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International trade in financial services
Webster, Allan; Hardwick, Philip - 2005
International trade in financial services is a topic of some importance both to the financial services sector itself and in international trade negotiations. Unfortunately, intrinsic problems in defining and measuring trade in services, combined with a lack of data in many countries, have made...
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Small Firms Investment: A Search For The Motivations 1999-2002
Hankinson, Alan - 2002
in the south of England. The results were published in the International Small Business Journal 1984. This research has …
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Improving Business Performance through Effectively Managing Employees
Poquette, Ross E.L. - 2011
Businesses in today’s highly competitive environment need to be aware of the best methods for motivating, training, developing, and promoting a diverse environment in an organization. These methods will be examined in order to gain an understanding of what works well and how the ideal...
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Satisfaction with External Internships: Do Students Acquire the Professional Skills Necessary to Improve their Employability?
Ramírez, Miguel-Angel Acedo; Ciriza, Esperanza Azcona; … - In: International Journal of Human Capital and Information … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 42-50
This paper evaluates the level of satisfaction of students enrolled in the Degree in Business Administration and …
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Business Process Management
Baporikar, Neeta - In: International Journal of Productivity Management and … 4 (2016) 2, pp. 49-62
In today's business environment it is impossible for one or one group of people to fully know or understand all the … dynamics associated with the operational business processes within an organization. This is why it is essential that companies … looking towards Business Process Management (BPM), which would help to maximize the bottom-line impact of process improvement …
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Sustainable supply chains – a framework for best practice assessment: results of the pilot study, BestLog project.
Piotrowicz, Wojciech; Cuthbertson, Richard; Islei, Gerd
This paper presents results of a pilot study completed as part of the BestLog (Best Practices in Logistics) project. BestLog (www.bestlog.org) is a research project initiated by the European Commission (EC) and financed from the 6th Framework Programme. One of the project goals is to identify...
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Management accounting systems and organizational configuration: A life-cycle perspective
Moores, Ken; Yuen, Susana - 2001
This study adopts a configurational approach that captures possible variables (strategy, structure, leadership and decision-making styles) and their relationships with management accounting systems (MAS) from an organizational life-cycle perspective. Using Miller and Friesen's life-cycle model...
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Does corporate governance affect earnings quality: Preliminary evidence from Bangladesh
Houqe, Muhammad Nurual; van Zijl, Tony; Dunstan, Keitha; … - 2009
This paper investigates whether firm corporate governance practices have an effect on the quality of its publicly released financial information. Researchers carrying out earnings quality research usually relies on Dechow and Dichev (2002), Leuz et al (2003), Penman (2001) or Barton and Simko...
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Corporate governance and company performance in Australia
Christensen, Jacqueline; Kent, Pamela; Steward, Jenny - 2009
This study tests whether the adoption of Australian best practice corporate governance recommendations have a positive or negative relation with financial performance measured by return on assets (ROA) and Tobin's Q. The governance mechanisms associated with increased ROA and Tobin's Q are the...
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The valuation accuracy of the price-earnings and price-book benchmark valuation methods
Cheng, C. S. Agnes; McNamara, Ray - 2000
This paper evaluates the valuation accuracy of the price-earnings (P/E), the price-book (P/B) and a combined price-earnings and price-book (P/E-P/B) benchmark valuation methods. Performance of the benchmark valuation methods relies on the definition of comparable firms. In this paper, comparable...
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