believe that the focus of the economy has been transferred to experience (O’Sullivan, E.L., & Spangler, K.J. (1998). Experience marketing: Strategies for the new millennium.
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The International Market Selection Behavior of Thai Rice Exporters1 T. Chaiwun ABSTRACT This study focuses on the international market selection behaviour of firms within the Thai rice exporting firms located in metropolitan Thailand, an area that has previously attracted little academic research attention. In its broadest context, the research attempts to measure and explain the extent to which managers of exporting firms systematically evaluate their foreign market selection alternatives. The
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Abstract The Study of Customer Loyalty Factors in the Mobile Telecommunications Industry in China This article is a study of Chinese telecommunications service customer loyalty factors and the impact of the internal mechanism. The industry empirical study reveals the communications services industry, the impact factors of customer loyalty, and the interaction between these factors mechanism. With the increasingly fierce market competition and increase costs for customers, cultivate and maintain
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