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Powering Strategies: Profit Power In A Transparent And Interdependent World
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Why is the 21st century economy so different, and how can for-profit companies and not-for-profit organizations succeed? During the past decade, the business world has crossed a threshold from...
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SEBI?s Regulation Of The Indian Securities Market: A Critical Review Of The Major Developments
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Indian securities market is among the safest and the most efficient trading destinations internationally. The Indian corporate governance code is compared to the Sarbanes Oxley Act of the USA....
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After Market Pricing Performance Of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs): Indian IPO Market 2002-2006
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper is motivated by the apparent belief that IPOs are underpriced on the initial listing day and thereafter underperforms compared to the market benchmark. While evaluation of the listing...
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How Celebrities Are Used In Indian Television Commercials
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The usage of celebrities by the Indian advertising agencies has experienced a phenomenal increase in the last five years. Effective communication between the marketer and the consumers is the need...
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Conspicuous Consumption: Is That All Bad? Investigating The Alternative Paradigm
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Effort in studying the phenomenon of conspicuous consumption can be adequately justified by the concept's near universality and timelessness. The Theory of Veblen presents conspicuousness as a...
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Activity Theory: A Useful Framework For Analysing Project-Based Organizations
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper contributes to the efforts to understand the dynamics of project mode of work and project-based organizations by highlighting the usefulness of Activity Theory and the associated...
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Electronica Finance Limited: Designing The Future Of Micro, Small, And Medium Enterprises
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Electronica Finance Limited (EFL), an Asset Finance Company (AFC), has been financing Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) since its inception. Initially, it was offering leasing and hire...
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Espoused Organizational Values, Vision, And Corporate Social Responsibility: Does It Matter To Organizational Members?
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Organizational values are beliefs held by organizational members regarding the means and ends that organizations 'Ought to' identify in the running of the enterprise. The most basic level of...
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Look Who's Talking! Impact Of Communication Relationship Satisfaction On Justice Perceptions
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Communication in an organization forms an important part of most organizational processes. Effective communication leads to not only successful implementation of other processes such as change and...
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The World Of Online: New Opportunites For Marketeers
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
"Future is History." If ever this was true for anything, it is for the online medium. One couldn't have predicted five years ago that Facebook would overtake Google on volume of traffic to their...
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Collaborative Networks Are The Organization: An Innovation In Organization Design And Management
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this in-depth paper, the authors dive deeply into what it means to collaborate, moving far beyond simplistic ideas of working together or having a strategic alliance. The authors draw upon...
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New Media Experiences: Dealing With The Game Changer
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Over the last one decade, revolution in communication technology has triggered a communication revolution. The new media has brought new paradigms of communication and has become a game changer....
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Relevance Of Emotional Intelligence For Effective Job Performance: An Empirical Study
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
There has been an increase in interest in 'Emotional intelligence' within the Indian organization system in recent years. This increase has been attributed to the popularization of the construct...
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Organizational Readiness For Performance-Related Pay: Focus On Government Of India Employees
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper presents a framework designed to understand the variations in the PRP system for the managerial and operative level employees. Employee participation, delegation, transparency, and...
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The Globalizing State, Public Services And The New Governance Of Urban Local Communities In India: A Colloquium
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This colloquium brings together field research from six Indian states in order to examine the impact of globalization-related governance reform on public service delivery in the areas of health,...
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Why Should 5,000 Children Die In India Every Day? Major Causes Of Death And Managerial Challenges
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Globally, more than 10 million children, under five years of age, almost all in poor countries, die every year (20 children per minute), mostly from preventable causes. The major causes of child...
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Impact Of Adoption Of Yoga Way Of Life On The Reduction Of Job Burnout Of Managers
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Burnout Is a Prolonged Response to Chronic Emotional and Interpersonal Stressors on the Job, and Is Defined by the Three Dimensions of Exhaustion, Cynicism, and Inefficacy. Job Burn-Out Is a...
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Mainstreaming An Unorganized Industry: The Case Of Suguna Poultry
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) framework is quite rich with its concepts like sustainability, mainstreaming, stakeholders and their inclusiveness, citizenship, etc. The debate in CSR is...
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A Quest For Social Justice: A Colloquium To Build A Network
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The goal of social justice can sometimes be seen as making a lion's den, a happy zoo. It can also be seen as balancing the competing claims for common spaces, be it in economic, social or cultural...
