Chasing the Total Solar Eclipse When the Moon slips between the Earth and Sun this week‚ Slovak astronomer Vojtech Rusin will be ready on a hotel balcony in Cairns‚ Australia to witness his 19th total solar eclipse. StarStruck spoke with the National Geographic grantee‚ part of an international team‚ about what it takes to follow the stellar phenomenon. • You’ve traveled around the world to observe solar eclipses. What’s different or special about this trip? Total solar eclipses happen regularly
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integration of the global economy has strengthened the international integration of goods‚ technology‚ labour and capital. This process of cross-border restrictions eliminations on international capital flows has increased the growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) activity. Many countries make every effort to attract FDI because it will bring a substantial growth to their economy‚ in addition to its function as the principal vehicle of international capital movement. There is a widely shared view
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International Financial Management ACPANA BUSINESS SYSTEM INC: EFFECT OF CURRENCY EXPOSURE ON REVENUE 1. Introduction and background Acpana Business Systems Inc. is a Canadian software development and backup-as-a-service provider. Recently‚ the company faced with the phenomenon which was the appreciation and volatility of Canadian dollar was affecting Acpana’s revenue significantly and undermining the growth of the company to a certain degree. Brenzel‚ the CEO of Acpana‚ was worried that
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European brewing industry This case is centred on the European brewing industry and examines how the increasingly competitive pressure of operating within global markets is causing consolidation through acquisitions‚ alliances and closures within the industry. This has resulted in the growth of the brewers’ reliance upon super brands. In the first decade of the twenty-first century‚ European brewers faced a surprising paradox. The traditional centre of the beer industry worldwide‚ and still
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This paper will examine Total Quality Management‚ TQM‚ with focus on the impact of globalization to TQM standards within an organization as well as an examination of traditional management styles as compared to those based on TQM principles. In order to fully understand these principles it is necessary to gain comprehension through defining Total Quality Management. "Total Quality Management (TQM) is a comprehensive and structured approach to organizational management that seeks to improve the quality
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Ninth AIMS International Conference on Management January 1-4‚ 2012 Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in India by way of Cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions Bhagwan Jagwani bhagwan.jagwani@ghsimr.org Dr. Gaur Hari Singhania Institute of Management & Research‚ Kanpur Over the last two decades‚ the share of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CB M&As) in the global FDI inflows has been over 50%. The Indian Corporate sector too experienced a boom in this form of FDI. The increasing flows
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Mongols‚ conquered Eurasia during the 13th and 14th centuries and left impacts that apply even to the present. Out of the hundreds of changes they may have caused‚ there are three that seem the most significant. As they dominated most parts of Eurasia‚ they brought religious biases‚ impacts that had negative effect on Eurasia’s economy‚ and influenced the spread of ideas‚ technology‚ and diseases. To a certain extent‚ religious biases were introduced as the Mongols dominated Eurasia. Although it’s
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satisfaction for contributing to the growth of the company as a whole and to their individual growth. Because of this management approach‚ the employees are eager to work‚ are motivated and have a high productivity. These factors have all to do with hr movement and without this‚ they wouldn’t be able to become a multinational. From the perspective of the system approach to management‚ what potential problems might Smucker’s encounter as a result of having only family members serve as CEOs? The
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Total War Total war was introduced to Britain in May 1915 and was to last until the end of the war in November 1918. Total War put the whole country on a compulsory war footing with the government controlling it. When war was declared in August 1914‚ a certain naivety enveloped the whole country. Many did believe that the war would be over by Christmas 1914 - hence the rush by young men to volunteer before the ’fun’ ended. This whole belief that the war would be a short and sharp affair with Germany
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Knowledge Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry Introduction The study of Knowledge Management is a process that has been researched for centuries by western philosophers and traditional theorists‚ however it is only until recently that knowledge management has been the main focus for many organisations. Many have said that it was the publishing of Karl Wiig’s‚ “knowledge management foundations” (1993)‚ that sparked the huge interest in knowledge management and nearly two decades on KM is
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