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Description Organizations typically strive to attain some long-term goal (vision) with a defined purpose (mission) following a general plan. Strategic planning is the process of defining/formulating such a general plan for an organization encapsulating its intentions and actions, encompassing a...

Description It is odd in some ways to be comparing Amazon and eBay. To most people, Amazon is a retailer selling products to consumers and eBay is an auction house where consumers congregate to sell to one another. However, a keen analysis reveals that these two companies are direct competitors...

Description Online social shopping is a new business model emerging in E-Commerce world and becoming quite popular in recent years. Online social-shopping website is where people can recommend their favorite products for others to discover and purchase online. Online social shopping combines...

Description South Africa has entered the era of industry transformation charters that have to be harmonised with the Department of Trade and Industry's broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) scorecard and codes of good practice. In these charters, targets are set with regard to...

Description Growing political and academic interest in entrepreneurship and business demography, and particularly the role and value of new businesses in national economies, is prompting various research projects on these topics. One of the main issues faced by researchers and policy makers is...

Description Peak cane prices, high interest costs, low sugar realisations, low ethanol prices, low yielding cane, global turmoil, controlled sector, export quota and industry cyclicality. The year 2011-12 was possibly the most challenging year for India’s sugar industry. And yet, Dhampur...

Description Globally, India is a key sugar geography, since it is the largest consumer and the second largest producer. The global landscape is highly influenced by Brazil, given that it is the least cost producer and the largest exporter of sugar. Ethanol has had a significant influence on the...

Description Sugar Industry is the second largest agro-based industry, next only to the textile industry and India is one of the largest producers and consumers of sugar in the world. The Indian Sugar Industry is playing a pivotal role in rural development, supporting over 50 million sugarcane...

Description In industry today the industrial accountant has a very important role to play in the structure of a manufacturing concern. He has moved, or is moving, from the position of a glorified clerk collecting historical data to a position where he should produce information which will serve...

Description G.S.R. 388(E).- ln exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 642, read with clause (d) of sub-section (1) of Section 209 of the companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), and in supersession of the notification of Government of India, Ministry of Law, Justice and Company...

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Description As a strategic marketing tool, marketing channels had, for many years, taken something of a "back seat" to the other three strategic areas of the marketing mix: product, price, and promotion. Many firms viewed marketing channel strategy as somewhat of a "leftover" after the more...

Description Rural Community is set outside of the city and towns. Rural communities are often farm lands. However, a rural community can also be woodland forests, plains, deserts, and prairies. There are few buildings, businesses, and people in rural communities. In these communities people live...

Description One of the main objectives facing marketers is to present consumers with information on which to base their decisions (Anderson and Rubin 1986; Bettman 1975). Presenting such information is not simple, and it contains an interesting dilemma. On the one hand, a vast amount of...

Description We find that order flows are highly informative about future exchange rates and provide significant economic value for the few large dealers who have access to these flows. Moreover, customer groups systematically engage in risk sharing with each other and differ markedly in their...

Description Market orientation research has accumulated a variety of findingsover the past two decades, during which researchers have emphasized the importance of information flow within an organization. However, even though market information isvery important for the organizationʼsadaptation to...

Description Productivity in the construction industry is trailing other industries. Architects and engineers are slowly adapting to a more digital way of working. Contractors are, on the other hand, not following this development, although they can see the advantage in using digital information...

Description The right management of information is crucial in construction projects and has been studied by many researchers. This paper begins by defining and discussing some information management concepts. In particular, it proposes a reflection about the pull-push model for transferring...

Description It is almost a commonplace to describe the current business environmental setting as turbulent. The marketplace has become more global and service oriented and clients' tastes have become more demanding and sophisticated (Albino et al., 2002). Under this circumstance, many firms have...

Description The common modelsfor computersecurity are proving inadequate. Security models have two goals: preventing accidental or malicious destruction of information, and controlling the release and propagation of that information. Only the first of these goals is supported well at present, by...