Transportation & Logistics Transportation & Logistics 2030 Volume 1: How will supply chains evolve in an energy-constrained, low-carbon world? PricewaterhouseCoopers 1 Acknowledgements The editorial board of this issue of our Transportation & Logistics 2030 series consisted of the following individuals: PricewaterhouseCoopers European Business School Supply Chain Management Institute Dr. Heiko von der Gracht +49 611 3601 8800 vdgracht@supplyinstitute.org Tobias Gnatzy +49 611 3601
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Management Report 2008 © 2009, Nestlé S.A., Cham and Vevey (Switzerland) The Management Report contains forward looking statements which reflect Management’s current views and estimates. The forward looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include such factors as general economic conditions, foreign exchange fluctuations, competitive
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JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY H o w to mo tiv a te a ss emb ly lin e wo rke r s Master Thesis within Business Administration. Subject: Management. Authors: Valdete Jusufi Maja Saitović Supervisor: Karl Erik Gustafsson Jönköping May, 2007. Master Thesis within Business Administration. Subject: Management. Title: Authors: Tutor: Date: Subject terms: How to motivate assembly line workers Valdete Jusufi & Maja Saitović Karl Erik Gustafsson 2007-05-28 assembly
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Digital could make up for loss of print Online publishers and news websites enjoyed advertising growth of 18% last year according to the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) and Deloitte. Their data indicates that digital revenues grew at their fastest rate since 2008; this has been attributed to the rise of mobile, since advertising on smartphones rose by 60% in the last quarter of 2013. Deloitte says it expects publishers to innovate with flexible pricing such as a mixture of paid-for
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SECOND 21ST CENTURY ACADEMIC FORUM CONFERENCE AT HARVARD MARCH 8 - 10, 2015 MARTIN CONFERENCE CENTER HARVARD UNIVERSITY BOSTON, MA USA Teaching, Learning, and Research in the “Just Google It” Age CONFERENCE PROCEEDING VOL. 5, NO.1 ISSN: 2330-1236 Table of Contents Authors Paper Title Page Maryam Abdu Investigating Capital Structure Decisions and Its Effect on the Nigerian Capital Market 1 Norsuhaily Abu Bakar Rahimah Embong Ibrahim Mamat Ruzilawati Abu Bakar Idris Abd. Hamid Holistically
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brand. The Group has established an extensive supply chain management system, and a distribution and retail network in the PRC primarily through outsourcing of manufacturing operations and distribution via franchised agents. The Group also directly manages retail stores for the LI-NING brand. The Group adopts a multi-brand business development strategy. In addition to its core LI-NING brand, the Group distributes sports products under its Z-DO brand via hypermarket channel. The Group has established a
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is a live and generating resource. Manpower utilizes other resources and gives output. If manpower is not available then other resources are useless and cannot produce anything. Out of all the factors of production manpower has the highest priority and is the most significant factor of production and plays a pivotal role in areas of productivity and quality. In case, lack of attention to the other factors those are non-living may result in reduction of profitability to some extent. But ignoring the
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profitable future. 003 004 QANTAS ANNUAL REPORT 2012 Heading For the Qantas Group, 2011/2012 was a year of transformation. We recorded an Underlying Profit Before Tax* despite significant challenges. We continued to build Qantas’ strong domestic network, Jetstar and Qantas Frequent Flyer. And we launched a five-year plan to turn around Qantas’ international network. FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2012 *For explanations of non-statutory measures see the Review of Operations. 005 Building
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and am a professor of management and leadership at the University of Jyväskylä, with a solid academic track record. My main academic work has been research in the area of business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Based on my research I have written around a hundred publications, of which about fifty can be seen as scientifically significant, in one way or another. I started as a business leadership major at the University of Jyväskylä in 1977. General studies sparked my interest
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Contents Abstract 5 Acknowledgment 6 1. Introduction 7 1.1 Research Overview 7 1.2 Aims and Objectives 7 1.3 Research Questions 8 1.4 Structure of the Dissertation 8 2. Literature Review 10 2.1 Introduction 10 2.2 The 21st Century Business Environment 10 2.3 The Notion of Technology 11 2.4 The SWOT Framework 14 3. Research Methodology 17 3.1 Introduction 17 3.2 Justification of Theoretical Approach 17 3.3 Research Paradigm 17 3.4 Research Methodology 18 3.5 Ethical considerations
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