Social capital is a kind of capital that draws benefits from social relation (Krishna and Uphoff 2002; Portes 1998) - predominantly describes the circumstances of an individual in groups and networks to secure benefits (Sobel 2002). While, Bourdieu (1986) described it as, an attribute of an individual in a social context derived from advantages and opportunities available to and through certain members of the community. Likewise, pioneer social capital theorist (Coleman 1988; 1990) had conceptualised
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Notes: FIN 303 Spring 09, Part 7 – Capital Budgeting Professor James P. Dow, Jr. Part 7. Capital Budgeting What is Capital Budgeting? Nancy Garcia and Digital Solutions Digital Solutions, a software development house, is considering a number of new projects, including a joint venture with another company. Digital Solutions would provide the software expertise to do the development, while the other company, American Financial Consultants (AFC) would be responsible for the marketing. Nancy Garcia
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in a corporation. The managerial finance function is defined and differentiated from economics and accounting. The chapter then summarizes the three key activities of the financial manager: financial analysis and planning, investment decisions, and financing decisions. A discussion of the financial manager’s goals—maximizing shareholder wealth and preserving stakeholder wealth—and the role of ethics in meeting these goals is presented. The chapter includes discussion of the agency problem—the conflict
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form for change of structure, business process, Human Resource (HR) alignment, communication process and employee management. A change is inevitable; the successful management of a change with buy-in from all affected quadrants is the ideal situation for InterClean to achieve the merger with EnviroTech. Such a solution can be found with the right implementation of the HR domain statement, nine step problem solving process, effective change management and conscientious decision making. The paper tries
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tools of analysis of decision science to examine how an organization can achieve it aims or objectives most efficiently. Importance of managerial economics Managerial Decision Problems Economic theory Microeconomics Macroeconomics Decision Sciences Mathematical Economics Econometrics MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS Application of economic theory and decision science tools to solve managerial decision problems OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS TO MANAGERIAL DECISION PROBLEMS Managerial Decision Problems Economic
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Development of the functional mathematical relationships that describe the decision variables, objective function and constraints of the problem. • Model Solution - Models solved using management science techniques. • Model Implementation - Actual use of the model or its solution. 1.2 Factors of production Natural resources i.e. crude oil Capital i.e. investors Labour i.e. technical and academic Entrepeneurship i.e. takes capital and link labour and natural resouces combined with risk to provide goods
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12691/jfe-2-3 Rethinking Multinational Enterprises’ Capital Budgeting in the Globalized New Millennium Fabio Pizzutilo* Department of Business and law studies, University of Bari *Corresponding author: fabio.pizzutilo@uniba.it A strict interpretation of the Ricardian assumptions on international trade leads to a conclusion in favour of the impossibility of a firm investing abroad. Even extending the Ricardian model by including capital among the factors of production, it has to be supposed
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Sole Proprietorship This is a business run by one individual for his or her own benefit. It is the simplest form of business organization. Proprietorships have no existence apart from the owners. The liabilities associated with the business are the personal liabilities of the owner, and the business terminates upon the proprietor's death. The proprietor undertakes the risks of the business to the extent of his/her assets, whether used in the business or personally owned. Single proprietors include
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Philosophy. Policies of an Organization. 2. Strategy, Strategy as planned action, Its importance, Process and advantages of planning Strategic v/s Operational Planning. 3. Decision making and problem solving. Categories of problems, Problem solving skill, Group decision making. Phases indecision making, 4. Communication Commitment and performance, Role of the leader, Manager v/s Leaders Leadership styles 5. Conventional Strategic Management v[s Unconventional Strategic Management
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