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Merging Two Sales Forces: An Opportunity For Disaster
Feb 2010
With increasing frequency, one is encountering sales forces that are in the process of merging with other sales organizations. These mergers are not always the result of corporate acquisitions,...
Provided by Vantage Point Performance
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White Papers
Realising Benefits From Current ERP And CRM Implementations: An Empirical Study
Jun 2010
This paper presents the findings of a study that examines the benefits that organizations are realizing from the implementation and use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer...
Provided by University of Koblenz-Landau
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Webcasts
Company Building As Shakespearean Tragedy
Oct 2008
Silicon Valley lore includes anecdotes of company founders being thrown out of their own companies. But starting a company and growing a company are two different skill sets, says serial...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Getting More From Lean: Seven Success Factors
Mar 2010
When Toyota created its lean production system in the late 1950s - drawing on the thinking of Henry Ford and W. Edwards Deming - the Japanese company revolutionized auto manufacturing. Since then,...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
China's Digital Generations: The 570-Million-Hour Opportunity
Jul 2008
Many people outside China believe that few Chinese use digital devices beyond the mobile phone and that, for the most part, those who do use other digital devices live in the big eastern cities....
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Mentoring As A Business Strategy
Feb 2008
An important step to change perceptions regarding the concept of mentoring is to position mentoring correctly and to build a business case. In building a business case, start with the foundation....
Provided by Insala
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White Papers
Goal Alignment - What's In It For You?
Jan 2010
There is a strong correlation between a successful company and an effective goal setting process, and you are the owner of that process. Managers and the entire executive team should be a part of...
Provided by SuccessFactors
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White Papers
How To Help A Project Team Develop Meaningful Conclusions
Jan 2010
Why is it a problem that the project you are sponsoring is not developing (preliminary) conclusions? A key assumption is that the project is meant to develop conclusions and recommendations. There...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Avoiding The Eighth Deadly Sin: How To Ensure That Project Conclusions Are Implemented
Jan 2010
One of the main reasons for using internal project teams with end-to-end responsibilities that includes implementation instead of external consultants. Very often teams are more optimistic than...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Project Management Professional Skills Training
Jan 2010
Projects are an impermanent endeavour that is carried out to develop a unique product or service. For the successful completion of projects, a group of professionals work on it and that too with...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
The Business Case For Improving Complex Projects
Jan 2010
The direct value of project management is difficult to quantify as the value is secondary. Therefore, the initial reply to such a question should focus on helping the executive understand the...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Seven Key Principles Of Project Management
Jan 2009
Business justification: every project should lead to a worthwhile return on investment. In other words, one need to understand the benefits that a particular project will bring, before committing...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
How To Use Projects To Develop Your Employees
Sep 2010
Nearly everyone loves a challenge, especially your best employees. The author is wagering that they want to contribute more, and guarantee that the most motivated hope to showcase their talents...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Five Common Project Management Challenges
Jan 2010
When it comes to managing projects, there are many challenges faced by project managers, directors of operations, vice presidents of professional services, chief financial offers, and other...
Provided by Matt H. Evans
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White Papers
Doing More With Less: Increasing Fixed-Asset Productivity In The Downturn And Beyond
May 2010
When companies need to generate cash quickly, they target inventory, accounts receivable, and accounts payable. Although these components of working capital are often a critical source of cash,...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Sustainable Steelmaking: Meeting Today's Challenges, Forging Tomorrow's Solutions
Jun 2009
The current financial crisis has hit economies hard. Steelmakers around the world, facing collapsing demand and falling prices, are shifting their business priorities to focus primarily on...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
European Growth Champions In Insurance
Oct 2008
In the insurance industry, growth plays a major role in driving total shareholder return (TSR) performance. Capital markets reward high-growth insurers with above-average expectation premiums....
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Upstream Oil And Gas: An Evolving Ecosystem
Mar 2009
The competitive terrain in oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) has shifted in the last decade. Boundaries that once defined markets and separated the three major groups of competitors -...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Living With New Realities
Feb 2009
Banks originated loans but were less concerned with the underlying quality of these assets because they could quickly offload them to investors. And in the United States, mortgage brokers poured...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Project Portfolio Management Maturity
Jun 2009
Organizations are at the bottom rungs of the project portfolio management maturity ladder, and they have particularly immature portfolio performance management processes. These conclusions are...
