by the entrance of foreign competition in a market formerly dominated by US auto manufacturers and the oil shock of the 70s. The expensive gasoline has started a trend in the auto industry for fuel efficiency resulting in ever increasing emission standards. With the resulting loss of domestic market share, ACF is facing intense competition from not only other suppliers but other Bridgeton plants as well. The task of remaining cost competitive is daunting as outsourcing seems to be catching on as a
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Journal of Banking & Finance 27 (2003) 103–131 www.elsevier.com/locate/econbase The impact of the manager–shareholder conflict on acquiring bank returns Marcia Millon Cornett a,*, Gayane Hovakimian b, Darius Palia c, Hassan Tehranian d,* a Department of Finance, College of Business, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA b Graduate School of Business, Fordham University, New York, NY 10023, USA c Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA d Carroll
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In this study pollutant CO, BC, PM were measured to determine the ambient air quality in Noida, U.P.. Traffic congestion increases vehicle exhaust emissions resulting of which ambient air quality degraded. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of traffic related air pollution at various sites in Noida. To determined the health effects in locations , questionnaires were prepared and distributed to selected individuals each who live and work in the selected area Key word index : traffic
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Research report Job Services Australia: design and implementation lessons for the British context by Dan Finn Department for Work and Pensions Research Report No 752 Job Services Australia: design and implementation lessons for the British context Dan Finn A report of research carried out by the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions © Crown copyright 2011. You may re-use this information (not including logos) free of charge in
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owned and operated two identical leisure centres, but sold one of them in 20X0 to a private leisure company, Totaleisure, who continue to manage a successful leisure business. Totaleisure have kindly provided Wizard with recent operating and financial data to permit a comparative study to be undertaken. The two leisure centres both offer the same four activities: Squash,
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perfectly efficient. The major objective of this study is to check the weak form of efficiency and presence of calendar anomalies in equity markets of developing and developed countries. On the basis of most recent and relatively longer horizon (14 Year) data on daily basis and a range of powerful econometrics this study suggested that in broader sense both of developed and developing equity markets are weak form inefficient. Hence there is no remarkable difference in term of market efficiency in equity
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ate Aptitude Test in Engineering GATE 2014 Brochure Table of Contents 1. Introduction .............................................................................................................1 2. About GATE 2014 ......................................................................................................1 2.1. Financial Assistance ............................................................................................................................ 1 2.2 Employment ...
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A NPSTC Public Safety Communications Report The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council is a federation of organizations whose mission is to improve public safety communications and interoperability through collaborative leadership. Defining Public Safety Grade Systems and Facilities Final Report 5/22/2014 Support to NPSTC provided by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, Office for Interoperability and Compatibility (OIC), and the National
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Term Paper: Project Managers and Ethics, Leadership, and Technology Jessica Tyra Dr. Russ White CIS517 May 17, 2015 The Different Organizational Structures There are three different organizational structures in regards to project management, and each has their specific pros and cons associated with their method. A functional organizational structure is one that is best when the focus is a single product. Functional structures aren’t designed to change quickly, and they are the
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introduced by Harvard business professor Robert Kaplan and business consultant David Norton, is a performance measurement system (Peters, 2014). In the early 90s, as the concept of the balanced scorecard was introduced, companies largely used financial standards to measure performance. The financial evaluations were highly focused and lacked an evaluation of strategic objective (Janes, 2014). The balanced scorecard provides performance measurement that includes four main perspectives including financial
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