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Poverty Alleviation At An International Development Organization: Resurrecting The Human Being As Subject
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the field experiences of one of the authors in designing workshops for Finance Ministers of several countries at a leading international development organization. The power of...
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Deciding Information Systems (IS) Outsourcing: A Multi-Criteria Hierarchical Approach
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Outsourcing is a complex decision process, which is the interplay of various internal as well as external environmental factors. The concerned manager has to factor various dimensions, both short...
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Housing And The Financial Crisis In The US: Cause Or Symptom?
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Great Recession has the US economy in a vice-like grip. Not since the Depression has there been such a steady stream of negative economic and business news. The crisis started when a prolonged...
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Global Economic Meltdown: Greenspan's Legacy
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Global Credit Crisis that began like a small fire in the US housing finance market in 2007 spread and became a forest fire that first engulfed the US, then the Western economies, and...
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From Wall Street To Main Street: The Financial Crisis In The US
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The financial crisis that originated in the US quickly spread to Europe and now is affecting most of the world, including India. This discussion is divided into two parts: the causes of the...
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Indian Financial Sector And The Global Financial Crisis
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Indian financial sector had very limited exposure to subprime securities and other toxic assets at the heart of the global financial crisis. However, the Indian financial sector was impacted...
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US Economic And Financial Meltdown: How India Is Braving Its Global Domino Effects
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The US economy has been experiencing economically difficult times, since the middle of 2007, which culminated in the economy, lapsing into recession in December 2007. Once the crisis got...
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The Fiscal Response To The Global Crisis
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Indian economy entered a new growth phase since 2003 with an average growth rate of 8.6 per cent compared to an average growth rate of 5.7 per cent in the decade between 1993-94 and 2002-03....
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Economic Slowdown And The Indian Corporate Sector
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Indian industry has dealt with economic slowdowns in the past but this one is in the nature of contagion effect of the Western recession. The full spectrum of the shades of the contagion is...
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Economic Slowdown And Indian Firms: An Overview
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The US financial crisis triggered by subprime mortgage defaults resulted in significant deterioration of credit and equity market conditions in most parts of the world. The crisis quickly turned...
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The Economic Downturn: Coping Strategies And The Way Forward
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Indian industry started experiencing the real impact of the global financial meltdown from the last quarter of 2008. The rapidity with which the slowdown set in too many industry leaders by...
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The Post-Recession Challenge Of Innovation
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The world is grappling with several complex economic issues. The ability of China to strike terror in nations and boardrooms adds to the complexity. China implements and presents huge developments...
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Asymmetric Volatility And Cross Correlations In Stock Returns Under Risk And Uncertainty
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Capital market efficiency is a matter of great interest for policy makers and investors in designing investment strategy. If Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) holds true, it will prevent the...
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An Exploratory Study On Negotiating Styles: Development Of A Measure
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Negotiation study as a tool in conflict management has been in vogue since long and spans the disciplinary boundaries. The outcome of business negotiations depends on bargainer characteristics,...
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Impact Of Mode Of Payment And Insider Ownership On Target And Acquirer's Announcement Returns In India
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the effect of mode of financing employed in mergers and acquisitions on the announcement period returns of the acquiring and the target companies' shareholders in India. This...
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Facilitating Organizational Unlearning Using Appreciative Inquiry As An Intervention
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Drawing upon theoretical bases, this paper attempts to demonstrate a relationship between Appreciative Inquiry (AI), an Organizational Development (OD) intervention, and organizational unlearning....
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Do NGOs Differ? How, With What Consequences?
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
NGOs are an integral part of present day organizational landscape. They are perceived to be much better than government and for-profit businesses in delivering the social welfare goods and...
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Role Of Indian Forest Products Industry In Climate Change Mitigation: A Managerial Perspective
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Climate change is a global environmental problem that has been associated with increasing concentrations of GreenHouse Gases (GHGs). Forest products definitely play a significant role in...
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Bivariate Analysis Of Capital Asset Pricing Model In Indian Capital Market
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) establishes the relationship between risks and returns in the efficient capital markets. A review of studies conducted for various markets in the world reveals...
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Toward A Grounded Theory Of Effective Business Incubation
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Business incubators are found all over the world. Yet, to date, no viable integrative theory of effective business incubation exists. This paper outlines a grounded theory of incubation, driven by...
