east A case study in strategic destination branding Melodena Stephens Balakrishnan University of Wollongong in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Abstract Purpose – Worldwide approximately 200 national economies are competing in the destination market. In 2006, global government and capital expenditure exceeded US$1,480 billion making destination branding an important concept that still remains fragmented and unplanned. Dubai, an emirate of the UAE in the Middle East has been chosen as a case study
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ERP implementations, 140 SCM implementations, and 80 CRM implementations. Our analysis of the financial benefits of these implementations yields mixed results. In the case of ERP systems, we observe some evidence of improvements in profitability but not in stock returns. The results for improvements in profitability are stronger in the case of early adopters of ERP systems. On average, adopters of SCM system experience positive stock returns as well as improvements in profitability. There is no evidence
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works to ensure as defect-free as possible, their end products and services. This exploration led them to the discovery of many methods to improve the quality of their work. Six Sigma is one such revolutionary concept that has transformed the manufacturing industry in the quality and excellence aspect. It changed the paradigm of
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Introduction Company Background HNW Shoe Sdn. Bhd. is a family owned shoe-manufacturing company, which was incorporated in the year 1987 by a retired army officer En. Hussein. Its primary business is to provide quality leather shoes for government agencies as part of a standard uniform throughout Malaysia. Contract with the government is procured by submitting tenders or by receiving offers, which are personally selected by the agencies themselves. Project that is above RM50, 000.00 had
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Doing Business in Ireland Team Arrow [Year] Doing Business in Ireland Team Arrow [Year] Course: INB 372 Section: 10 Semester: Fall 2015 NAME | ID | Fuad Bin Saif | 141 1722 630 | Md. Sadman Sakib | 141 1428 030 | Monis Ahmed | 141 0637 030 | Ashrafl Alam Galib | 141 0734 030 | Omar Farhan Khan | 141 1689 630 | Prepared For Krishna Biswas (GpB)
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University E-mail:Naser@cardiff.ac.uk Mohd Zulkifli Mokhtar Cardiff Business School Cardiff University E-mail:MokhtarMZ@cardiff.ac.uk Accepted for Presentation at the Fourth Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference 4 to 6 July 2004 Singapore 1 DETERMINANTS OF CORPORATE PERFORMANCE OF MALAYSIAN COMPANIES ABSTRACT This study sets out to identify factors that influence corporate financial performance in a sample of Malaysian companies during the period 1998 –2001
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1 Preliminary draft The First Global Emerging Markets Investor: Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust 1880-1913 David Chambers and Rui Esteves∗ September 2011 Abstract: The Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust (FCIT) is the oldest surviving closed end fund in the world today. Its early success was related to its identification of a missing market, namely, the provision of a wholesale diversified investment vehicle for the investing public. Whilst much research has been conducted on
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Investment Banking A Guide to Underwriting and Advisory Services Professor Giuliano Iannotta Department of Finance ` Universita Bocconi via Roentgen 1 20136 Milano Italy giuliano.iannotta@unibocconi.it ISBN: 978-3-540-93764-7 e-ISBN: 978-3-540-93765-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-93765-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009943831 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the
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4. Egyptian Case Studies Azza El-Shinnawy and Heba Handoussa INTRODUCTION This chapter presents three cases of recent foreign investment in Egypt. In the case of the Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (MobiNil), an international consortium takes over a state-run mobile phone service, and modernises its operations in a rapidly growing and transforming market. The local partner subsequently becomes a regional player in Africa and the Middle East. Glaxo Smith Kline, a leading pharmaceutical
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