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Affiliate: a company that is controlled by another or is a member of a group, or either of two companies that owns a minority of the...; Affiliate definition on BNET »

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The 5-Minute Guide To Motivating Affiliates And Exploding Your Infoproduct Sales: Affiliate programs are a good way to get your business growing quickly and exponentially, but the reality is that most of your affiliates will never make any sales at all. Only about 5% of your affiliates will have the skills and assets needed to succeed. While affiliate programs are a...; Tags: Sales strategy, Asset management, affiliate, asset, sales; White papers 2007-06-10
Consolidation of HR, Payroll and Benefits Processes and PeopleSoft Upgrade for the North American Division of a Global Automotive OEM: The client is the North American division of a global automotive OEM headquartered in Japan, with operations in multiple locations across USA, Canada and Mexico and over 25,000+ employees. As a part of its global workforce integration program, the client intends to provide a robust and unified HRMS system. HR...; Tags: Infosys Technologies Ltd., Human Resources, workforce, OEM, HRMS, data source, benefit; Case studies
Plains Habitat: Most of Habitat's 1400+ American affiliates build wood frame houses. However, some affiliates are experimenting with other systems including straw bale construction, ICFs, and SIPs. Sumter County Habitat for Humanity, the original affiliate started by Habitat founder Millard Fuller, partnered with the Department of Energy and the Structural Insulated Panel...; Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Florida Solar Energy Center, SIP, affiliate; Case studies
STP at Saint-Gobain: La Direction de la Tresorerie et du Financement (DTF) - the treasury function of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain - serves over 1,000 affiliates of the Paris -headquartered building materials production and distribution company. Saint-Gobain went live in 2001 with a SunGard solution covering treasury management, deal input, risk management, debt issue...; Tags: Financial services, SunGard Data Systems Inc., affiliate, treasury management, risk management; Case studies
How Web Advertisers Can Avoid Being Ripped Off: A question for Web advertisers: Do you get what you pay for? If you answered yes, you might be a little hasty in that opinion, especially if you use an online affiliate program to generate sales. You may be paying referral fees for business you would...; Tags: Sales force management, Litigation, Sean Silverthorne, Web, Dell Computer Corp., affiliate, commission, advertiser, Edelman; Blog posts 2008-03-27

Maximizing Affiliate Marketing on the Web: Through affiliate marketing, a company (the affiliate) induces other companies to place banner ads and buttons on its site. The affiliate then receives commissions from sales generated through those ads and buttons. For example, Amazon.com, the pioneer of affiliate marketing, allows other Web sites to publish information about their books...; Tags: Benefits, Sales force management, BNET Editorial, affiliate, compensation, commission, marketing, Amazon.com Inc., banner advertisement, Web site, incentive, Web, newsletter, sales, payment, brand, agreement, advertisement, e-mail; Articles 2007-12-04
Affiliate Marketers Take Lessons From Media Agencies: This paper explains six key learnings that affiliate marketers should consider when running and securing affiliate programmes - to ensure maximum returns: an understanding of how marketing functions operate and how merchants work is essential; affiliate marketers need to act as a filter between merchants and affiliates; tailored reporting for...; Tags: Marketing research, affiliate, marketing, branding, agency; White papers 2007-08-13
Distance Costs And Multinationals' Foreign Activities: This paper derives a gravity equation from two general equilibrium models with multi-national firms: a symmetric firm model where foreign affiliates rely on specific intermediate goods and a heterogenous firms model with country-specific fixed costs. Although the reduced form gravity equation is the same, the structural models behind it differ....; Tags: Affiliate, Gravity Equation, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales; White papers 2006-10-13
Foreign Direct Investment And Productivity Spillovers: Identifying Linkages Through Product-Based Measures: This paper analyzes direct and indirect effects of foreign ownership on productivity in the Turkish manufacturing plants between 1990 and 1996. First, based on Olley-Pakes production function estimates, foreign affiliates are shown to be more productive than local plants. Using sectoral output shares of foreign affiliates and 1990 input-output matrix...; Tags: linkage, affiliate, foreign direct investment, manufacturing, industry; White papers 2005-12-01
Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer?: This paper examines how technology transfer within U.S. multinational firms changes in response to a series of IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) reforms undertaken by 16 countries over the 1982-1999 period. Analysis of detailed firm-level data reveals that royalty payments for technology transferred to affiliates increase at the time of reforms,...; Tags: Research & Development, National Bureau of Economic Research, affiliate, intellectual property right, R&D, intellectual property, analysis; White papers 2005-07-01
