What is "Small" Business? In addition to how a business is organized legally‚ size is also a way to classifying businesses. A small business is generally defined as any independently owned business with fewer than 500 employees that is not dominant in its industry. The Small Business Administration (SBA) is responsible for issuing the specific criteria that render a business a small business. These criteria vary widely by industry. As recently as 2010‚ in an effort to make more businesses eligible
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Critical Thinking and Ethics THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CRITICAL THINKING AND ETHICS Critical thinking is an individual’s form of judgment that has a particular purpose and reflective judgment. When individuals use critical thinking they reach a decision or solves an issue of judging what to believe or what to do‚ but reaches this conclusion in a thoughtful way. Critical thinking is a tool that individuals can use to evaluate incoming information. On the other hand‚ ethics is a branch of philosophy
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Small Business in Sub-Saharan Africa: Major Constraints in [Nigeria] Introduction The Federal Republic of Nigeria has an area of 923‚768.00 sq kilometres and completely within the tropical zone (About.com 2005). Nigeria has a population which is estimated over 154 million. It is a 12th largest petroleum product producer in the world. Due to the surge in international oil prices during 2007-08‚ Nigeria administrated an annual GDP of US$352.3 billion and has the largest GDP compare
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describing and explaining the relation between various facts. It becomes a law‚ when the facts have rigourous test and acceptability as a true theory. Over the years however‚ social science research‚ especially in Africa have suffered some constraining factors‚ which are epistemological‚ methological‚ as well as socio-cultural in nature.
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Starbuck’s Environmental Factors Starbucks has wide range of business activity. These activities allow the company to use numerous channels of product distribution. With the company operating in many locations throughout the world‚ environmental factors play a major role in marketing decisions. Each distribution channel is affected differently and the company’s flexibility in the marketing plan allows the company to adjust their strategies to meet the needs of the environmental factors that face them.
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Journal of Economic & Administrative Sciences Vol. 26‚ No. 1‚ June 2010 (27 -51) Factors Affecting Switching Behavior of Mobile Service Users: The Case of Jordan Dr. Mohammad Suleiman Awwad Mr. Bashar Awad Neimat Mutah University Al-Hussein Bin Talal University Jordan Abstract This study aims at identifying the most critical factors affecting the customer switching behavior for mobile service providers in Jordan. A number of 580 questionnaires distributed to a random sample of Jordanian mobile
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Title: Do the BPS ethical principles and guidelines place unreasonable constraints upon research? Ethical issues in research and particularly socially sensitive research have predominantly represented a focal paradigm within ’social sciences’; the emotive nature of psychological enquiry in both classical and contemporary investigations has moulded the retroactive response of bodies responsible for overseeing the instigation and application of principles and guidelines envisaged to safeguard
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FACTORS AFFECTING SOLUBILITY There are three main factors that control solubility of a solute. (1) Temperature (2) Nature of solute or solvent (3) Pressure EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE Generally in many cases solubility increases with the rise in temperature and decreases with the fall of temperature but it is not necessary in all cases. However we must follow two behaviours: In endothermic process‚ solubility increases with the increase in temperature and vice versa. For
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How Effective Is The UN? What Are The Constraints On Its Power? The United Nations‚ (UN) was originally established in 1945 for the purpose to “maintain international peace and security…to cooperate in solving international economic‚ social‚ cultural and humanitarian problems…and to be a centre for harmonising the actions of nations in attaining these ends.” In assessing whether or not the UN is an effective organisation‚ it is essential to acknowledge several important features of the establishment
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1. The triple disaster of March 2011 and its impact on Japanese politics and economy The triple disaster: earthquake‚ tsunami and Fukushima nuclear accident. The earthquake and tsunami caused extensive and severe structural damage in north-eastern Japan‚ including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas‚ and a dam collapse. Naoto Kan said‚ "In the 65 years after the end of World War II‚ this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan." Around 4.4 million
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