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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Business failures"”.
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Ontleding van kleinsakemislukkings
About 75 percent of all small businesses started each year are predicted to fail within the first 5 years. It is important to identify and recognise the major reasons and pitfalls that often lead to small business failure to assure the survival of the small business. The small business owner will …
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Study of business failure in the hospitality industry from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives
Business failures in the hospitality industry were examined in this study from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives. In the micro-level study, this paper developed a discriminant model for predicting bankruptcy of hospitality firms (lodging and restaurant firms). This model achieved a …
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Giving up the Ghost: Death in the Depression
… is to list its characteristics. Generally, business activity is far below normal, there is great pessimism among business and consumers alike, there is a sharp curtailment of production, little capital investment, contraction of credit, falling prices, mass unemployment, and a high rate of …
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British perceptions of the Balkan Slavs: Professional and popular categorizations before 1914
… and prejudices had an effect on military and business decision-making more often than on religious positions which remained largely unaltered. In many cases, representations of the Balkans were at least partly accurate, although grave misunderstandings and misinterpretations also occurred. …
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Fashion Innovation System Policy: Probing regional innovation systems to optimise digital manufacturing for fashion designers
… Enterprises (DFEs) to mitigate the risk of business failures. However, the prevalence of innovation resistance necessitates political interventions to optimise the implementation of ADM practices. Governmentsponsored fashion RIS initiatives in Seoul and London are actively working to …
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Predicting business failure in the hospitality industry: an application of logit model
The phenomenon of business failure has attracted research interest in finance literature partly because of its impact on the U.S economy. Whereas an impressive body of knowledge has been accumulated on this subject thus far, the hospitality literature has lacked empirical studies that seek to …
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The Impact of Authentic Leadership and Ethical Organizational Culture on Auditor Behavior
… in several high-profile financial scandals and business failures. Many blamed external auditors of these companies' financial statements for failing to detect and/or report errors and fraud that led to the failures. Leaders within major audit firms have been urged to foster more ethical firm …
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A re-examination of two major bankruptcy prediction models
… evidence presented in this study indicates that business failures have increased since 1980 and financial leverage follows an upward trend from the 1970s to the 1980s. The following four hypotheses associated with the original Altman and Ohlson models are developed: (1) the Type-I Error …
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Business relationships : a cross-culture management investigation in the UAE construction industry
… patterns and communication styles, different business goals and logic, all of which may be difficult to deal with or interpret. In the present scenario, effective cross-cultural management has become essential for the success of business relationships. The existing literature is mainly …
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The winding up of companies by the court : an analysis of the relevant provisions of the Companies Act, 1995
… around the world, there has been an increase in business failures which have resulted in record annual numbers of liquidations of companies and bankruptcies. Because of this, it has become more important than ever before that students of law, commerce and accountancy who in the future are to take …
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Aspects of organisational decline and crisis: the multi-dimensional crisis in the United Kibbutz Movement
… pace of organisational retrenchments and business failures alike have invoked academic as well as managerial interest. The rarity of either cross-sectional and specifically longitudinal data reflecting the dynamics of crisis and decline have resulted in proliferous theoretical treatises …
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Reducing the redundancy of financial ratios and assessing the stability of financial patterns
The purpose of this study was to examine the financial patterns of Australian industrial firms along the lines of Pinches et al.’s (1973; 1975) study. The financial ratios used in prior Australian corporate failure studies were used to derive a reduced set of factors that was predictive of …