INTRODUCTION Business growth is a good goal for most firms in general and is given great weight by the society. This could be seen with the list conjured up by the media‚ such as ‘Forbes Fast-Growing Companies’ and ‘Inc Fastest Growing Companies’ lists (Hupato 2011). The reason small firm growth has been prioritised by policy makers and the society is mainly due to its contribution to the economy (Bridge‚ O’Neill & Martin 2009). Small firm and entrepreneurship have so often been linked together
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Project title: Spillover effects of FDI: Do domestic manufacturing firms benefit from foreign direct investment in Vietnam. Introduction Back in the 1990s‚ foreign direct investment (FDI) became the largest source of external finance for many developing countries. In Vietnam in particular‚ the Law on Foreign Investment promulgated in the 1986 Congress to attract FDI was considered the first step of the doi moi (renovation) reform. The cumulative FDI increased from 28 projects of total US$ 140
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CEO and CFO perceptions about AIS impact on firm performance and financial reporting: How do SOX‚ COSO‚ and the implementation of IT help reduce fraud and increase productivity in a business? In the multifaceted‚ dynamic‚ corporate global milieu‚ imminent rifts continue to rattle the arenas of accounting/finance. The personal ambitions of CEO’s and CFO’s outweighed their responsibilities toward shareholders‚ employees‚ operations‚ civic/ethical duties‚ and the general financial system. CEO’s primarily
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Entrepreneurial leadership and context in Chinese firms: a tale of two Chinese private enterprises Catherine L. Wanga*‚ Ding Ding Teeb and Pervaiz K. Ahmedb a School of Management‚ Royal Holloway University of London‚ Egham Hill‚ Egham‚ Surrey‚ TW20 0EX‚ UK; bSchool of Business‚ Monash University‚ Sunway Campus‚ Jalan Lagoon Selatan‚ 46150 Bandar Sunway‚ Selangor Darul Ehsan‚ Malaysia We focus on entrepreneurial leadership styles and context in Chinese firms. Drawing on exploratory case study evidence from
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Essay Question 1: Recreation & Sports Equipment Corporation sells a product that is capable of seriously injuring consumers who misuse it in a foreseeable way. Explain whether the firm owe an ethical duty to take this product off the market. Describe the conflicts that might arise if the firm stops selling this product. Firms rarely take products off the market just because of the potential that some idiot can misuse the product. Some products can be misused somehow and way too often the misuse is intentional
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CVP Analysis | The CVP analysis helps in taking more than one decisions in a firm. How would you substantiate this statement for a unit under expansion phase | | Abstract Companies commonly face major uncertainties in their product markets‚ particularly in the manufacturing industry where competition is often fierce and consumer tastes change rapidly. Managers need to estimate future revenues‚ costs‚ and profits to help them plan and monitor operations and to decide the mix and volumes of goods
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Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal Volume 1 Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal Issue 1 Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal Article 1 Accounting Research and Theory: The age of neoempiricism M. Gaffikin University of Wollongong‚ gaffikin@uow.edu.au Follow this and additional works at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/aabfj Copyright ©2007 Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal and Authors. Recommended Citation Gaffikin‚ M.‚ Accounting
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This project involves the establishment of level of professionalism of Public Relations practitioners to be conducted within PR firms/agencies allocated in Nairobi. It is important to professionalize PR since every organization cannot work minus Public Relations activities and therefore there is a need to establish the practitioners level of professionalism CHAPTER 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION LEVEL OF PROFESSIONALISM OF PR PRACTITIONERS IN NAIROBI The level of professionalism of Public Relations
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The Great Unwatched? Why can’t media placement firms guarantee online ad placements? As a marketer‚ is this a business model they need to just “deal with”? The structure of the online advertising system is complex and there are so many clutters between the advertiser and the consumers‚ as mentioned in the article‚ for it is the programming that is doing the entire ad placement. And even with all the checks and balance the computer is doing it still cannot guarantee 100% where the ad will be placed
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Services and Solutions Inc. (http://www.e3space.com) has acquired an equity position in Instant Water Technologies‚ LLC (IWT: www.nationswatertest.biz) which provides water reclamation technology. The same transaction included the purchase of marketing firm‚ Originare‚ which was also owned by Michael DelGrosso. E3 will work to develop and further commercialize key technologies created by IWT for water reclamation projects in the oil & gas industry‚ mining services and industrial pollution. E3 will
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