Creative Destruction and the Aftermath of the Tsunami: Recovery of Southern Sri Lankan Small Business in the Face of Inertia Dr. C. Travis A. Perera Senior Consultant‚ Entrepreneurship‚ Business Development & Operations Management Postgraduate Institute of Management‚ Sri Lanka Telephone number: 94-777 756 109 Fax number: 94-11-2689643 Email: drtravisperera@gmail.com Paper Presented At the 5th International Entrepreneurship Forum held in Cape Town‚ South Africa from September 07-09-2005
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INTRODUCTION Elected officials in the nation’s capital are acting like zombies taking bites out of the national economic recovery‚ and infecting Florida in the process. In his final state economic forecast for 2013‚ University of Central Florida economist Sean Snaith‚ revised the positive economic growth trend for the Sunshine State because of the “antics in D.C.” “The situation in Washington‚ D.C. is looking more and more like a movie that is a hybrid of Night of the Living Dead and Groundhog Day
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Disasters are as old as human history. However‚ whether an event qualifies as a disaster or not has often depended upon who is doing the definition. Individuals‚ governments and humanitarian agencies have attempted to define disaster in various ways depending on their roles‚ biases‚ interests and capabilities. The United Nations Development Programme has defined disaster as an occurrence of a sudden or major misfortune which disrupts the basic fabric and normal functioning of a
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Recovery Model in Marriage and Family Therapy The recovery model have created a wide spared international movement within the healthcare ranks‚ bringing its identity into a clearer focus through the lens of government funded agencies‚ health care communities‚ as well as other interested parties and groups in how they view mental illness and it’s diagnosis (Gehart‚ 2014). The recovery model ambition is to establish the tools and resources to restore a healthy and manageable way of living creating
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Disaster management can be defined as the organization and management of resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies‚ in particular preparedness‚ response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters. The need to address disaster management Disasters are defined as a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society. They involve widespread human‚ material‚ economic or environmental impacts‚ which exceed the ability of
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Case Report ING DIRECT CANADA Role of the Responder: Basil Bell‚ Vice-President Operations‚ ING Direct Canada Executive Summary ING Direct Canada is facing back office capacity problems in handling new and existing accounts because of a successful direct mail campaign by the marketing department. Providing same day processing of new and existing accounts has become challenging for the operations department. This is resulting in cost overruns with increased overtime hours and errors
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Decision Making and Problem Solving Independent Study November 2005 FEMA TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Course Overview......................................................................................................................... 1 Unit 1: Course Introduction Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 1.1 Decisions in Emergency Management .................................................
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Disaster Plan Emanuel Alcime IT240 August 28‚ 2011 Axia College Disaster Plan My name is Emanuel and I am an IT/network consultant‚ I was hired The IST Department of XYZ Computers to create a disaster plan for the company. Now‚ the average person would think is there hurricane‚ title wave‚ or a tornado about to hit the company; if so why in the heck would the company need an informational technology/networking consultant to create a disaster plan. Well lucky for me it is not that type
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heart rate occurs when you become relaxed or comfortable. These are shown when sitting or lying down. The ability to return to a normal pulse after an activity is called recovery heart rate. Fast heart rate recovery from exercise indicates an improved fitness level. This is measured by how much the heart rate falls after the first minute of peak exercise. Adults
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Case Study Analysis- Transplant Ethics The ethics of allocating organs for transplantation is a complex thing. There are some principle involved in allocation of human organs such as Utility‚ Justice and Respect for Persons. All these principles are conflict to each other as the number of factors that should be considered in allocation of human organs. In the given case study‚ Mr. X is eligible to receive the heart as has been waiting for the transplant and on the waiting list. In any organ transplant
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