Board Effectiveness* Gavin J. Nicholson** and Geoffrey C. Kiel Pressure on boards to improve corporate performance and management oversight has led to a series of inquiries and reports advocating governance reform. These reports largely reflect an agency perspective of governance and seek to ensure greater board independence from and control of management. While board independence is important to good governance‚ we contend that frameworks‚ models and advice centred on one element of governance
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Advertising and Religion Anyone who seems to be in the business of promoting themselves or their product is turning to religion to gain a larger audience. Take the religion of Kaballah for instance‚ five years ago many of us would openly admit that we had never heard of the religion before. But now‚ thanks to the media many of us know Kaballah is the religion practiced by such celebrities as Madonna and Britney Spears. In all actuality Kaballah is a more spiritual branch of the Jewish religion
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ABSTRACT De Dana Dan‚ Wake Up Sid‚ Dhoom‚ Phir Hera Pheri and Matrix are some excellent examples of movies with covert advertising. Brands such as Coca Cola‚ ICICI Bank‚ Domino’s‚ Nokia‚ Aston Martin and Suzuki have placed themselves in these movies. Nowadays‚ these tactics are common in most of the films. Some very well managed product placements appear to be quiet natural‚ if not logical. But some seem to be badly inspired by a commercial spin-off‚ with all the negative consequences it may generate
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CURRENT EXTERNAL INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT FOR TRAVEL AGENCY BUSINESS IN NEW ZEALAND Executive summary This report provides an analysis of the current external industry environment for travel agency businesses in New Zealand. The research outlines the important factors for the business environment in terms of P.E.S.T and Porter’s 5 Forces. Under these two types of analyses‚ P.E.S.T analysis points out that Profitability and Marketing are the two key findings in Economic Factors while Information Communication
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UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN PHILOLOGY COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS AND TRANSLATION DEPARTMENT INTERCULTURAL ADVERTISING Report Performed by Svitlana Bukina Teacher: Kovalchuk I. M. Kyiv-2013 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. Language in advertising 2. Communication style in advertising 3. Colours‚ numbers and images in advertising 4. Cultural values in advertising CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION “Culture is a like dropping an Alka-seltzer
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GROWTH OF INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC RELATION WORLWIDE. FOCUS ON ITS OPERATION IN NIGERIA‚ EVALUATING ITS LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT AND THE IMPACT OF ITS PRACTISE ON CORPORATE SUCCESS. The History of Advertising Introduction “Advertising‚ a form of commercial mass communication designed to promote the sale of a product or service‚ or a message on behalf of an institution‚ organization‚ or candidate for political office.” In a primitive form‚ advertising has been around almost
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AIDA An advertising agency is a business or service dedicated to planning‚ handling and creating advertising for clients. These agencies are independent of clients and provide their skills and views to sell client’s services or products. Advertising agencies can also manage branding strategies‚ marketing and sales promotions for its clients. For an advertising agency‚ it is very important to realize that they can increase sales with their effort. Truly speaking‚ advertising agencies are minds
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Econ (2009) 7:207–236 DOI 10.1007/s11129-009-9066-z The effect of advertising on brand awareness and perceived quality: An empirical investigation using panel data C. Robert Clark · Ulrich Doraszelski · Michaela Draganska Received: 11 December 2007 / Accepted: 2 April 2009 / Published online: 8 May 2009 © Springer Science + Business Media‚ LLC 2009 Abstract We use a panel data set that combines annual brand-level advertising expenditures for over three hundred brands with measures of brand
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data from various primary‚ secondary‚ macroeconomic and demographic sources including: firms participating in the industry government/public agencies national‚ regional and international non-governmental organizations trade associations and their publications the business and trade press The Freedonia Group Consensus Forecasts dated February 2012 the findings of other industry studies by The Freedonia Group. Specific sources are listed in the Resources section of this publication for reference and
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Cégep de la Pocatière October 23rd‚ 2013 No more Mini Miss! Beauty contests are popular these days. Girls would do anything to win a small title or a big one like Miss Universe. I just found out about a new type of competition called Mini Miss. Instead of being for adults‚ it’s open to everyone aged from one month to eighteen years old! Isn’t that crazy? Your child could be 2 months and would be able to participate! I think that the Mini Miss contest should not exist and definitely not promoted
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