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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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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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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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Fisheries Management: A new Challenge to Sociology
Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
management is the management of people, not fish" This statement may surprise many specialists, but it puts once again a series … attitude, a new type of intervention, a new vision, which may mean “community management”, a system of co-management, new …
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Changing perspectives on distribution policy: The evolution from dividends to share repurchase
Weigand, Robert A.; Baker, H. Kent - In: Managerial Finance 35 (2009) May, pp. 479-492
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a synthesis of the literature on the changing perspectives of corporate distribution policy. Design/methodology/approach – This paper synthesizes and interprets the theoretical, empirical and survey-based research on corporate payout policy....
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Insurance company dividend policy decisions: Evidence on the role of corporate governance and regulation
Jr, Victor A. Puleo; Smith, Frank S.; Casey, K. Michael - In: Managerial Finance 35 (2009) May, pp. 493-500
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between good corporate governance and dividend payment in the regulated insurance industry. Design/methodology/approach – A modification of Rozeff's transaction cost/agency cost trade-off model was estimated on a sample of 55...
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Explanatory factors of bank dividend policy: revisited
Theis, John; Dutta, Amitabh S. - In: Managerial Finance 35 (2009) May, pp. 501-508
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dickens et al. model of bank holding company dividend policy. They identified five explanatory factors in a sample of bank holding companies (BHCs). Banking companies typically pay larger dividends and more often than industrial firms....
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WHAT NEXT FOR MICROFINANCE? HOW THE BROADER FINANCIAL CONTEXT MATTERS FOR EFFECTIVE MICROFINANCE OUTREACH
HUDAK, KRISTEN - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 17 (2012) 04, pp. 1250023-1
This paper explores how the overall development of the financial sector and the regulatory framework impact national levels of microfinance outreach. It finds that microfinance tends to serve more clients in less developed, less competitive financial systems. However, it also finds that the...
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Corporate dividends decisions: evidence from Saudi Arabia
Al-Ajmi, Jasim; Hussain, Hameeda Abo - In: Journal of Risk Finance 11 (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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Risk management in Indian companies: EWRM concerns and issues
Gupta, P.K. - In: Journal of Risk Finance 11 (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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