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Description Over the last two decades, rising internet and mobile phone penetration has changed the way we communicate and do business. E-commerce is relatively a novel concept. It is, at present, heavily leaning on the internet and mobile phone revolution to fundamentally alter the way...

Description This paper examines the effect of the advent and diffusion of e-commerce on supply-side industry structure. We specify a general industry model involving consumers with differing search costs buying products from heterogeneous producers. We interpret e-commerce as a reduction in...

Description Airlines were the earliest practitioners of e-commerce and airline ticket sales now consist the largest portion of all product sales made online. That is because online sales bring greater benefits to airlines than to any other industry. Yet, the Internet brings blessings to the...

Description In the last few years, the way businesses deal with their waste has moved up the agenda. There has been a growing recognition that businesses, in both the commercial and industrial sector and the construction, demolition and excavation industries, need to be more aware of the...

Description Hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment. In the United States, the treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste is regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Hazardous wastes are defined...

Description Environmental pollution is the major problem associated with rapid industrialization, urbanization and rise in living standards of people. Efforts has to be made for controlling pollution arising out of the disposal of wastes by conversion of these unwanted wastes into utilizable raw...

Description Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a critical role in a nation's economy. The US Small Business Administration (2010) estimates SMEs represent 99.7 % of all employer firms, employ about 50% of the private sector workforce, and pay more than 45% of total private payroll in...

Description White Paper Study on Problems in Financing and Managing Small-Scale Enterprises in Bangledesh Sometimes called a small business, a small-scale enterprise is a business that employs a small number of workers and does not have a high volume of sales. Such enterprises are generally...

Description Poverty is becoming an obvious phenomenon worldwide and in line with Ikoni, poverty is noticeable in all parts of the world but the extent, severity and characteristics of poverty may differ within and across countries. Ajala and Fakoye in Ogbuabor, Malaolu and Elias confirmed that...

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...

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...