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Ethical Leader Behaviour And Leader-Member Exchange As Predictors Of Subordinate Behaviours
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The role of leader or leadership in management has occupied the attention of both theorists and practitioners alike. Of late, its role has also been considered significant in ethical issues given...
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Understanding The Process Of Transitioning To Customer Value Management
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Customer Value Management (CVM) has emerged as an important vehicle for customer retention in business markets. Supplier firms under increasing pressure from relentless competitive forces are...
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High Technology Marketing: Conceptualization And Case Study
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
High technology products have certain salient characteristics that differentiate them from low technology consumer products. The marketers of the products of the latter type may adjust their...
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Ethics In Organizations: The Case Of Tata Steel
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The concern for ethical decision-making among the regulators, social groups, and managers has substantially increased in recent years following the failure of some of the prominent business...
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Change Management
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Based on their change management model, the authors then go on to structure the remaining portions of the book in six chapters, two of which deal exclusively with appreciating change, a term with...
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Management Research In Emerging Economies
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The new market realities present challenges for the Asia-Pacific exchanges thus enhancing the importance of market design. This paper reviews the market design of ten of the Asia-Pacific region's...
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The Big Pictures: Sources Of National Competitiveness In The Global Movie Industry
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the global film industry through a detailed discussion of four national players (US, Canada, China, and Hong Kong). According to Porter, the international competitiveness of...
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Management Of Rising Power By China And India In The 21st Century: Scope For Strategic Partnership
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The author's analysis of the existing and projected strengths and weaknesses of both countries in this paper leads him to the conclusion that both the countries have the potential to become global...
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Predictive Power Of Financial Risk Factors: An Empirical Analysis Of Default Companies
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides empirical evidence on the significance of financial risk factors in predicting default companies. Traditionally, credit decision process is built on accounting ratios derived...
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Understanding India From A Business Perspective: Opportunities And Challenges For MNCs
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
India has, over the last decade, achieved a position of pre-eminence in many spheres of economic activity, most notably in information technology, business process outsourcing, and various other...
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Regional Imbalance Under Federal Structure: A Comparison Of Canada And India
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
The problem of regional disparity in economic development in geographically large democratic countries gets inseparably linked with macro public policies and the economic philosophies behind them....
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Taxation And Corporate Payout Policy
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the dividend trends of 590 Indian companies over the period 1992-2004 of all manufacturing, non-government, non-financial, and non-banking companies listed on BSE for which...
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Developing Curricula Across Cultures
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the author describes the process of developing a doctoral curriculum in Organizational Psychology involving the participation of a team comprising administrators, faculty, and...
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Income Tax Compliance Cost Of Corporations In India, 2000-01
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
This is the paper of compliance costs of income taxation of corporations in India. Compliance costs are the costs of meeting obligations under the income tax law and in planning to save taxes....
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Characteristics Of Merging Firms In India: An Empirical Examination
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The process of corporate restructuring through mergers and acquisitions has occupied much relevance in post-liberalization period. The financial characteristics of a firm play a critical role in...
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Please Work From Home: The Immobility Of Labour In The Age Of Globalization
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Labor suffers from a relative immobility due to cultural factors, but this problem is endemic to not only external mobility as a demographic process, but also to the persistent differences and...
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Need Behavioural Orientation Of Dynamos And Drones In Organizations: A Maruti Experience
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Research has recognized the important role of personality in developing and selecting employees and in determining behavior at workplace. Personality is believed to affect decision-making,...
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Understanding New Venture Failure Due To Entrepreneur- Organization Goal Dissonance
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the real life case study (with names, identities, and situations disguised) of the chief executive of a start-up venture who tried to repeatedly salvage the start-up company...
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Appraisal Politics: Revisiting From Assessors? Perspective
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Politics is a bane of administrative systems such as performance appraisals. It not only debilitates the system's credibility in the eyes of various stakeholders, but also adversely affects the...
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Impact Of Monetary Policy On Banks? Growth Path
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper captures the dilemmas and challenges of formulating a favorable monetary policy and studies and projects the implications of the changing dimensions of monetary policy on the different...
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Indian Model Of Executive Burnout
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Burnout is described as a state of depletion of a person's resources and energy resulting in apathetic and impassive behavior towards others, having dysfunctional repercussions on the individual...