Provided by Project Management Solutions
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Webcasts
Larry LeBlanc On Advanced Excel Analysis
Jan 2010
Professor LeBlanc's research interests include reducing spreadsheet risk, supply chain analysis, application of spreadsheet optimization models, implementation of algorithms for large-scale...
Provided by Vanderbilt University (Owen)
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White Papers
Best Practices In Risk-Based Internal Auditing
Nov 2009
In designing risk-based auditing and monitoring activities, it is important that the internal auditor works closely with the organization's senior leadership and the board, or committee of the...
Provided by Bloomsbury Information
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White Papers
Asian Private Equity: Coming Of Age
Oct 2010
Asian private equity's long-term returns have not been exceptional; while on par with returns in the United States, they are quite a bit behind Western Europe. Ten-year net returns for Asia stand...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Buybacks Are Back: Strategy Pays Off With Returns Of 103.5 Per Cent In First Year
Nov 2010
The basic strategy is to invest in US companies (1) that announce open market repurchase programmes and (2) that seem to be motivated by an undervalued stock price. Past research has shown that...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Investing In Unknown Stocks Could Yield Higher Returns
Aug 2010
The study found that investors stand to gain comparatively higher returns by punting on stocks that have no media coverage than those that enjoy a high media profile. Indeed, the study's survey of...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Risk Assessment: Keep It Simple
Jan 2010
The ability to assess risk and uncertainty is critical for investment banks and businesses. While some may advocate the use of complex models, INSEAD Dean of Faculty and Professor of Decision...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Reputational Risk Management: A Key Determinant Of Competitive Performance
Jan 2010
Assessing the damage to reputation takes a lot of data. "First the reputation-sensitive events have to be identified in terms of precisely when they become known to the market," Walter says. "Then...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
More Expensive Medication May Be More Potent
Jan 2010
Marketing variables not only influence people's perceptions and expectations, they actually influence the real efficacy of products such as medications. This is according to Ziv Carmon, INSEAD...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
M&As: Not Necessarily The Best Way To Grow Your Company
Oct 2010
Acquisitions are very expensive, they are very complex, and they are very disruptive for the organization, says Capron. But still CEOs regularly fall into the M&A trap - lured there by pressure:...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
China's Babytree: How It Achieved Its Growth Spurt
Aug 2010
Just three years after starting up, Babytree.com, a social networking site for parents in China already boasts some 12 million visitors, a mammoth feat by any standards. Co-founded by Allen Wang...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
How To Build Your Project
Jun 2008
It is axiomatic that as time frames to negotiate leases has grown substantially over the past several years, allowable design and construction schedules have shrunk significantly. In the face of...
Provided by Mihalovich Partners and The Space Place
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White Papers
Looking For Growth In All The Right Places
Jan 2010
What are the sources of corporate growth? If you take a middle-of-the-road view of markets, as many executives do, the answers may surprise you: averaging out the different growth rates in an...
Provided by Chief Executive Group
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White Papers
Pain Points Challenges For Future Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
Oct 2007
The questions asked in this paper are for the first: what pain points challenges are there for future enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and second, what pain points challenges should the...
Provided by Copenhagen Business School
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White Papers
A New Approach In Business Process Management
Nov 2008
The new wave of BPM (Business Process Management) is not Business Process Reenginering, enterprise application integration, workflow management or another packaged application - it's the synthesis...
Provided by RePEc
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White Papers
Analyzing Enterprise Resource Planning System Implementation Success Factors In The Engineering - Construction Industry
Sep 2008
Enterprise resource planning ERP systems offer many benefits to the engineering - construction industry. Many construction firms recognize the benefits of ERP system implementation; however, they...
Provided by American Society of Civil Engineers
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White Papers
Managing Operational Change With Crew Pairing Optimization
Jun 2010
This paper examines common uses of "What-if" modeling in the airline crew planning context including negotiating contract terms, responding to new operational realities, understanding the impact...
