1. ABSTRACT Application is a full-featured mapping program, designed to create a digital mind that can help you visually organize almost any sort of process or project as a dynamic, interconnected system of Thoughts. Application gives you a fairly intuitive interface for collecting, organizing, viewing, and navigating ideas, tasks, Web sites, related documents, and more. For example an organization if receives a project that is of large maintenance that is a project which requires a duration of
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The Positive Effect of a Market Orientation on Business Profitability: A Balanced Replication Stanley F. Slater UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, BOTHELL John C. Narver UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE Narver and Slater’s (1990) finding of a positive relationship between market orientation and business profitability is retested in a broad sample of product and service businesses operating in a variety of industries. The assessment of the extent of market orientation is provided by the chief marketing
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The Downsizing Phenomenon Worldwide Downsizing as a management tool was first introduced in the US during the mid-20th century. It refers to the process of reducing the number of employees on the operating payroll by way of terminations, retirements or spin-offs. The process essentially involves the dismissal of a large portion of a company's workforce within a very short span of time. From the management's point of view, downsizing can be defined as 'a set of organizational activities undertaken
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methods or aims, in order to develop and deal with new situations or markets: Sometimes deep organizational change is necessary in order to maintain a competitive edge. EXAMPLE OF AN INDUSTRY BASED: THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS Industry associations pay significant roles in the newspaper industry at the national, regional, and global levels. They are particularly important to members because newspaper firms engage in little research and development on their own, have historically
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SECTION 1 - INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study Listed companies use financial statements as one of the major medium of communication with their stakeholders. Therefore, stock market regulators and accounting standards setters trying to improve the quality of financial statements in order to increase the transparency level in financial reporting. (Vishnani S., Shah B.K., 2008). Financial reporting by companies is effected via the preparation and publication of financial statements
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WP/09/173 Counterparty Risk, Impact on Collateral Flows, and Role for Central Counterparties Manmohan Singh and James Aitken © 2009 International Monetary Fund WP/09/173 IMF Working Paper Monetary and Capital Markets Department Counterparty Risk, Impact on Collateral Flows and Role for Central Counterparties Prepared by Manmohan Singh and James Aitken 1 Authorized for distribution by Inci Ötker-Robe August 2009 Abstract This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the
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Budget Deficits, National Saving, and Interest Rates William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag September 2004 Brookings Institution and Tax Policy Center. This paper was prepared for the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, September 9-10, 2004. We thank Emil Apostolov, Matt Hall, Brennan Kelly, and Melody Keung for outstanding research assistance; Alan Auerbach, William Brainard, Robert Cumby, Bill Dickens, Doug Elmendorf, Eric Engen, Laurence Kotlikoff, Thomas Laubach, Maria Perozek, George
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Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness Author(s): Mark Granovetter Source: American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Nov., 1985), pp. 481-510 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2780199 . Accessed: 18/10/2013 11:39 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that
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To Study the Impact of Advertisement on the Brand Preference towards Aerated Drinks ( In Jalandhar City ) Submitted to Lovely Professional University In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Submitted By Group 22 Supervisor Manish Rajput Lecturer LSM Name Mr. Brajdeep Mr. Sayeem Rafiq Mr.Manveer Roll No 40 42 45 Regd. No 10805062 10807184 10804985 DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY PHAGWARA (2010)
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