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The dividend strategy of Indian companies: An empirical assessment
Ghosh, Saibal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper uses firms across different ownership categories to examine the factors influencing dividend policy. The results suggest that bigger, mature and low-leveraged firms tend to pay more dividends. As well, the findings suggest that bigger, less profitable and high-leveraged firms are more...
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Strengthening SMEs to make export competitive
Das, Bhagaban; Shil, Nikhil Chandra; Pramanik, Alok Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
form the backbone of industrial development in India are not export competitive and contribute only about 34 percent of … nations. India has nearly three million SMEs, which account for almost 50 per cent of industrial output. However, SMEs which … exports. It is this feature of the SMEs that make it an ideal target to realize its potential export competitive. Drawing from …
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Diasporas and international entrepreneurship – evidence from the Indian IT industry
Varma, Sumati; Bagoria, Mukesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the diaspora as a driver of international entrepreneurship in the context of the Indian IT industry. As an initial exploratory analysis of an emerging phenomenon, it is based on case studies to identify the entrepreneur’s diaspora links as a source of...
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Workforce in Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry : Exploring NSS Employment and Unemployment Survey
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The present paper examines the situation of software workers in India wherein the paper focuses on the disparities …
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Internet Kiosks in Rural India: What Influences Success?
Kendall, Jake; Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
-Logue, a franchise of over 1000 locally-owned, Internet kiosks in rural villages in India. We seek to assess how this new …
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Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development
Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
technology in reducing transaction costs, and offer some preliminary evidence from rural India to illustrate how these reductions …
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Attributes and Dynamic Development Phases of Informal ICT Consortia
Pohlmann, Tim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Theoretical and empirical analyses about informal consortia are not yet able to entirely illustrate the informal standard setting landscape. This paper tries to provide a broad and comprehensive picture of informal standards consortia and their dynamic development in the past ten years. Analyses...
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Performance Related Pay Coverage in the UK
Cowling, Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A simple model of the firms’ decision to pay workers performance related pay (PRP) is tested using company level data for 1,001 UK private sector businesses. From the basic sample statistics we observe that, on average, 26.5% of workers are covered by PRP systems. Yet this hides the fact that...
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A decomposition analysis of capital structure: evidence from Pakistan’s manufacturing sector
Javed, Attiya Yasmin; Imad, Qaisar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study investigates the determinants of the various components of debt—short- and long-term debt and their categories—in the case of nonfinancial listed firms in Pakistan for the period 2008–10. We make a significant distinction between these determinants depending on the components of...
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On the distributional properties of size, pro fit and growth of Icelandic firms
Erlingsson, Einar Jón; Alfarano, Simone; Raberto, Marco; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, we analyze the distributional properties of the balance sheets of Icelandic firms by performing an empirical analysis of total assets, profit rates and growth rates using a data set of 2818 Icelandic firms during the period 2000-2009. We find that the firms size measure, i.e....
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