Provided by Kronos
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White Papers
Improving Your Odds Of CRM Success
Jul 2010
According to a 2010 report from industry research firm CSO Insights, over 75 percent of U.S. firms have implemented CRM strategies to accelerate top-line growth, improve the customer experience...
Provided by Customer Insight Group
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White Papers
Just Enough Documentation
Oct 2010
Is documentation a blessing or a curse? If you're working on an agile project does it get in the way? If you're updating a core system that runs your company's business, are you cursing the...
Provided by IRM Training
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White Papers
Planning For Growth: Customer Reach
Jul 2010
The Planning for growth report is based on further global research - both externally and internally - to try to form an overview of the next three years from the business world's perspective. The...
Provided by Ernst & Young
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White Papers
Mid-Market Manufacturers And The New Landscape For Enterprise Resource Planning
Jan 2008
Even companies that are considered relatively small in revenue, employment or client base now must act like the largest corporations in structuring and conducting their businesses. They find...
Provided by Infor
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White Papers
Government Spending Composition In A Simple Model Of Schumpeterian Growth
Nov 2009
This paper investigates the relevance of government purchasing behavior for innovation based economic growth. The authors construct a parsimonious Schumpeterian growth model in which demand from...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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White Papers
Socioeconomic Heritage And Rapid Firm Growth
Nov 2009
The present paper sheds light on how growth of young firms is affected by expansive strategies and the socioeconomic heritage of their main actors. "Socioeconomic heritage" has to do with...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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White Papers
Start-Ups, Long- And Short-Term Survivors And Their Effect On Regional Employment Growth
Oct 2009
The authors investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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White Papers
Does Growth Cause Structural Change, Or Is It The Other Way Round? A Dynamic Panel Data Analyses For Seven OECD Countries
May 2009
In economic development, structural change among the three main sectors of an economy accompanies with aggregate economic growth. Nevertheless the question whether economic growth causes...
Provided by Darmstadt University of Technology
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White Papers
R&D Subsidies To Start-Ups - Effective Drivers Of Patent Activity And Employment Growth?
Apr 2009
The present paper investigates the effectiveness of R&D subsidies given to start-ups. Taking an aggregate view rather than evaluating a single program, the authors estimate the impact of R&D...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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White Papers
Creative Industries, New Business Formation And Regional Economic Growth
Mar 2009
The present paper explores the impact exerted by a series of factors and processes including creativity, IPR activities, new business formation and the provision of amenities on economic growth...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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White Papers
The "V-Factor": Distribution, Timing And Correlates Of The Great Indian Growth Turnaround
Jan 2009
In the past two decades or so there has been a remarkable turnaround in Indian growth. From 1960 to 1985 output per capita in India (measured by real net domestic product1) grew by only 1.28% per...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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White Papers
The Role Of R&D In New Firm Growth
Dec 2008
Innovative start-ups are an important driver of economic growth in capitalist economies However, there is still no consensus on what effects innovation activities have for the growth of start-ups....
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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White Papers
Creative Destruction And Regional Productivity Growth: Evidence From The Dutch Manufacturing And Services Industries
Dec 2008
Do firm entry and exit improve the competitiveness of regions? If so, is this a universal mechanism or is it contingent on the type of industry or region in which creative destruction takes place?...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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White Papers
China, Japan, And The United States: Export-Led Growth, Reciprocity, And The Evolution Of The International Trading System
Jun 2009
First Japan and more recently China have pursued export-oriented growth strategies. While other Asian countries have done likewise, the cases of Japan and China are of particular interest because...
Provided by Brandeis University
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White Papers
Understanding The Contributions Of Reallocation To Productivity Growth: Lessons From A Comparative Firm-Level Analysis
Aug 2008
The authors analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods...
Provided by W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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White Papers
Washington Farm Growth And Diversification
Dec 2008
Growth and diversification patterns of size cohorts in four Washington state agricultural industries between the 1992 and 2002 agricultural censuses are examined. Three industries (wheat, apples,...
Provided by Washington State University
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White Papers
Productivity Growth And Convergence In U.S. Agriculture: New Cointegration Panel Data Results
Aug 2008
Dynamic effects of health and inter-state and inter-industry knowledge spillovers, Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth and convergence in U.S. agriculture are examined using recently developed...
