Consumers shopping in a foreign environment evaluate prices based on the relationship between the local currency's face value and their home currency. The face value effect suggests that when a foreign currency is a multiple of domestic currency (HDCs), consumers overestimate the actual value....

The paper describes the activities of venture capitalists as an orderly process involving five sequential steps. These are (1) Deal Origination: The processes by which deals enter into consideration as investment prospects, (2) Deal Screening: A delineation of key policy variables which delimit...

A phenomenon which characterised the late 1970s was the proclivity of technology oriented companies to enter consumer markets. For example, in the past five years the traditional boundaries between industrial and consumer markets have been diffused, as many electronic component manufacturers...