nation with a rich history and years of diversity. With the rise of the global economy over the last century, it is safe to say that the country has become a major multi-national player. Although outsourcing to India has been a trend since the early 90’s, the country also has a growing local economy that is primed for investment should the right opportunity arise. However, not just any company can invest in or partner with India. Because India is rich in tradition and very slow to change its views
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Stock markets play a significant role in the wellbeing of an economy; thus efficient stock markets will positively affect the economy in a country. Concept of efficient markets was first coined by Fama(1970), describes an efficient market, as a market with fully available information to all investors, while at the same time stock prices fully reflect all the information available. Consequently, no individual investor will be able to reap profits above
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2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering Simulation and Research on Data Fusion Algorithm of the Wireless Sensor Network Based on NS2 Junguo Zhang, Wenbin Li, Xueliang Zhao, Xiaodong Bai, Chen Chen Beijing Forestry University, 35 Qinghua East Road, Haidian District,Beijing, 100083 P.R.China information which processed by the embedded system to the user terminals by means of random selforganization wireless communication network through multi-hop relay. Thus it
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MP A R Munich Personal RePEc Archive Financial management practices and their impact on organizational performance Babar Zaheer Butt and Ahmed Imran Hunjra and Kashif-Ur- Rehman Foundation University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Iqra University Islamabad Campus, Pakistan 2010 Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32685/ MPRA Paper No. 32685, posted 15. August 2012 01:05 UTC World Applied Sciences Journal 9 (9): 997-1002, 2010 ISSN 1818-4952 Financial Management Practices and Their Impact on Organizational
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Contents Introduction 3 Literature review 4 Research methodology 9 Analysis 11 Case study: Tata’s Croma 16 Findings 20 FDI in Retail in India 21 Growth drivers in India for retail sector 22 Discussion 23 FDI in INDIA SECTOR WISE 23 Conclusion 25 Bibliography 27 Introduction Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is fund flow (inflow/outflow) between the countries wherein one gains benefit from their investment whereas another can exploit the opportunity to enhance the productivity
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RAM RAMESH Office: Residence: Department of Management Science & Systems 82 Prestonwood Lane School of Management, SUNY at Buffalo East Amherst, NY 14051 Buffalo, New York 14260 Ph: (716) 688-6360 Ph: (716) 645-3258 Fax: (716)645-6117 E-Mail: rramesh@acsu.buffalo.edu Web: http://mgt.buffalo.edu/faculty/academic/systems/faculty/rramesh Education Ph.D. Industrial Engineering (Operations Research) (1985) State University of New York at Buffalo (GPA: 4.0. Awarded Ph.D with Distinction) Advisors:
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The roosters were crowing before darkness had faded in the riverside Dayak hamlet of Kunsali Patamuan in Kapuas Hulu district, West Kalimantan. Through the cracks of the timber walls in the 122 metre wide long-house, the faint sound of shuffling feet on squeaky floors penetrated to the compartments, as people went back and forth to the kitchens at the back of each living quarter. Not long afterwards, the clattering of tin kettles and stirring of teaspoons could be heard right, left and centre. The
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE November, 2003 Jorge Farinha* Keywords: agency theory, corporate governance, ownership structure JEL Classification: G300 *CETE-Centro de Estudos de Economia Industrial, do Trabalho e da Empresa, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal. Correspondence to: Jorge Farinha, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Roberto Frias, 4200 Porto, Portugal. Tel. (351)-22-5571100, Fax (351)-22-5505050. E-mail: jfarinha@fep
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Mobile Databases: a Report on Open Issues and Research Directions * Action members 1 EPFL, 2U. Grenoble, 3INRIA-Nancy, 4INT-Evry, 5U. Montpellier 2, 6U. Paris 6, 7U. Versailles Abstract This paper reports on the main results of a specific action on mobile databases conducted by CNRS in France from October 2001 to December 2002. The objective was to review the state of progress in mobile databases and identify major research directions for the French database community. This paper gives
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A Five-Year Study of File-System Metadata Nitin Agrawal University of Wisconsin, Madison nitina@cs.wisc.edu William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, Jacob R. Lorch Microsoft Research {bolosky,johndo,lorch}@microsoft.com Abstract For five years, we collected annual snapshots of filesystem metadata from over 60,000 Windows PC file systems in a large corporation. In this paper, we use these snapshots to study temporal changes in file size, file age, file-type frequency, directory size, namespace structure
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