Insight from industry How international firms Insight from Industry are coping with supply chain issues in China Bin Jiang Introduction A recent US-China Business Council survey found that US companies cited the supply chain-related problem as a major problem facing companies operating in China. One reason for this is the restrictions placed on providing distribution services through third parties. Foreign firms are required to import products through officially sanctioned trading companies
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FOUNDING FAMILY OWNERSHIP AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCDE FROM THE S&P 500 The main of this paper is to evaluate the relation between firm performance and family ownership. There was a lot of belief that family ownership structure was very inefficient and less profitable as compared to the other ownership structures. Many reasons have been put forward for the same: owners may choose nonpecuniary consumption and draw resources away from profitable projects. Families often limit executive management
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Topics: 1) Dissolution of a Partnership Firm. 2) Forms of partnership under Islamic Law. Submitted To: Sir. Usman Arshad Submitted By: Muhammad Hashaam Khalid BBA-12-043 Date: 26 November‚2012 Sub-campus (Bhakkar) Dissolution of a partnership Firm: Dissolution of a partnership firm means the ending of contractual relationship b/w all the partners. It means the closing of partnership business. According to partnership act: “ if there is dissolution of
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Stock Equity Market Research and Comparative Analysis of Kotak Securities with Other Broking Firms A PROJECT REPORT ON “Stock Equity Market Research and Comparative Analysis of Kotak Securities with Other Broking Firms” In partial fulfillment for the requirement of the Summer Internship Training Project during the two year full time Master of Business Administration course Submitted To: N.R. Institute of Business Management Submitted On: 3 August‚ 2012 Internal Guide: Prof. Rajsee
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Measuring Macroeconomic Activity; Spending by Individuals‚ Firms‚ and Governments on Real Goods and Services Does either player have a dominant strategy? Explain. In the payoff matrix above‚ both drivers must swerve to avoid a head-on collision. If both swerve to different sides‚ they will avoid collision. However‚ if they choose to swerve the same side‚ they will collide. Is there Nash equilibrium in this game? Explain While driving makes communication difficult (i.e.‚ one driver cannot
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Radical and incremental innovations have long been the cornerstone of which firms base their knowledge and methods of technological innovation. However‚ this paper serves to bring attention to one of the less apparent forms of innovation‚ whose importance is increasingly being brought to light. Architectural innovations are‚ as defined by Henderson and Clark‚ "innovations that change the way in which the components of a product are linked together‚ while leaving the core design concepts (and thus
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University of Connecticut DigitalCommons@UConn Economics Working Papers Department of Economics 11-1-2007 Technical Efficiency in the Indian Textiles Industry: A Nonparametric Analysis of Firm-Level Data Anup Kumar Bhandari Indian Statistical Institute‚ Kolkata Subhash C. Ray University of Connecticut Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/econ_wpapers Recommended Citation Bhandari‚ Anup Kumar and Ray‚ Subhash C.‚ "Technical Efficiency in the Indian
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127—137 www.elsevier.com/locate/bushor A stranger in a strange land: Micro political risk and the multinational firm Ilan Alon‚ Theodore T. Herbert * Crummer Graduate School of Business‚ Rollins College‚ 1000 Holt Avenue - 2722‚ Winter Park‚ FL 32789‚ U.S.A. KEYWORDS Micro political risk; Risk assessment; Environmental analysis; Multinational corporation Abstract When a firm chooses to enter or continue business in a foreign market‚ it becomes exposed to associated political risks which
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foreign investment capital is 972 millions USD. (See Appendix 1). The first place foreign investors come to seek the useful advice is Vietnamese Firms Consulting Foreign Investors (VFCFI). To meet the high demand a lot of Vietnamese Consulting Firms have been established lately. However‚ consultancy is a fresh field and the newly-established firms are facing abundant difficulties such as lack of experiences‚ do not understand market economy system‚ cross-cultural problems‚ etc. Among them‚ marketing
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Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from the S&P 500 The main argument of this paper by Anderson and Reeb is the question whether family ownership is beneficial or detrimental to the future of the company. The arguments against family ownership stress on the points of forgoing profit‚ limited human resource pool‚ usage of company resources for personal reasons and general low company performance. Other researchers attribute benefits to family ownership like greater monitoring of the firm‚ increased
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