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Keeping talents for advancing service firms in Asia
Zheng, S - 2009
Purpose - Skill shortages worldwide have intensified the need for talent management. Few papers examine the pattern of human resource (HR) and talent management practices that help retain competent employees among service multinational companies (MNCs) in Asia. The purpose of this paper is to...
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TQM and service quality: a survey of commercial banking industry in Malaysia
Sit, Wen-Yi; Ooi, Keng-Boon; Loke, Siew-Phaik; Han, … - In: International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 3 (2011) 1, pp. 78-91
The objective of this paper is to examine the association between Total Quality Management (TQM) practices and service quality in Malaysia's commercial banking industry. This study is based on empirical data collected from a survey of 101 middle management employees of 20 commercial banks in...
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The Richmond Fed Manufacturing and Service Sector Surveys: A User's Guide
Price, David A.; Watson, Aileen - In: Richmond Fed Economic Brief (2014) Mar, pp. 1-5
The Richmond Fed conducts monthly surveys of business conditions in the manufacturing and service sectors of the Fifth Federal Reserve District. This article provides background information on these surveys and on other manufacturing and service sector surveys.The Richmond Fed conducts monthly...
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China and India: two paths to economic power
Cox, W. Michael; Alm, Richard - In: Economic Letter 3 (2008)
The two Asian giants have achieved rapid and sustained growth -- China by focusing on goods, India by tilting toward services.
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Strategies Used by Small Business Entrepreneurs
Lussier, Robert N.; Sonfield, Matthew C.; Corman, Joel; … - In: American Journal of Business 16 (2001) 1, pp. 29-38
This descriptive study of 184 small firms identified strategies most frequently used by their managers. These strategies were identified using the Entrepreneurial Strategy Matrix, a situational model in which the identification of levels of innovation and risk lead to prescriptions of...
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Accelerated growth and structural transformation: Assessing Ghana’s options to reach middle-income status
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Yu, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
Ghana has made considerable progress over the last 20 years in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty. The Government of Ghana has declared its new development goal of reaching middle-income status by 2015. Achieving this goal will require Ghana to double its per capita income over the...
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The predictive ability of corporate narrative disclosures: Australian evidence
Smith, Malcolm; Dong, Yinan; Ren, Yun - In: Asian Review of Accounting 19 (2011) September, pp. 157-170
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between narrative disclosures and corporate performance based on Australian evidence. In particular it builds a model which discriminates between good and poor performing companies based on their corporate narratives....
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Relationship between environmental disclosures and corporate characteristics: a study of large manufacturing companies in India
Said, Roshima - In: Social Responsibility Journal 5 (2009) June, pp. 227-244
environmental disclosure practices (EDPs) of the large manufacturing Indian companies. Design/methodology/approach – The work was … done in three phases. In the first phase, an index of environmental disclosure was constructed consisting of 23 items of … companies were examined for a period of three consecutive years. Environmental disclosure score (EDS) percentages were …
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Globalization, Policy Reforms and Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence from Sri Lanka
Bandara, Yapa M.W.Y.; Karunaratne, Neil D. - In: Global Business Review 14 (2013) 3, pp. 429-451
Sri Lanka’s economic policy strategies radically moved away from inward-looking import-substituting industrialization to outward-looking export-oriented industrialization (EOI) in 1977. The EOI strategy was implemented through a broad agenda of reforms including trade liberalization,...
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HRM practices and knowledge sharing: an empirical study
Fong, Chee-Yang; Ooi, Keng-Boon; Tan, Boon-In; Lee, … - In: International Journal of Manpower 32 (2011) September, pp. 704-723
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between human resource management (HRM) practices and knowledge sharing from the Malaysian industry context. Design/methodology/approach – The method of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were...
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