MARYAM ISAH M.SC/SOC-SCI/3434/10-11 THE CHANGING STRUCTURE OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT 1970-2011 LECTURER:Prof Olowononi DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AHMADU BELLO ZARIA The structure of Nigerian economy can be broadly classified into four:The production‚Commerce‚Services and others. PRODUCTION: processes and methods employed to transform tangible inputs (raw materials‚ semifinished goods‚ or subassemblies) and intangible
Premium Agriculture
The ASEAN Summit is an annual meeting held by the member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in relation to economic‚ and cultural development of Southeast Asian countries.[2]The league of ASEAN is currently connected with other countries who aimed to participate on the missions and visions of the league. Apparently‚ the league is conducting an annual meetings with other countries in an organisation collectively known as the ASEAN dialogue partners. ASEAN +3 adds China‚ Japan and South
Free
1. When Annie Dillard says “I’ll do it in the evenings‚ after skiing‚ or on the way home from the bank…” she is referring to writing‚ and how writing is something that you have to take on completely and make it your whole life. 2. The most climactic event of Dillard’s narrative is when the female moth goes into the flame of the candle and her body is shriveling and crumbling away. She connects it with what she sees in the bathroom because the hollow body of the female moth didn’t crumble and became
Premium Writing Essay
levels between divisions ‚ as the company at that moment was split in ten divisions and each one of it was totally focusing on profit maximization into it’s own area there were unequal distribution of wealth among pre and post IPO partners the firm was in a period of rapid growth ‚ diversification and globalization period ‚ environment that put a lot of pressure on people generally and management especially traditionally rivalry btw Fisher and Greenhill ‚ Greenhill representing the interest
Premium Management Leadership Morgan Stanley
Of A Firm The optimum size of a firm is a very subjective idea. The ways in which size can help or hinder a firm vary from which angle you a looking at the situation from. Size can have its benefits and its drawbacks‚ and each firm will have its own benefits and drawbacks that come from either increasing in size‚ or remaining small‚ and these will depend on the market in which the firm is in‚ the current economy‚ and in some cases the preferences of the manager(s). For example a small firm may
Premium Small business Business Marketing
Q4. What criteria must be met if firms are to achieve a competitive advantage through their employees? Organizations which have happy employees have the upper hand on their competitors. An organization’s success depends on KSA (knowledge‚ skills‚ and abilities) of employees‚ as they help to establish a set of capabilities that distinguishes a firm from its rivals‚ which is to gain a competitive advantage. A firm can achieve a stable competitive advantage through talented employee in case if they
Premium Management Employment Strategic management
The Audit Firm Culture and its Affects on Quality Audits By Danielle Reynolds A company’s culture has a large impact on the ethical behavior of employee’s and an employee’s ethical behavior plays an important role in the quality of the audit. Now‚ there are several factors that affect the quality of an audit but the one that will be focused on in this paper is the effect the audit firm culture has on the audit quality. Audit firm culture effects so many different things at a firm including
Premium Ethics
exporter: Home country managed firm. Firm specific advantage in its final products. Standardized products manufactured at home. Only the transferable firm specific advantages are taken to the host country‚ meaning that they try to make exporting successful in international markets. No development of location bound firm specific advantages. International projector: Clones home operations into host countries. Knowledge based firm specific advantages are replicated from home
Premium Strategic management Management
Assignment 2 (a)Outline the main forms of flexibility as defined in Atkinson’s (1984) model of the flexible firm (b) What are some of the strengths and weaknesses of the Atkinson model? ANSWER PLAN: Introduction/Background o What are the aims of flexibility o Guest (1987) de-centralisation helps to create flexibility o What are the main forms of flexibility that modern organisation need Body: 4 types of flexibility o Functional/Temporal/Numerical/Financial Body 2: Atkinson’s
Premium Outsourcing Part-time Organization
of the managerial characteristics of a Born Global firm? How are distinguishable from those of a traditional firm that seek to expand with a more traditional evolutionary process? The Born Global firm phenomenon refers to those special firms that adopt an international approach right from their birth The general characteristics of Born Global firms differentiate themselves from other multinationals in their growth stages. Born Global firms typically operate in a narrowly defined market niche
Free Firm Management Entrepreneurship