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Public Private Partnership In Transportation: The Case Of The Washington State
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
While the world has changed dramatically in the last five decades or so, transportation has not been able to keep pace with the overall development. However, in order to ensure prosperity of a...
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Genesis ? Creating Value Through Entrepreneurial Initiatives
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Entrepreneurship and its evolution are context-dependent. According to economists, entrepreneurship and its creation (organizations) are a result of inappropriate value-price composition in the...
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A Study Of Information Technology Effectiveness In Select Government Organizations In India
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The broad working propositions for this study have been formulated keeping in mind the working environment of the government organizations and the past studies that have looked at government...
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Differences In Occupational Commitment Amongst Scientists In Indian Defence, Academic, And Commercial R&D Organizations
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Occupational commitment is referred to as the psychological link between an individual and his occupation that is based on an affective reaction to that occupation. Thus a person with higher...
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Drucker: On Learning (To Learn) Management
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper argues that there is an intrinsic link between the concepts of "Learning-to-learn" and the "Knowledge worker" in the work of Peter Drucker. This is because the increasing life-span of...
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Regret And Disappointment: A Conceptualization Of Their Role In Ethical Decision-making
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Workplaces provide settings for the manifestation of an assortment of emotions that impact managerial decisions, ethical or otherwise, in a variety of ways. Most of the research work in this...
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Turnaround Excellence Six Studies Of Corporate Renewal
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Organizations are mortal. They can fall sick and die or recover. They can starve to death. They can bleed to death. Even when they are healthy, they may die if the external environment turns...
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Developing Advanced Decision- Making Skills In International Leaders And Managers
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Socially, economically, politically, and technologically, the world is transforming in complex ways that are beyond what the authors could have fathomed even five years ago. Now, more than ever,...
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Business Ethics: The Next Frontier For Globalizing Indian Companies
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Nowhere is the fast changing nature of the global business landscape more perceptible than on the ethics front. With a spate of recent unethical behaviors by large corporations in the Western...
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Hedonism And Culture: Impact On Shopping Behaviour A Research Agenda
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Increasingly consumer shopping behavior is being seen from the holistic perspective of the entire shopping experience. The holistic view requires a retailer to focus on the shopper experience with...
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Managing Large Projects In Emerging Markets
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The term, Emerging Market, was coined by IFC's Antoine W van Agtmael in 1981. World Bank defines an Emerging Market Economy (EME) as an economy with low-to-middle per capita income. EME countries...
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Pay Satisfaction Of Software Professionals In India
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores pay satisfaction-related issues of software professionals in India, specifically assessing the impact of different dimensions of pay satisfaction on intent to leave. Since...
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The Entrepreneurial Life Cycle: Perspectives And Experiences
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The interest in the entrepreneurship among the young is on the rise. The panel consisted of distinguished entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. This panel was organized as a part of the first...
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Leading And Executing Industry Change Through A Learning Network
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There is a widespread recognition of the fact that organizations need to continuously enhance their capabilities to be able to retain a competitive edge in a highly complex business environment....
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Dilemma Of Corporate Action: Empirical Evidences Of Bonus Issue Vs. Stock Split
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Corporate action is usually believed to offer some good news to the investors, particularly in case of amalgamation and mergers. In many cases, corporate actions do not involve any potential...
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Entrepreneurial Process: A Personalistic-Cognitive Platform Model
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Entrepreneurship theories and research deal with a variety of behavioral and non-behavioral processes and issues that explain the nature of entrepreneurship in different ways. The advances made in...
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Environmental Aspects Of Project Management
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the author stresses upon the need for environmental management for successful project completion and discusses the challenges of addressing the key environmental issues....
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Long-term Post-merger Performance Of Firms In India
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mergers are important corporate strategy actions that, among other things, said the firm in external growth and provide it competitive advantage. This area has spawned a vast amount of literature...
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Effect Of Organizational Culture On Creating Learned Helplessness Attributions In R&D Professionals: A Canonical Correlation Analysis
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Organizations must make effective use of their resources in order to succeed in today's global marketplace. To get the most out of their human resources, organizations empower employees to allow...
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Playing The Game Of Communication: Enhancing Skills Through A Reading Of Literature
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A noveau approach can be to study the nuances relating to conversation by using drama as a heuristic device to gain an understanding of the complexities governing structure of communication, goals...
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