City, Edo State, Nigeria Correspondence: Amos O. Arowoshegbe Ph.D; ACA., Department of Accounting, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria. Tel: 234-80-3742-2421. E-mail: futona4christ2@gmail.com Received: October 15, 2013 doi:10.5430/ijfr.v5n1p107 Accepted: October 31, 2013 Online Published: January 10, 2014 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijfr.v5n1p107 Abstract The study examined the relationship between shareholders’ wealth and debt-equity mix of quoted companies in Nigeria. The
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Viewed in this light, enterprise risk management represents a tool for managing risk in a way that enables the corporation to take advantage of valueenhancing opportunities. A missed strategic opportunity can result in a greater loss of (potential) value than an unfortunate incident or adverse change in prices or markets. As in the past, many organizations continue to address risk in “silos,” with the management of insurance, foreign exchange risk, operational risk, credit risk, and commodity risks
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Crina O. Tarasi, Ruth N. Bolton, Michael D. Hutt, & Beth A. Walker Balancing Risk and Return in a Customer Portfolio Marketing managers can increase shareholder value by structuring a customer portfolio to reduce the vulnerability and volatility of cash flows. This article demonstrates how financial portfolio theory provides an organizing framework for (1) diagnosing the variability in a customer portfolio, (2) assessing the complementarity/similarity of market segments, (3) exploring market
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luxury group. Findings – Through the identification of intra-business group synergies, it is clear that the transference of brand management expertise and competence is the principal dimension of parenting advantage in the Gucci Group. Originality/value – From an examination of the Gucci Group’s brand management strategy, resource investments and business development activities, the paper proposes a model of the luxury fashion brand. This multi-dimensional model identifies the components of the luxury
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that the supermarket managers showed concentrate their positioning strategies not only on the utilitarian dimension but also on the hedonic motivations to stimulate SLO, especially for older and higher income segments of customers. Originality/value – The major contribution of the study is to empirically examine the role of hedonic motivations in SLO in
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mim@hec.unil.ch. © IUMI/HEC, 2003 Version: (A) 2003-09-10 Disney www.disney.com is the biggest entertainment company in the world with a market value of US$38 billion, and one of the oldest, continuously operating since 1923. Today it is comprised of filmed entertainment businesses, major media networks, publishing, theme parks, resorts, a cruise-line, real estate, and consumer products. Disney‟s first international park opened in Tokyo, Japan in 1983. Tokyo Disneyland opened with a flourish and
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Market Report 2014 Ninth Edition January 2014 Edited by Leah Tutt ISBN 978-1-78304-102-2 Further & Higher Education Further & Higher Education Foreword In today’s competitive business environment, knowledge and understanding of your marketplace is essential. With over 30 years’ experience producing highly respected off-the-shelf publications, Key Note has built a reputation as the number one source of UK market information. Below are just a few of the comments our business partners
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in which few persons took responsibility until it was too late. — Richard Thornburgh, former U.S. attorney general1 On July 21, 2002, WorldCom Group, a telecommunications company with more than $30 billion in revenues, $104 billion in assets, and 60,000 employees, filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Between 1999 and 2002, WorldCom had overstated its pretax income by at least $7 billion, a deliberate miscalculation that was, at the time, the largest
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f e a t u r e a r t I C Le 647 Interaction Effects of Globalization and Institutional Forces on International HRM Practice: Illuminating the ConvergenceDivergence Debate By Yongsun Paik Irene Hau-Siu Chow Charles M. Vance In the face of globalization, scholars continue to debate about whether a convergence in human resources practices will prevail, or a trend of divergence perspective will persist. Building on institution theory, this article helps to explicate this debate by examining
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The Discipline of Innovation by Peter F Drucker . Reprint r0208f August 2002 HBR Case Study The Sputtering R&D Machine Martha Craumer r0208a Voices Inspiring Innovation Creativity Under the Gun Teresa M. Amabile, Constance N. Hadley, and Steven J. Kramer r0208b r0208c The Failure -Tolerant Leader Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes r0208d r0208e Breaking Out of the Innovation Box John D. Wolpert Best of HBR The Discipline of Innovation Peter F Drucker . r0208f r0208g r0208h r0208j Research
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