Since Nigeria attained independence in 1960‚ considerable efforts have been directed towards industrial development. The initial efforts were government-led through the vehicle of large industry‚ but lately‚ emphasis has shifted to Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) following the lessons learnt from the success of SMEs in the economic growth of Asian countries (Ojo‚ 2003). Thus‚ the recent industrial development drive in Nigeria has focused on sustainable development through small business development
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Strategic Management E-Case: Alternative Beverage Market Analysis of the Global Specialty Beverage Industry The industry in which PepsiCo produces and distributes its specialty beverages is vast and ever changing. With sales of carbonated soft drinks declining the past five years in a row‚ PepsiCo needed to look elsewhere to stimulate growth in its core business. PepsiCo thought it had found this growth in the alternative beverage industry. Pepsi expanded its line of beverage to include brands such
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Economy of Vietnam By Adam McCarty Introduction Vietnam has been a country ruled by colonists‚ divided or at war for most of the twentieth century. Unification of the country in 1976 was followed by invasion of Cambodia in 1978‚ and a subsequent brief but violent war with China. This troubled history had profound consequences for economic development in general‚ and attempts to impose central planning in particular. Central planning was imposed upon Northern Vietnam in the 1950s‚ and upon
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Taylor “Principles of Scientific Management” Management’s principle: secure the maximum prosperity for the employer and the employee Aim for high excellence and permanent prosperity Maximum prosperity for employee: higher wages + develop worker to highest maximum efficiency to get highest quality of work Max prosperity for employer and employee should = management Scientific management: these fundamental interests are the same since both benefit from each other (long term) Employer (high
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Theories of Growth of Small Enterprises Various theoretical models have been developed which describe the growth of small businesses. One class of theoretical models focus on the learning process‚ either active or passive‚ and the other models refer to the stochastic and deterministic approaches. In the passive learning model (Jovanic 1982 cited in Liedholm 2001)‚ a firm enters a market without knowing its own potential growth. Only after entry does the firm start to learn about the distribution
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BRADEN SCALE – For Predicting Pressure Sore Risk DATE OF ASSESS SEVERE RISK: Total score 9 HIGH RISK: Total score 10-12 MODERATE RISK: Total score 13-14 MILD RISK: Total score 15-18 RISK FACTOR SCORE/DESCRIPTION SENSORY PERCEPTION 1. COMPLETELY LIMITED – Unresponsive Ability to respond meaningfully to pressure-related discomfort (does not moan‚ flinch‚ or grasp) to painful stimuli‚ due to diminished level of consciousness or sedation‚ OR limited ability to feel pain over most of body surface
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Dear ladies and gentlemen‚ I am a member of the Brazilian Government and we believe that large scale development should be allowed in the Amazon rainforest and I am going to give you our reasons in this speech. Firstly we know that the tourism industry is one of the country’s biggest employers‚ involving one in every eleven workers. It contributes an estimated 8 percent to the country’s GDP. In the rainforest quite a substantial amount of developments will be to do with tourism therefore making
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population with sustained growth from a simple‚ low-income economy to a modern‚ high-income economy. (http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_development) Bangladesh is an economically developing country. We cannot develop our country because of some major economic barriers. Economic development of a country effected by many facts including political‚ economical‚ geographical‚ infrastructural‚ international economy system‚ scarcity of resources‚ Natural disaster‚ corruption
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election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. Roosevelt’s extensive program to restore the economy made up the New Deal. Overall‚ these legislative measures dealt with assisting people financially‚ reform other systems and institutions‚ and recover the prosperity before the Depression. While not all were entirely successful‚ the various programs all contributed to the eventual‚ though gradual‚ recovery of the economy. Age of the Radio: Radio reached its climax in the 1930s when millions of Americans
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PepsiCo Inc – Background analysis using Porters five forces Introduction PepsiCo Inc (NYSE:PEP) is the second largest food and beverage (F&B) company globally‚ with revenues of US$58bn in 2010 trailing only Nestle of Switzerland. About half of PEP’s revenues are generated from its beverage business‚ with the balance primarily from snack foods. In this report‚ we review PEP’s history‚ global footprint‚ key strategies and business drivers then evaluate its two core divisions’ competitive positions
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