helps in taking more than one decisions in a firm. How would you substantiate this statement for a unit under expansion phase | | Abstract Companies commonly face major uncertainties in their product markets‚ particularly in the manufacturing industry where competition is often fierce and consumer tastes change rapidly. Managers need to estimate future revenues‚ costs‚ and profits to help them plan and monitor operations and to decide the mix and volumes of goods or services to produce and sell. They
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systematic risk of the volatility of an asset relative to the market volatility. J.Choi & M.Richardson (n.d) stated that the asset volatility is time-varying and that financial leverage matters and has a large influence on equity volatility. Besides that‚ the systematic risk is defined as the probability that the financial system as a whole might become unstable‚ rather that the health of individual market participants (E.V.Murphy‚ 2012). Sometimes‚ systematic risk is called as market risk. According
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Why Japanese firms cannot attract talents from overseas: The consequence Japan faces from postwar economic growth Today‚ Japanese firms are in jeopardy of surviving. Due to the advent of globalization and the shrinking of the domestic market in Japan‚ it became essential for the firms to gain talents from overseas. However‚ it is a well-known fact that Japanese companies do not attract the foreign talents. Singapore is not an exception. In fact‚ none of the Japanese firms were included in Singapore’s
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Shoring: Off shoring is the type of relocation of an industry or an company of a business from one country to another i.e typically an operational process‚ such as manufacturing process. Next shoring is “the transfer of business or manufacturing processes to companies in a Nearby location. Where both parties may be benefited from one or more of the following dimension of proximity i.e Cultural‚ linguistic‚ political etc.‚ 1.2 Understanding the change in Market‚ Manufacturing Cost and Technology: Over
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Entrepreneurial leadership and context in Chinese firms: a tale of two Chinese private enterprises Catherine L. Wanga*‚ Ding Ding Teeb and Pervaiz K. Ahmedb a School of Management‚ Royal Holloway University of London‚ Egham Hill‚ Egham‚ Surrey‚ TW20 0EX‚ UK; bSchool of Business‚ Monash University‚ Sunway Campus‚ Jalan Lagoon Selatan‚ 46150 Bandar Sunway‚ Selangor Darul Ehsan‚ Malaysia We focus on entrepreneurial leadership styles and context in Chinese firms. Drawing on exploratory case study evidence from
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Service Request SR-rm-022‚ Part One Introduction Hugh McCauley‚ COO of Riordan Manufacturing has submitted service request SR-rm-022. The service request is to integrate existing variety of human resource (HR) tools into a single integrated application (Apollo Group‚ Inc. 2011). The new system will provide the organization with a more sophisticated‚ state-of-the art‚ information systems technology than what they currently have to better assist the HR department. Before the approval of the project
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Measuring Geographic Differences in Technical Change in the US Manufacturing Sector Ethan Lewis Final‚ 26 March 2004 I. Introduction A large and growing literature examines the influence of advanced technologies on the relative wages and productivity of different workers (for example‚ Doms‚ Dunne and Troske (1997) and Autor‚ Katz and Krueger (1998)). These studies are motivated by indirect evidence that recent trends in technological change‚ such as the dissemination of information technology
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Manufacturing Systems in the Modernization of Manufacturing Manufacturing system‚ to understand manufacturing system it is first essential to appreciate the context of manufacturing. Manufacturing is the organized activity devoted to the tranformation of raw materials into marketable goods (B.Wu‚ 1996). Manufacturing is the transformation of material into something useful and portable. In the sector of industry‚ manufacturing is called a secondary industry‚ because this is the sector of a nation’s
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association between GreenEx and Profitability‚ and weak association between Profitability and CSR Index. The findings indicate that the Units which are highly Eco-friendly are also highly involved in CSR activities. Secondly‚ the findings indicate that the Units which are highly Eco-friendly are also high on profitability. Lastly‚ the findings indicate that the Units which are highly profit making are not necessarily and proportionately CSR active. The association between CSR and Profitability though positive
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Impact of Corporate Governance on Firm Performance—an Empirical investigation from the Insurance Industry of Pakistan Hafiz Muhammad Raheel Arif* Raheel_prince23@hotmail.com 00923216190575 *COMSATS Institute of Information Technology and Science Lahore‚ Pakistan Abstract The study is devoted to check the impact of corporate governance (CG) on the firm performance (FP) of the insurance industry of Pakistan. Four measures have been used in the paper to check the firm performance being affected by
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