Dissertation Effect of mergers and acquisitions on performance of firms- case study of Lenovo and IBM PC Introduction Background of the Study As pointed out by Agrawal‚ Jaffe and Mandelker (1992)‚ decisions on mergers and acquisitions are highly critical in the success of companies‚ as well as their managers. Numerous corporations always find that one of the best means of getting ahead is expanding the ownership boundaries via the mergers‚ as well as acquisitions
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between and among Unit’s profit-making‚ GreenEx Performance and CSR Index with the use of Spearman’s Rank Correlation Method. The data of the Units has been adopted from the Forbes’ India’s Top 100 Units. A CSR Index has been generated on the basis of ratio of Unit’s actual CSR spend and stipulated 2% of Avg. PAT (as per CSR Clause no. 135 in the proposed Companies Act 2013). For GreenEx performance the data has been adopted from BSE GreenExchange. For the Form’s Profitability the data has been adopted
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Throughout American history national security has been more important than civil liberties and freedoms. In post 9-11 Americans have traded some of their freedom and rights for security. This kind of security for century have taken some privacy rights of American citizens and increased the government’s ability to spy on their own citizens. As a result‚ people have been less motivated to use their First Amendment right especially if they feel they could be seen as a terrorist. Although our freedom
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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 is a strange but hot issue. "How to set up the marketing strategies
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The use of 3rd party logistics firms and outsourcing supply chain strategies Introduction For the last couple of decades the interest in logistics alliances and third party logistics (3PL) has been growing in academics and industries. The common viewpoint is to consider 3PL as outsourcing of logistics activities. The aim of this paper is to take a complementary perspective by looking at 3PL as an insourcing of resources. It means the shipper gets access to the providers’ resources. Matthias
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Sinopec Engineering’s Hong Kong IPO include: China Export & Credit Insurance Corp‚ China Aerospace‚ China Shipping and Zhong Rong Group‚ Sources say these cornerstone investors have covered in total about 17.5 per cent of the overall US$2 billion IPO. Meanwhile‚ Galaxy Securities‚ the mainland’s seventh largest brokerage firm by assets‚ may raise as much as US$1.57 billion through a mixed of new and old shares. The old shares represents about US$50 to US$68 million worth shares. The shares are priced
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essentially the same product. The firms produce a standardized product and there is a free entry and exit of these firms to and from the industry. The firm in a purely competitive market faces a perfectly elastic demand curve at the price determined by equilibrium in the market (Hirschey 379). The firm in a short-run supply curve is the short-run marginal cost curve above the minimum point on the average variable cost curve‚ also known as the shutdown point. In the short run‚ firms behave differently than
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Apple Inc. In 2012 What‚ historically‚ have been Apple’s competitive advantage? Initially‚ Job’s motive was to offer the first easy-to –use computer to the market. He managed it and Apple Computer knew its first success in 1977 with the Apple II. It’s the first personal computer sold in a large scale‚ and whom use were democratized‚ in particular in education sector. In 1978‚ this two years old company had already sparked a real revolution in the computer industry. The next notable revolution
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ABSTRACT Since the establishment of the first national strategic development plan in the early 1970s‚ the construction industry has played an important role in terms of the economic‚ social and cultural development of Indonesia. The industry’s contribution to Indonesia’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased from 3.9% in 1973 to 7.7% in 2007. Business Monitoring International (2009) forecasts that Indonesia is home to one of the fastest-growing construction industries in Asia despite the average
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desperate‚ aberrant act by a small and reluctant minority of English parliamentarians - opposed by the right-thinking bulk of the population. One seventeen year-old boy in the crowd at Whitehall recorded that the execution was met with ’such a groan as I have never heard before‚ and desire I may never hear again’. This lad grew up to become a nonconformist minister in the 1660s but his views echoed those of a Restoration Bishop who claimed no king ’ever left the world with more sorrow: women miscarried
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