Provided by Washington State University
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White Papers
What Does Initial Farm Size Imply About Growth And Diversification?
Aug 2008
Recent consolidation in agriculture has shifted production toward fewer but larger farms, reshaping business relationships between farmers, processors, input suppliers, and local communities. The...
Provided by Washington State University
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White Papers
Regional Growth And Development Theories Revisited
Sep 2009
Regional economics has a long tradition in analytical research and policy modelling, with the aim to enhance the authors' understanding of regional competitiveness conditions and of the emergence,...
Provided by University of Amsterdam
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White Papers
A Schumpeterian Model Of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, And Regional Economic Growth
Jan 2011
The authors provide the first theoretical analysis of a one sector, discrete time, Schumpeterian model of growth in a regional economy in which consumers are risk neutral, there is no population...
Provided by University of Amsterdam
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White Papers
Regional Growth And Unemployment. The Validity Of Okun's Law For The Finnish Regions
Jan 2011
This paper offers a concise critical overview of Okun's Law, with particular attention for its relevance in open economic systems of regions. Based on an extensive set of economic data for Finnish...
Provided by University of Amsterdam
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White Papers
Growth May Be Good For The Poor, But Decline Is Disastrous: On The Non-Robustness Of The Dollar - Kraay Result
Oct 2007
The Dollar-Kraay result (that the income elasticity of the lowest quintile's income is essentially one) is identified as a statistical artifact related to the irregular sampling intervals in their...
Provided by Elsevier
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White Papers
Creative Destruction And Economic Welfare In Swedish Regions: Spatial Dimensions Of Structural Change, Growth And Employment
Jun 2008
In its aim to explore some of the concrete consequences of regional renewal, this paper deals with the question to what extent dramatic structural transformation and renewal in Swedish regions is...
Provided by Vienna University
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White Papers
Growth Cycles: Transformation And Regional Development
Aug 2010
Departing from the renewed interest within economic history and neo-Schumpeterian perspectives on growth and economic transformation, the authors will suggest a theoretical framework for analyzing...
Provided by Vienna University
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White Papers
The Size Of The Government And Economic Growth: An Empirical Study Of Sri Lanka
Apr 2010
The new growth theory establishes, among other things, that government expenditure can manipulate economic growth of a country. This paper attempts to explain whether government expenditure...
Provided by Vienna University
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White Papers
US Growth And Budget Consolidation In The Nineties: Was There A Non-Keynesian Effect?
Aug 2007
The 1990s were an extraordinary period for the US economy, both because of declining budget deficits and beginning budget surpluses, as well as for high rates of economic growth. This paper...
Provided by Vienna University
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White Papers
Shareholder Value Orientation, Distribution And Growth - Short-And Medium-Run Effects In A Kaleckian Model
Mar 2008
The authors discuss the effects of rising shareholder power on distribution and capital accumulation in a Kaleckian model. Increasing shareholder power is associated with decreasing managements'...
Provided by Vienna University
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White Papers
The Finance-Dominated Accumulation Regime, Income Distribution And The Present Crisis
Apr 2009
The paper discusses the interactions of changes in income distribution and the accumulation dynamics in the post-Fordist accumulation regime in OECD countries, which is characterized by...
Provided by Vienna University
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White Papers
Decreasing Fertility, Economic Growth And The Intergenerational Wage Gap
Sep 2009
Persistent low fertility rates lead to lower population growth rates and eventually also to decreasing population sizes in most industrialized countries. There are fears that this demographic...
Provided by Vienna University
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White Papers
Population Ageing And Endogenous Economic Growth
Oct 2009
This paper investigates the consequences of population ageing for long-run economic growth perspectives. The authors introduce population ageing into a generalized model of endogenous...
Provided by Vienna University
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White Papers
International Reserves Accumulation And Endogenous Growth
Nov 2010
This paper investigates the interaction between capital flows and economic development in a dual-economy growth model. In the presence of a market failure in the allocation of resources between a...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
Growth Of Mail-Order Marketing In Illinois
May 2011
Mail-order marketing evolved into a successful business, growing rapidly from 1890 to 1910. Aaron Montgomery Ward, Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck were three of the most influential men concerning...
