Introduction The Internet is the decisive technology of the Information Age, as the electrical engine was the vector of technological transformation of the Industrial Age. This global network of computer networks, largely based nowadays on platforms of wireless communication, provides ubiquitous capacity of multimodal, interactive communication in chosen time, transcending space. The Internet is not really a new technology: its ancestor, the Arpanet, was fist deployed in 1969 (Abbate 1999). But
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leadership has moved to reduce the government's role in the economy and to promote private sector investment and competition. It has significantly reduced tariffs and exports subsidies, loosened exchange controls, cut the secondary tax on corporate dividends, and improved enforcement of intellectual
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eurojournals.com Dividend Policy: A Review of Theories and Empirical Evidence Husam-Aldin Nizar Al-Malkawi Corresponding Author, Faculty of Business, ALHOSN University P.O. Box 38772 - Abu Dhabi, UAE E-mail: h.almalkawi@alhosnu.ae Michael Rafferty Senior Research Analyst, WRC, University of Sydney, Australia E-mail: m.rafferty@econ.usyd.edu.au Rekha Pillai Faculty of Business, ALHOSN University, Abu Dhabi, UAE E-mail: r.pillai@alhosnu.ae Abstract The literature on dividend policy has produced
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Kentucky Fried Chicken Today Every day, more than 12 million customers are served at KFC restaurants in 109 countries and territories around the world. KFC operates more than 5,200 restaurants in the United States and more than 15,000 units around the world. KFC is world famous for its Original Recipe® fried chicken, made with the same secret blend of 11 herbs and spices Colonel Harland Sanders perfected more than a half-century ago. Customers around the globe also enjoy more than 300 other products
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INDUSTRY PROFILE Journey of Indian stock market Indian Stock Markets are one of the oldest in Asia. Its history dates back to nearly 200 years ago. The earliest records of security dealings in India are meager and obscure. The East India Company was the dominant institution in those days and business in its loan securities used to be transacted towards the close of the eighteenth century. By 1830's business on corporate stocks and shares in Bank and Cotton presses took place in Bombay. Though
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Automotive Industry 13 Industry Analysis By: Francis Asuquo Crispin Charles Tivon James Ricky Araujo Sornrat Thawornyutikan Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 2.0 Industry Overview 4 2.1 Quantitative Overview 5 2.2 Evolution of the industry 7 2.4 Major Opportunities 12 2.5 Major Threats 12 2.6 Porters Analysis 13 Threat of Entry (Low) 13 Bargaining power of suppliers (Low) 13 Bargaining power of Buyers (High) 14 Threat of Substitutes (high) 15 Industry rivalry
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP PLAN Submitted To: Haroon Rashid (Assistant Professor) Submitted By: Zulfqar Jahangeer MBA-FA09-022 Raza Ali MBA-FA09-026 Muhammad Sharif MBA-FA09-034 Zubair Rashid MBA-FA09-036 Umair Arshad MBA-FA09-082 COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Sahiwal Table of Contents 1 Executive Summary 4 2 Company Summary 6 2.1 The Opportunity: 6 2.2 Mission 6 2.3
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GLOBALIZATION Globalization is the increasing integration of different national economies into one global market economy. It alters competitiveness conditions with the arrival of new players on the global scene and causes traditional roles to be redefined. GLOBALIZATION AS A GLOBAL TREND What seems to be a novelty is, in fact, a series of changes related primarily to the gradual removal of trade barriers, financial market deregulation, the communication technology revolution, and the impact of
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become one… IIQF is the pioneer of high-end finance education in India. It is an education initiative of top industry practitioners who have pioneered the most sophisticated financial technologies in India like Portfolio Risk Management Models and Systems and Algorithmic Trading Systems using High Performance Parallel Computing. “A mere 25% of graduates that India produces every year is actually employable. Even though India is poised to become the third largest economy in the world by 2050
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