Economic Effects of Regional Tax Havens: How does the opportunity to use tax havens influence economic activity in nearby non-haven countries? Analysis of affiliate-level data indicates that American multinational firms use tax haven affiliates to reallocate taxable income away from high-tax jurisdictions and to defer home country taxes on foreign income. Ownership of tax haven affiliates...; Tags: Taxes, Free trade, National Bureau of Economic Research, use tax, affiliate, tax, income, analysis; White papers 2004-09-01
Capital Controls, Liberalizations, And Foreign Direct Investment: Affiliate-level evidence indicates that American multinational firms circumvent capital controls by adjusting their reported intrafirm trade, affiliate profitability, and dividend repatriations. As a result, the reported profit impact of local capital controls is comparable to the effect of 24 percent higher corporate tax rates, and affiliates located in countries imposing...; Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Financial Planning, Investment, Free trade, Harvard University, foreign direct investment, affiliate, dividend, interest rate, liberalization, tax; White papers 2004-02-01
A Multinational Perspective on Capital Structure Choice and Internal Capital Markets: This paper examines the impact of local tax rates and capital market conditions on the level and composition of borrowing by foreign affiliates of American multinational corporations. The evidence indicates that 10 percent higher local tax rates are associated with 2.8 percent higher debt/asset ratios of American-owned affiliates, and that...; Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Investment, Financial services, capital market, affiliate, tax, capital structure, inflation; White papers 2003-05-23
Vertical Production Networks in Multinational Firms: In recent decades, growth of overall world trade has been driven in large part by the rapid growth of trade in intermediate inputs. Much of this input trade involves multinational firms locating input processing in their foreign affiliates, thereby creating global vertical production networks. This paper uses firm-level data on...; Tags: National Bureau of Economic Research, affiliate, industry, network; White papers 2003-05-01
Should You Add an Affiliate Program to the Marketing Mix?: This article defines about Affiliate Program used in market mix. In short, affiliates are "commissioned sales people" who promote a merchant's product or service on the Internet. In return, they are paid a commission for each customer they bring in. Each affiliate is given a unique string of code...; Tags: SEARCH, Sales strategy, Channel management, Web site development, Sales force management, affiliate, search engine, banner advertisement, commission, Web, sales, Web site, monitor, e-mail, Internet, software; White papers 2003-01-01
Dividend Policy inside the Firm: This paper analyzes dividend remittances by a large panel of foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The dividend policies of foreign affiliates, which convey no signals to public capital markets, nevertheless resemble those used by publicly held companies in paying dividends to diffuse common shareholders. Robustness checks verify that dividend...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, dividend, affiliate, capital market, tax, shareholder; White papers 2002-01-08
Repatriation Taxes and Dividend Distortions: This paper analyzes the effect of repatriation taxes on dividend payments by the foreign affiliates of American multinational firms. The United States taxes the foreign incomes of American companies, grants credits for any foreign income taxes paid, and defers any taxes due on the unrepatriated earnings for those affiliates that...; Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Financial accounting, affiliate, tax, dividend, income, income tax; White papers 2001-09-26
Federal Reserve Regulatory Actions Governing Bank Transactions with Affiliates: Something Old, Something Borrowed and Something New: The Federal Reserve Board has recently issued final and proposed rules governing transactions between US banks and their affiliates. US regulators expect US banks to be in strict compliance with affiliate transaction rules as they are intended to insulate a bank from the risks of broader financial activities conducted by...; Tags: Financial services, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, affiliate, bank, Federal Reserve Board, financial, compliance; White papers 2001-05-29
Repatriation Taxes, Repatriation Strategies and Multinational Financial Policy: Several investment-repatriation strategies are added to the standard model of a multinational in which an affiliate is located in a low-tax country and is limited to two alternatives: repatriating taxable dividends to the parent or investing in its own real operations. In this model, affiliates can invest in passive assets,...; Tags: Taxes, Financial accounting, affiliate, strategy, tax, dividend, theory, asset, financial; White papers 2001-02-27
The Effects of Geographic Expansion on Bank Efficiency: It is argued in the paper that the parent organizations exercise some control over the efficiency of their affiliates, although this control tends to dissipate with distance to the affiliate. However, on average, distance-related efficiency effects tend to be modest, suggesting that some efficient organizations can overcome any effects of...; Tags: affiliate, bank; White papers 2001-01-01