Provided by Eastern Illinois University
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White Papers
Sustainable Marketing, Equity, And Economic Growth: A Resource-Advantage, Economic Freedom Approach
Apr 2010
Sustainable marketing may be viewed as marketing that is within, and supportive of, sustainable economic development. Peattie (The Marketing Review 2(2):129 - 146, 2001) maintains that sustainable...
Provided by Academy of Marketing Science
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White Papers
Linking Marketing Capabilities With Profit Growth
Feb 2009
Profit growth is one of the primary drivers of a firm's stock price and therefore is a clear priority for managers. Yet little is known about how a firm's marketing capabilities may be linked with...
Provided by Elsevier
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White Papers
Volatility, Growth, And Welfare
Jan 2011
This paper constructs an endogenous growth model driven by self-fulfilling expectation shocks to explain the stylized fact that the average growth rate of GDP is related negatively to volatility...
Provided by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Intra-Group Transfers And Group Formation
Oct 2008
In this paper, the authors consider different forms of intra-group transfers and the resulting type of group formation. They introduce the concept of partial joint liability and revenue sharing...
Provided by Monash University
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White Papers
Outward FDI And Home Country Economic Growth: A Malaysian Case
Oct 2010
This paper attempts to explore the causality relationship between Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) and home country economic growth using Malaysia as a case. The main findings do not...
Provided by Monash University
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White Papers
Recent Exports Matter: Export Discoveries, FDI And Growth, An Empirical Assessment For MENA Countries
Oct 2008
Export diversification has become a priority goal for the development strategies of the MENA countries. In this paper, the authors aim at measuring the effects of exports' diversification on...
Provided by Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
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White Papers
China's Trade Imbalances: The Role Of FDI
Nov 2008
China has been running a large trade surplus with the rest of the world, particularly with the USA and EU. This has caused considerable diplomatic tensions and tremendous pressure on the Chinese...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
FDI And Growth: A New Look At A Still Puzzling Issue
Oct 2009
In this paper, the authors argue that the inadequacy of their underlying formal model can explain the failure of the existing empirical studies to exhibit a robust and convergent estimation of the...
Provided by Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
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White Papers
Estimating Technical Progress In Central And Eastern Europe. What Role For FDI?
Jan 2011
Technical progress is a key factor in economic growth, mainly due to its productivity enhancement. It is a fact that most innovation and new technologies are created in developed countries....
Provided by Babes-Bolyai University
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White Papers
Spillover And Backward Linkage Effects Of FDI: Empirical Evidence For The UK
Mar 2009
Recent work (including that of the author) on the impact of FDI has been based on micro-level (i.e. firms, establishments or plants) data, since this allows much greater control when examining...
Provided by University of Glasgow
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White Papers
Formation Of Heterogeneous Skills And Wage Growth
Sep 2009
This paper examines how primitive skills associated with occupations are formed and rewarded in the labor market over the careers of men. The objective task complexity measurement from the...
Provided by McMaster University
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White Papers
From Growth To Cycles Through Beliefs
Jun 2011
The author presents a theoretical model where the economy endogenously adopts the technological ideas of a slowly evolving technological frontier, and show that the presence of a "Technological...
Provided by McMaster University
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White Papers
China's Digital Generations: The 570-Million-Hour Opportunity
Jul 2008
Many people outside China believe that few Chinese use digital devices beyond the mobile phone and that, for the most part, those who do use other digital devices live in the big eastern cities....
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Mentoring As A Business Strategy
Feb 2008
An important step to change perceptions regarding the concept of mentoring is to position mentoring correctly and to build a business case. In building a business case, start with the foundation....
Provided by Insala
-
White Papers
Goal Alignment - What's In It For You?
Jan 2010
There is a strong correlation between a successful company and an effective goal setting process, and you are the owner of that process. Managers and the entire executive team should be a part of...
