FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BY KHUSHDEEP KUMAR DHARNI (Regn No. 9040751) SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES THAPAR UNIVERSITY (DEEMED UNIVERSITY) PATIALA – 147002 PUNJAB – INDIA February 2010 1 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I am grateful to Almighty for enabling me to come through this task and bow to my Gurudev Shri Swami Vidyanand Ji for being the source of enlightenment in my life. I am indebted to my revered supervisors, Dr. R.K
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Part 1 PA R T The Strategic Human Resource Management Model A human resource department helps organizations and their employees attain their goals. But it faces many challenges along the way. This chapter explores some of these challenges and outlines a strategic human resource management model upon which the rest of this book builds. The Strategic Human Resource Management Model Environmental Analysis Organizational Mission and Goals Analysis Analysis of Organizational Strengths
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function of marketing and markets as the key driver and shaper of any organisation and the integration of marketing with other business and commercial disciplines. Students who successfully complete MARK 101 will have the knowledge and ability to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Describe commonly used marketing concepts and terminology Summarise the main marketing tools of products and services, pricing, distribution and communications Explain social responsibility and ethics as they pertain to marketing
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..............................4 Preface 6 Chapter 1 Main findings............................................................................................7 1.1. Intermediary providers and certain online merchants have benefitted already.......12 1.2. Cross border trade and productivity growth.........................................................12 1.3. Contractual obligations in consumer contracts may hinder cross border trade......14 Chapter 2 The impact of specific provisions.........
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BIS Working Papers No 420 On the correlation between commodity and equity returns: implications for portfolio allocation by Marco Lombardi and Francesco Ravazzolo Monetary and Economic Department July 2013 JEL classification: C11, C15, C53, E17, G17. Keywords: Commodity prices, equity prices, density forecasting, correlation, Bayesian DCC. BIS Working Papers are written by members of the Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank for International Settlements, and from time to time
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Digital Image Processing: PIKS Inside, Third Edition. William K. Pratt Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBNs: 0-471-37407-5 (Hardback); 0-471-22132-5 (Electronic) DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING PIKS Inside Third Edition WILLIAM K. PRATT PixelSoft, Inc. Los Altos, California A Wiley-Interscience Publication JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. New York • Chichester • Weinheim • Brisbane • Singapore • Toronto Designations used by companies to distinguish their products
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E S S S C H O O L P R E S S BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( W. Chan Kim Renée Mauborgne Copyright 2005 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 09 08 07 06 05 5 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the publisher
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focused research question. Delimitation: The focus of this study is on research published in scientific journals from 2002 until 2012. Method: A literature review was performed including peer-reviewed papers published in scientific journals. Database search were performed in Business Source Premier (BSP) with the keywords “Corporate social responsibility” and “accounting”, and the time limit was set to 2002-2012. Results and conclusions: The main result is shown in Table A1, which presents
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