E-GOST TSER Contract of the European Union HPSE-CT-2002-50026 (Thematic Network) 1st workshop : April 3rd –4th, 2003 (Strasbourg) RESOURCES AND COMPETENCES PERSPECTIVES ON STRATEGY OF THE FIRM: A discussion of the central arguments F. Amesse, A. Avadikyan, P. Cohendet Introduction: In 1994, Wernerfelt received an award for the best paper of the decade in Strategic Management Review (A resource-based view of the firm, 1984). Considering the fortune of the article among practicing
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UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI INSTITUTE OF DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Implications of Global International Monetary Policy Decision on Economic Systems in East Africa: A Case Study of Kenya NAME: LILLIAN WACHIRA REG NO: R50/63875/2010 Supervisor: Dr. Gerrishon Ikiara A Research Proposal submitted in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Masters of Arts in International
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Contents IntroductionDay 1MarketingDay 2Ethics Day 3AccountingDay 4Organizational BehaviorDay 5Quantitative AnalysisDay 6 FinanceDay 7OperationsDay 8Economics Day 9StrategyDay 10MBA Mini-Courses ResearchPublic SpeakingNegotiating International BusinessBusiness LawTenDay MBA DiplomaAppendix: Quantitative Analysis TablesBibliographyMBA Abbreviation LexiconIndex AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorPraise for the Ten-Day MBACopyrightAbout the Publisher Introduction After I earned my MBA, I had a chance
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stakeholders to take responsibility for their business activities. In view of stakeholder pressure, companies have developed and implemented CSR policies and practices. However, the effectiveness of these CSR policies and practices is questionable as the effects of companies activities have negatively impacted the lives of their stakeholders and continue to do so (Amao, 2013). There is extensive research being carried out on understanding the effectiveness of multinationals CSR practices as there exists
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3G MOBILE LICENSING POLICY: FROM GSM TO IMT-2000 A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS GSM Case Study This case has been prepared by Audrey Selian , ITU. 3G Mobile Licensing Policy: GSM Case Study is part of a series of Telecommunication Case Studies produced under the New Initiatives program of the Office of the Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The author wishes to acknowledge the valuable guidance and direction of Tim Kelly and Fabio Leite of the ITU in the development
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direction for the people who occupied in the organization. The United States appears to be strewn with evidence of managerial failure. Whole industries – autos, steel, consumer electronics and others – have decreased victim to more aggressive, more efficient overseas competitors. The American economy is afflicted with stagnating productivity, high unemployment and the debilitating combination of surging inflation and high interest rates. The average age of the nation’s plant and equipment is about 20
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................................. Net Present Value and Capital Budgeting ............................................................... Risk Analysis, Real Options, and Capital Budgeting .............................................. Capital Market Theory: An Overview ..................................................................... Return and Risk: The Capital-Asset-Pricing Model (CAPM) .................................. An Alternative View of Risk and Return: The Arbitrage Pricing Theory
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Corporate Social Responsibility Theories: Mapping the Territory Elisabet Garriga, ` ´ Domenec Mele ABSTRACT. The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) field presents not only a landscape of theories but also a proliferation of approaches, which are controversial, complex and unclear. This article tries to clarify the situation, ‘‘mapping the territory’’ by classifying the main CSR theories and related approaches in four groups: (1) instrumental theories, in which the corporation is seen as only
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financial theory emerged in the 1980s; one which did not build on fundamental cornerstones but from the world of psychology, called Behavioral Finance. The theories within Behavioral Finance also offered a new perspective when explaining market movements. The market is determined by people who can not always be considered rational in their investment decisions, especially not during times of financial distress
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Institute (ETSI) 14 2.2.4 The “Frequency Band” Obstacle Course 14 2.2.5 The Conclusion of the Interstate Bargain 15 2.2.6 The Launch 15 2.2.7 The United States and the FCC 16 2.3 The GSM Market 16 2.3.1 The GSM Success Story 16 2.3.2 Future Market Development 17 2.4 Licensing GSM 18 2.4.1 GSM Radio Spectrum 19 3 A Look Ahead at IMT-2000 19 3.1 From GSM to IMT-2000 19 3.1.1 HSCSD (High-Speed Circuit Switched Data) 22 3.1.2 GPRS
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