Provided by SuccessFactors
-
White Papers
How To Help A Project Team Develop Meaningful Conclusions
Jan 2010
Why is it a problem that the project you are sponsoring is not developing (preliminary) conclusions? A key assumption is that the project is meant to develop conclusions and recommendations. There...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Avoiding The Eighth Deadly Sin: How To Ensure That Project Conclusions Are Implemented
Jan 2010
One of the main reasons for using internal project teams with end-to-end responsibilities that includes implementation instead of external consultants. Very often teams are more optimistic than...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Project Management Professional Skills Training
Jan 2010
Projects are an impermanent endeavour that is carried out to develop a unique product or service. For the successful completion of projects, a group of professionals work on it and that too with...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
The Business Case For Improving Complex Projects
Jan 2010
The direct value of project management is difficult to quantify as the value is secondary. Therefore, the initial reply to such a question should focus on helping the executive understand the...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
Seven Key Principles Of Project Management
Jan 2009
Business justification: every project should lead to a worthwhile return on investment. In other words, one need to understand the benefits that a particular project will bring, before committing...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
-
White Papers
How To Use Projects To Develop Your Employees
Sep 2010
Nearly everyone loves a challenge, especially your best employees. The author is wagering that they want to contribute more, and guarantee that the most motivated hope to showcase their talents...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Five Common Project Management Challenges
Jan 2010
When it comes to managing projects, there are many challenges faced by project managers, directors of operations, vice presidents of professional services, chief financial offers, and other...
Provided by Matt H. Evans
-
White Papers
Doing More With Less: Increasing Fixed-Asset Productivity In The Downturn And Beyond
May 2010
When companies need to generate cash quickly, they target inventory, accounts receivable, and accounts payable. Although these components of working capital are often a critical source of cash,...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Sustainable Steelmaking: Meeting Today's Challenges, Forging Tomorrow's Solutions
Jun 2009
The current financial crisis has hit economies hard. Steelmakers around the world, facing collapsing demand and falling prices, are shifting their business priorities to focus primarily on...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
European Growth Champions In Insurance
Oct 2008
In the insurance industry, growth plays a major role in driving total shareholder return (TSR) performance. Capital markets reward high-growth insurers with above-average expectation premiums....
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Upstream Oil And Gas: An Evolving Ecosystem
Mar 2009
The competitive terrain in oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) has shifted in the last decade. Boundaries that once defined markets and separated the three major groups of competitors -...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Living With New Realities
Feb 2009
Banks originated loans but were less concerned with the underlying quality of these assets because they could quickly offload them to investors. And in the United States, mortgage brokers poured...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Project Portfolio Management Maturity
Jun 2009
Organizations are at the bottom rungs of the project portfolio management maturity ladder, and they have particularly immature portfolio performance management processes. These conclusions are...
Provided by Project Management Solutions
-
Webcasts
Larry LeBlanc On Advanced Excel Analysis
Jan 2010
Professor LeBlanc's research interests include reducing spreadsheet risk, supply chain analysis, application of spreadsheet optimization models, implementation of algorithms for large-scale...
Provided by Vanderbilt University (Owen)
-
White Papers
Best Practices In Risk-Based Internal Auditing
Nov 2009
In designing risk-based auditing and monitoring activities, it is important that the internal auditor works closely with the organization's senior leadership and the board, or committee of the...
Provided by Bloomsbury Information
-
White Papers
Asian Private Equity: Coming Of Age
Oct 2010
Asian private equity's long-term returns have not been exceptional; while on par with returns in the United States, they are quite a bit behind Western Europe. Ten-year net returns for Asia stand...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Buybacks Are Back: Strategy Pays Off With Returns Of 103.5 Per Cent In First Year
Nov 2010
The basic strategy is to invest in US companies (1) that announce open market repurchase programmes and (2) that seem to be motivated by an undervalued stock price. Past research has shown that...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Investing In Unknown Stocks Could Yield Higher Returns
Aug 2010
The study found that investors stand to gain comparatively higher returns by punting on stocks that have no media coverage than those that enjoy a high media profile. Indeed, the study's survey of...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Risk Assessment: Keep It Simple
Jan 2010
The ability to assess risk and uncertainty is critical for investment banks and businesses. While some may advocate the use of complex models, INSEAD Dean of Faculty and Professor of Decision...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Reputational Risk Management: A Key Determinant Of Competitive Performance
Jan 2010
Assessing the damage to reputation takes a lot of data. "First the reputation-sensitive events have to be identified in terms of precisely when they become known to the market," Walter says. "Then...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
More Expensive Medication May Be More Potent
Jan 2010
Marketing variables not only influence people's perceptions and expectations, they actually influence the real efficacy of products such as medications. This is according to Ziv Carmon, INSEAD...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
M&As: Not Necessarily The Best Way To Grow Your Company
Oct 2010
Acquisitions are very expensive, they are very complex, and they are very disruptive for the organization, says Capron. But still CEOs regularly fall into the M&A trap - lured there by pressure:...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
China's Babytree: How It Achieved Its Growth Spurt
Aug 2010
Just three years after starting up, Babytree.com, a social networking site for parents in China already boasts some 12 million visitors, a mammoth feat by any standards. Co-founded by Allen Wang...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
How To Build Your Project
Jun 2008
It is axiomatic that as time frames to negotiate leases has grown substantially over the past several years, allowable design and construction schedules have shrunk significantly. In the face of...
