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a respectable 2.2 percent, driven by business fixed investment and exports. Private consumption has failed to support …'s most important macroeconomic policy issue. Corporate performance continues to improve, but faces new restructuring … aggregate demand and corporate profits. Recent appreciation of the yen, as a result of the global credit crunch and financial …
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managers operating in today’s international hospitality and tourism industry. The movement of labour across the world … international hotel companies and their human resources, and a research project investigating the teaching of intercultural … awareness and intercultural communication skills in international hospitality and tourism programmes, the case study identifies …
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The relationships between risk and performance were tested employing within and between analyses at the level of strategic groups in three different industries. As hypothesized, systematic risk did not exhibit a consistent relationship with performance. By contrast, all of the total...
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Value-based management systems concentrate on actions that generate value for the shareholders in the wealth creation process (Fisher 1995; Lieber 1996; Walbert 1994). This study focuses explicitly on profitability, growth, and capital intensity as drivers of the value of the firm by extending a free...
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tax executives and their work environments. Two hundred twenty-three corporate tax executives provided questionnaire …, satisfaction with corporate policies, and job/task competence. Additionally, recent studies have suggested the importance of such … specific personal characteristic--certification and licensure (credentials)--on the person-organization fit between corporate …
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Although Information Technology (IT) solutions improve the collection and validation of operational data, Operations Managers must often rely on self-reported data from workers to make decisions. The problem with this data is that they are subject to intentional manipulation, thus reducing their...
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We compare top management compensation among prospector, defender, and analyzer strategic types, and the effects of differences in managers' employment risks, firm performance, and firm size. Prospectors performed better and they paid their top management group more than did analyzers. They were...
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international nature of aviation, in addition to the lock-in effect associated with existing fossil-fuel driven technology, the …There is an increasing global interest in sustainable aviation technologies as a result of concerns associated with the … present aviation paradigm is not well equipped for a massive or rapid technological transition. This paper first provides an …
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The purpose of this thesis is to determine US firms’ motivations for foreign direct investment and to explore to what extent US firms continue to invest into China and India. I first correlate the agricultural, industrial, and service sectors in the United States with those of China and India....
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complexity in today’s business climate: interaction effects, strategic complexity, ecological complexity, and reflexive … Intensive Course Wednesday Colloquium, held at The University of Sydney Business School in July 2011. This presentation gives an … Sydney Business School; The University of Sydney Business School; Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy; School of …
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