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 the relationships
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interchange (EDI) B) Business processes C) Trading partners D) Transaction 2. The group of logical‚ related‚ and sequential activities and transactions in which businesses engage are often collectively referred to as ____. A) Electronic data interchange (EDI) B) Business processes C) Trading partners D) Transaction 3. ____ occurs when one business transmits computer-readable data in a standard format to another business. A) Electronic data interchange (EDI) B) Business processes C) Trading partners
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Process Outsourcing Unlocking top-line growth by outsourcing “the core” At a glance • Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) enables clients to unlock their top-line growth by outsourcing their core work to locations that have a highly skilled and relatively cheap talent pool. We consider this to be the single most important factor that differentiates Knowledge Process Outsourcing from its predecessor‚ Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). • KPO is about “intellectual arbitrage”. This differentiates
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Geography is an important factor of International Business operations of a country. South Koreas place in the map makes it part of the East Asian monsoonal region. The country has a temperate climate with four seasons. Winter is usually long‚ cold and dry. January is the coldest month in South Korea. The temperature ranges from -5o C to -25o C in January. Summer is hot‚ humid and short. Autumn and spring are short in duration. If the weather is too cold‚ too hot‚ too windy and natural disasters affects
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Which of the following is the least useful sales forecasting model to use when sales are increasing? Select one: Trend adjusted exponential smoothing Weighted moving average Naïve Exponential smoothing ? Simple mean x Which of the following forecasting methods is most likely to be implemented to change an existing quantitative forecast to account for a new competitor in the marketplace? Select one: Gamma method Executive opinion Market research Naïve method Delphi method
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Forecasting Methods Forecasting demand is not an easy task. The market is constantly changing and it makes the product demand difficult to predict. Therefore‚ there is not such as perfect product forecast of what customers will need in the future. However‚ there are several methods that help attenuating the uncertainty of forecasting demand. Since‚ the forecast methods or techniques differ from one another; the objective is to compare and contrast several forecasting methods‚ and how they are
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MT302 Organizational Behavior Unit 2: Assignment Job Satisfaction Important Factors 6/17/2011 I selected my top five to reflect what I believe are important aspects within the workplace. I selected Job security as my number one most important aspect. My second is career advancement‚ then pay/compensation. Fourth is Benefits and lastly balance between home life and work. These to me are the most important aspects of a job or career that could be offered within any given position with a company
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International Journal of Pharmacy Practice & Drug Research www.ijppdr.com REASONS FOR OUTSOURCING IN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY Shailesh Kumar Develpalli*¹‚ Malathi Jojula2‚ Bucha Reddy Ponakunti3 ¹Sr. Manager in General Administration Ricon Pharma Private Limited India‚ Hyderabad‚ Andhra Pradesh‚ India. ²Department of Pharmacy Microbiology‚ Sri Shivani College of Pharmacy‚ Warangal‚ Andhra Pradesh‚ India. ³Department of Business Administration‚ Andhra Vidyalaya College‚ Hyderabad‚ Andhra Pradesh‚ India. ABSTRACT
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Since the Second World War‚ international business appeared as the main economic factor responding to postwar needs. Nowadays‚ globalisation has increased the facility of international exchange and has risen the multicultural needs.The increase in demand for international products has resulted in large possibilities to do business abroad. However‚ it is really complicate to import or export without knowledge in this area. Global business is all of the commercial exchanges which involve more than
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various constraints‚ including cost. D) is concerned with how resources are transformed into goods and services. E) All of the above are true. 2) Three types of processes are A) goods‚ services‚ and hybrids. B) manual‚ automated‚ and service. C) process focus‚ repetitive focus‚ and product focus. D) modular‚ continuous‚ and technological. E) input‚ transformation‚ and output. 3) Which of the following industries is likely to have low equipment utilization? A) auto
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