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Stratport: A Model for the Evaluation and Formulation of Business Portfolio Strategies

Larréché, Jean-Claude; Srinivasan, V. - In: Management Science 28 (1982) 9, pp. 979-1001

A decision support system to evaluate and formulate business portfolio strategies is proposed. Strategies are expressed in terms of market share objectives to be achieved in each of the N business units in the portfolio. STRATPORT evaluates a strategy in terms of the net present value of its...

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MARKETING STRATEGIES AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Veseli, Nexhbi; Aziri, Brikend; Veseli, Teuta - Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti - 2012

Even besides the internationaly proven and accepted importance of marketing strateges for the development of companies, the opinion that these strateges are underrepresented in the Republic of Macedonia exists in gjeneral. Although this might be true, in fact serious field research that would...

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Are marketing strategies implemented by SME’s in the Republic of Macedonia ?

Veseli, Nexhbi; Aziri, Brikend; Veseli, Teuta - In: Romanian Economic Journal 15 (2012) 46bis, pp. 137-152

Business strategies in general and marketing strategies in particular are a factor of significant importance when it comes to the success and long term growth of companies. This paper tends to test the generally accepted assumption that SME’s in the Republic of Macedonia do not have and...

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A survey of management views on dividend policy in Iranian firms

Pourheydari, Omid - In: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern … 2 (2009) April, pp. 20-31

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the views of chief financial officers (CFOs) of Iranian firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange about the factors influencing dividend policy in 2006. The paper aims to update and extend previous research on dividend policy to capture the...

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Risk management in Indian companies: EWRM concerns and issues

Gupta, P.K. - In: Journal of Risk Finance 12 (2011) February, pp. 121-139

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the current status of risk management in Indian companies and explore … the reasons for the adoption or lack of adoption of integrated approach to risk management. It identifies the imperatives … for implementation of comprehensive risk management solutions leading to enterprise-wide risk management (EWRM). The paper …

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Corporate dividends decisions: evidence from Saudi Arabia

Al-Ajmi, Jasim; Hussain, Hameeda Abo - In: Journal of Risk Finance 12 (2011) January, pp. 41-56

Purpose – The paper aims to test the stability of dividend policy, test the effect of cash flow on the company's dividend policy, identify the factors that determine a firm's cash dividend payments, and examine the characteristics of dividend-paying and non-paying firms....

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Dividend policy and share price volatility: UK evidence

Hussainey, Khaled; Mgbame, Chijoke Oscar; … - In: Journal of Risk Finance 12 (2011) January, pp. 57-68

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between dividend policy and share price changes in the UK stock market. Design/methodology/approach – Multiple regression analyses are used to explore the association between share price changes and both dividend yield and...

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Benchmarking airports from a managerial perspective

Adler, Nicole; Liebert, Vanessa; Yazhemsky, Ekaterina - In: Omega 41 (2013) 2, pp. 442-458

Benchmarking airports is currently popular both in the academic literature and in practice but has proved rather problematic due to the heterogeneity inherent in any reasonably sized dataset. Most studies either treat the airport production technology as a black box, or separate the terminal and...

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Study on university-business cooperation in the US

Ranga, Marina; Hoareau, Cecile; Durazzi, Niccolo; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

University-Business Cooperation (UBC) is a relationship in flux, reflecting issues specific to the transition from an industrial to a knowledge society. UBC is undergoing a transformation from a dyadic university-business relationship, aimed at solving firm problems, sourcing new products or...

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An application of multicriteria decision aid models in the prediction of open market share repurchases

Andriosopoulos, Dimitrios; Gaganis, Chrysovalantis; … - In: Omega 40 (2012) 6, pp. 882-890

This study presents the first attempt to develop classification models for the prediction of share repurchase announcements using multicriteria decision aid (MCDA) techniques. We use three samples consisting of 434 UK firms, 330 French firms, and 296 German firms, to develop country-specific...

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