DO FIRMS GO PUBLIC? Forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance James C. Brau‚ PhD‚ CFA Professor of Finance Editor‚ Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance July 1‚ 2010 Department of Finance Marriott School Brigham Young University 640 Tanner Building Provo‚ Utah 84602 Phone: 801.318.7919 Fax: 801.422.0741 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1649008 WHY DO FIRMS GO PUBLIC? Six months after he founded Netscape‚ Clark agitated for the company to
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dabznal心gement 1991 Vol. 17 No. 1 99-120 ‚ ‚ ‚ Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage JayBarney 海’xas A&M University Understanding sources of sustained competitive advantage has become a major area of research in strategic management‚ Building on the assumptions that strategic resources are heterogeneously distributed across firms and that these d，胡erences are stable over time‚ this article examines the link betweenfirm resources and sustained conψeti tive advantag，ι
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Executive Summary It ’s been called "the world ’s most versatile camera”‚ GoPro documented human history in 2012 when Felix Baumgartner dove off the Red Bull Stratos; a weather balloon located 24 miles above the earth ’s atmosphere for scientific and weather research. Fleix astonished the world‚ breaking two records‚ as he descended toward earth at 840 mph before reaching free fall. Founded in 2002 by Nichols Woodman‚ GoPro is the creator of the world’s most versatile camera
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ABSTRACT Since the establishment of the first national strategic development plan in the early 1970s‚ the construction industry has played an important role in terms of the economic‚ social and cultural development of Indonesia. The industry’s contribution to Indonesia’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased from 3.9% in 1973 to 7.7% in 2007. Business Monitoring International (2009) forecasts that Indonesia is home to one of the fastest-growing construction industries in Asia despite the average
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CAPITAL LTD………………………………………………………………10 IV. MIS SYSTEM IN THE COMPANY…………………………………………………….12 V. METHODS AND DATA USED………………………………………………………...17 VI. LIMITATIONS AND CHALLENGES…………………………………………………18 VII. EXPERT INTERVIEW………………………………………………………………….20 VIII. CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………………….22 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The project is a study of the MIS systems that is implemented in the share brokerage companies in India and we have taken specifically the example of ACUMEN GROUP
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Why firms decide to go global Growth Many companies will prefer to invest their excess profits in order to expand‚ but sometimes they are limited because of the maturity of the markets in their area. Therefore‚ they seek the overseas new markets to provide such growth opportunities. So‚ these companies‚ in addition to investing their excess profits‚ also try to maximize efficiency by employing their underutilized resources in human and capital assets such as management‚ machinery‚ and technology
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multinational firms In this briefing: The scale of Member States’ (MS) losses through the increasingly aggressive use of tax-avoidance schemes by multinational companies (MNCs) is difficult to estimate‚ but is considered serious. Press reports have highlighted the low tax paid by well-known‚ very successful companies. The tax reduction methods used by MNCs have been well known for decades. They include transfer pricing‚ the use of lower-tax jurisdictions‚ over-charging entities in highertax countries to reduce
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come out and implement the policies. Almost all of the firms had their headquarters in the US and they replicated their headquarters policies to a good extend in other offices around the world. Also other governments and regulatory bodies around the world came out with their country specific rules and regulations which are quite similar to the rules in the US. So these two factors ensured that rules which are followed in US are followed at the other places also. Policies might differ in their length
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As U.S. automobile firms rebuild their brand image‚ distribution networks and workforce from the massive government-sponsored corporate restructuring in recent years‚ and Japanese firms continue to struggle with under-capacity due to the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami‚ Korean-based firms have flourished (Ramsey & Takahashi‚ 2011). In particular‚ Hyundai has experienced rapid market growth in the U.S. market due in part to the recent struggles of its main competitors. Their success‚ however‚ is also
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Why Do Some Firms Become Global? 1. Introduction More and more companies all over the world have joined the army of firms that are running globally. Reasons of companies becoming increasingly international can vary‚while the ultimate goal of going global turns out to be growth and expansion of the company. No matter whether a firm employs staff from international labour market or looks for exploration of new markets overseas‚ corresponding strategies can contribute a great deal to diversification
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