Provided by Mihalovich Partners and The Space Place
-
White Papers
Looking For Growth In All The Right Places
Jan 2010
What are the sources of corporate growth? If you take a middle-of-the-road view of markets, as many executives do, the answers may surprise you: averaging out the different growth rates in an...
Provided by Chief Executive Group
-
White Papers
Pain Points Challenges For Future Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
Oct 2007
The questions asked in this paper are for the first: what pain points challenges are there for future enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and second, what pain points challenges should the...
Provided by Copenhagen Business School
-
White Papers
A New Approach In Business Process Management
Nov 2008
The new wave of BPM (Business Process Management) is not Business Process Reenginering, enterprise application integration, workflow management or another packaged application - it's the synthesis...
Provided by RePEc
-
White Papers
Analyzing Enterprise Resource Planning System Implementation Success Factors In The Engineering - Construction Industry
Sep 2008
Enterprise resource planning ERP systems offer many benefits to the engineering - construction industry. Many construction firms recognize the benefits of ERP system implementation; however, they...
Provided by American Society of Civil Engineers
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White Papers
Managing Operational Change With Crew Pairing Optimization
Jun 2010
This paper examines common uses of "What-if" modeling in the airline crew planning context including negotiating contract terms, responding to new operational realities, understanding the impact...
Provided by Kronos
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White Papers
Improving Your Odds Of CRM Success
Jul 2010
According to a 2010 report from industry research firm CSO Insights, over 75 percent of U.S. firms have implemented CRM strategies to accelerate top-line growth, improve the customer experience...
Provided by Customer Insight Group
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White Papers
Just Enough Documentation
Oct 2010
Is documentation a blessing or a curse? If you're working on an agile project does it get in the way? If you're updating a core system that runs your company's business, are you cursing the...
Provided by IRM Training
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White Papers
Planning For Growth: Customer Reach
Jul 2010
The Planning for growth report is based on further global research - both externally and internally - to try to form an overview of the next three years from the business world's perspective. The...
Provided by Ernst & Young
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White Papers
Mid-Market Manufacturers And The New Landscape For Enterprise Resource Planning
Jan 2008
Even companies that are considered relatively small in revenue, employment or client base now must act like the largest corporations in structuring and conducting their businesses. They find...
Provided by Infor
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White Papers
Distributing Applications For Disaster Planning And Availability
Sep 2010
Very few organizations - typically only large, globally distributed companies or web companies that have a reason for local geographic presence - have the foresight and the budget to prepare for...
Provided by F5
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White Papers
The process Of Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation and Business Process Re-Engineering
Sep 2008
Using an innovative process model, authors describe and analyse the process of introducing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in two Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises and...
Provided by University of Manchester
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White Papers
SOA-Based Approach To The Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation In Small Enterprises
Jan 2008
The sector of small enterprises is characterized by a specific approach to the planning activities, determined by the circumstances of low margin and risk-driven business. The primary focus of...
Provided by University of Nis
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White Papers
Practical Disaster Recovery Planning A Step-by-Step Guide
Jan 2007
The primary goal of this guide is not simply to provide a checklist of tasks, but to help to develop an understanding of the Disaster Recovery (DR) planning process and the principles that...
Provided by CA (Computer Associates)
