CEO PERSONALITY‚ STRATEGIC FLEXIBILITY‚ AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF THE INDIAN BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING INDUSTRY SUCHETA NADKARNI Drexel University POL HERRMANN Iowa State University We examine the relationships between CEO personality‚ strategic flexibility (ability to adapt quickly to environmental changes)‚ and firm performance‚ using a sample of 195 small and medium-sized firms from the Indian business process outsourcing industry. We hypothesize that strategic flexibility mediates
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Bharti Airtel Limited‚ commonly known as Airtel‚ is an Indian telecommunications Services Company headquartered at New Delhi‚ India. It operates in 20 countries across South Asia‚ Africa and the Channel Islands. Airtel has GSM network in all countries in which it operates‚ providing 2G‚ 3G and 4G services depending upon the country of operation & always raises call tariffs. Airtel is the world’s fourth largest mobile telecommunications Company with over 261 million subscribers across 20 countries
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Globalization has paved way for the development of outsourcing. Myriads of companies have been utilizing this system in order to reduce cost without compromising the quality of products and services that they offer to the world. Surely‚ outsourcing has provided a lot of benefits both to the companies and customers‚ but it also contributes to some shortcomings in a business. Nothing is wrong with outsourcing. It just poses a number of risks when not handled well. Some companies may overlook a few
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Big Bazaar. In my summer training project I’m doing live project‚ on a “An Analysis of Customer Cherry Picking of FMCG Products at Big-Bazaar in Lucknow”. ( To improve customer walk-in at big bazaar) And also to know what are the factors which customers think before visiting Big Bazaar. 3 Need for the study 3 Topic for the study 3 Objectives 3 CHERRY PICKING 4 Company Profile 7 Research Methodology 27 DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION 30 HYPOTHESIS/LIMITATIONS 77 CONCLUSIONS & FINDINGS 88
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ANALYSIS OF LOBLAW COMPANIES LIMITED Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to highlight the findings of the audit that was conducted on Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw)‚ a subsidiary of George Weston Limited‚ and to come to a feasible conclusion about maintaining the company ’s already successful business. A qualitative and quantitative analysis was conducted through secondary research‚ using internal and external resources. Since its incorporation in 1956‚ Loblaw has worked its
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Strategic Planning Case: The Future of the Great Italian Food Company As each member of the family has a different perspective of where they want the restaurant to go‚ a strong recommendation would be to start by following the steps in the strategic management process: Step 1 – Establishment of Mission‚ Vision‚ Goals Step 2 – Analysis of External Opportunities and Threats Step 3 – Analysis Internal Strengths and Weaknesses Step 4 - SWOT Analysis and Strategy Formulation Step 5 – Strategy
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Case IV-3: IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Schaeffer (A) Schaeffer Corporation must have improved information technology services in order for them to achieve their ambitious growth goals. Schaeffer’s IT is not one of their core competencies and they are able to save some money by outsourcing and expending into additional countries and acquiring these new companies will require extraordinary IT support efforts. Schaeffer Corporation has five challenges associated with their decision to outsource
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procedures across the United States of America. MHC’s Competitive & Organizational HR Strategies In order to stay competitive in the health care industry‚ Multistate Health Corporation plans to focus on technology and service. The company’s strategic move is to become a conglomerate that will mandate its subsidiaries to create innovative health care technologies to perform technical and expensive medical procedures. MHC projects that these new technologies will reduce hospital operational costs
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to adopt strategies that enable it to maintain its competitive advantage over its rival. Consumer Goods industry where P&G operates has matured reaching the consolidation stage and competition amongst rivals is intense. P&G has many strategic options create competitive advantage over its rivals such as further market penetrations by rebranding its current line of products and selling them at a lower price. Another option for P&G is to expand in the emerging markets by collaboration
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WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES LTD - Term Project STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Submitted to Prof. Mr. Veeresh Sharma Submitted by N S Siva Shanmuga Priya 2011012 Indus World School of Business Greater Noida Date: 12/03/2012 1 Table of Contents Content Executive Summary Vision & Mission Statement Page Number 3 4 External Audit 5 Demographic Forces Economic Environment Political and Legal Environment Technical Environment Social Environment Industry Stage Internal Audit Brief History Financials
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