Veggies 4U is a young and dynamic family-run greenhouse: Lucy and her husband run the business with the help of a small group of friends and colleagues who serve on the company’s Board of Directors. Lucy is preparing a report to the Board to recommend a natural gas supply contract for the next...

The extent to which service quality is linked to satisfaction, value and behavioural outcomes continues to be debated in the literature. This research investigated two models involving the linkages between service quality, satisfaction, perceived value, repurchase intention and willingness to...

This paper makes a detailed comparison of two major financial services in Singapore: life insurance and stockbrokerage. Relationships of perceptions and expectations of service quality, mean service adequacy (MSA) and mean service superiority (MSS) with service satisfaction and loyalty are...

Investment Banking is an American synonym of Merchant Banking . Merchant Banking originated in the 13th century in the European countries . As far as the origin of this term is concerned , it is told that earlier Merchants used to attend to extending of loans and arranging finance for trade but...

Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in QuickTime movie file: "Politics, Economics and Social Issues - Video - Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis." By Vanderbilt University. Paul A. Volcker, senior economic advisor to President Obama and former chairman of the Federal...

Opportunity for group study by graduate students on current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. From the course home page: Course Description This is a course on how corporations make use of the insights and tools of risk management. Most courses on derivatives,...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) mandated the expensing of stock options with FAS 123 (R). As of March 2006, 749 companies had accelerated the vesting of their employee stock options and avoided a reduction in their reported profits that otherwise would have occurred under the new...

Nicht handelbare reale Aktienoptionen sind ein beliebtes Instrument, um die variable Vergütung von Mitarbeitern mit dem Unternehmenswert zu verbinden. Für die Unternehmensseite existieren unterschiedliche Auffassungen, wie die Verpflichtung aus der Option zu bilanzieren ist. Der individuelle...