Successful companies organise and run their business activities in an efficient manner. Core activities are completed on time and within specified resource constraints. However to stay competitive in today's markets, companies need to continually improve their efficiency - business activities need to be completed more quickly, to higher quality and...
It has been widely acknowledged that entrepreneurship and innovation are vital forces in explaining the development of big business, international business and global competitiveness of economies in general. Yet, there is little consensus of what entrepreneurial activity and innovation actually entails. This paper discusses on a 'Stretched' definition of the...
The causes of global economic liberalization are commonly located in technological change, hegemonic leadership, or a combination of the two. This paper argues that the technological imperative for global liberalization, and the commercial power and thus the hegemony of the United States, both now rely on the prevention of free...
This paper challenges the existing mainstream law and economic literature arguing that patents do not, generally, confer monopolies, but that they should be understood and analysed as competitive properties. Such views do not provide vital reservations for the tightening, and increased enforcement, of the patent system that we are currently...
This paper considers personal information policy management in electronic banking through an investigation of the policy's evaluation and assessment from a neo-institutional perspective. The research stems from concern for the organizational treatment of consumer personal information. Without adequate means of considering how interested parties interact with the policy, the policy...
The management development strategy needs to provide the means whereby individuals and teams can exercise the right combination of academic leadership, operational and strategic management, and administration. The appropriate combination will vary across the College, depending upon circumstances. In developing this strategy it is recognised that effective management in higher...
Both Seven S and PEST enable one to think clearly about aspects that are relevant to the service but they are even more useful when one draws on them to conduct a perceptive and rigorous SWOT analysis. SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, in which strengths...
An undiluted policy of mutual recognition and "home country" control is often regarded as an effective remedy to the dysfunction of the single financial area. This paper intends to support this argument. In particular, it will make the case for genuine "home country" banking supervision over cross-border electronic banking activities...
Our study will be using a longitudinal design in order to address the research questions set out in the previous section. We propose to study, in detail, and over a twenty-four month period, the success of occupationally-linked literacy, language and numeracy programmes on a sample of 500 learner participants. We...
Are there productivity spillovers from FDI Foreign Direct Investment to domestic firms, and, if so, how much should host countries be willing to pay to attract FDI? To examine these questions it uses a plant-level panel covering U.K. manufacturing from 1973 through 1992. Paper estimates a significantly positive correlation between...
This paper based on field experiences and research intends to examine how the specific telecommunication sector is intertwined or interdependent with the macro econo-political regimes; and what the implications - i.e., pros and cons û of such liberal sector-specific policy are in Asia and the Pacific. It will finally attempt...
The School's key aims in HR terms are the recruitment, retention and development of the very best academic staff and high quality support staff to support its strategy of maintaining its present position as an internationally competitive research led institution, ranked in the top three of UK universities. The School's...
Bismarkcian social security systems are associated with larger public pension expenditures, a smaller fraction of private pension and lower income inequality than Beveridgean systems. This paper introduces a bidimensional voting model to account for all these features. Agents differ in age, income and their ability to invest in the capital...
The paper assesses the potential of the currency transaction taxes (CTT, widely known as the Tobin tax), to raise revenues for global development. Though Tobin proposed and others assessed CTT in terms of reducing exchange rate volatility and improving macroeconomic policy environments, this paper considers the CTT first and foremost...
This paper extends the empirical finance literature about the influence of institutional traders by investigating the impact of Polish pension funds trading on individual stock return autocorrelation. The pension reform in 1999 and the associated increase in institutional traders' investment activities provides the unique opportunity to receive additional insight into...
Records of 793,794 employees eligible to participate in 647 defined contribution pension plans are studied in this paper. About 71% of them choose to participate in the plans, and of the participants, 12% choose to contribute the maximum allowance, $10,500. The main findings are other than equal: participation rates, contributions...
This paper examines the issues surrounding the valuation of defined-benefit pension plans including benefit formulas, integration with Social Security, post-retirement benefit increases and default risk. It obtains a reasonable valuation with three key estimates - the level of retirement benefits, the growth rate of post-retirement benefits and the discount rate....
The paper talks about commons-based information production that refers to useful information that is produced as a result of events or motivations that are distinct from production that is consequent on reactions to market prices and/or managerial commands. It explains with an example that if musician A is a composer...
A data warehouse consists of a set of materialized views defined over a number of data source, collects copies of data from remote, distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous data sources into a central repository to enable analysis and mining of the integrated information. Data Warehousing and On-Line Analytical Processing OLAP are...
In many circumstances, it is unsatisfactory to measure portfolio performance using time-weighted rates of return. There are well known problems with performance attribution analysis using time-weighted returns in a multi-interval context, and it is impossible to measure the contribution of a portfolio's manager to the wealth of an individual investor....
