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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Capital Goods"”.
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The lease - purchase phenomenon in the capital goods market.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1972
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Dynamic cycles of strategy, marketing and sales : a framework for capital goods industries
… in business to business, particularly with capital goods. The framework is based on the proposition that strategy, marketing and sales are cycles that happen with different durations. Strategy defines perspective, plans, position and patterns. It encompasses several marketing cycles where …
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Perspectives on the management of customer/supplier relationships in a business-to-business, capital goods environment.
… of a multinational company whose products are capital goods and consumables sold through business-to-business channels, this work addresses a noticeable fall in sales over recent years from the perspective of a practitioner-researcher. A participative approach to the research work was chosen by …
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From craft to flexibility: linkages and industrial governance systems in the development of a capital-goods industry in Mendoza, Argentina, 1895-1990
This thesis examines the development of a capital goods industry in Mendoza Argentina through an analysis of linkages and industrial governance systems. Linkages are material, informational, and financial flows among firms. Industrial governance systems are the social practices that cement …
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Practical complexities arising from input tax adjustments under the VAT Act
… issues arising from the application of the Capital Goods Scheme, and to analyse the implications arising from the lack of formal guidance. This research attempts to identify ways to overcome the issues arising from the implementation of the Scheme, and recommend improvements to the current …
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China's Presence in Developing Countries' Technology Basket: The Case of Furniture Manufacturing in Kenya
China has emerged as the leading source of capital goods for Kenya and Sub Saharan Africa as a whole, which before the noughties depended largely on advanced countries for capital goods. Thus, there is a disruption of the pattern of technology transfer to Sub Saharan Africa including Kenya. A …
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FISCAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS ON SMALL BUSINESS DECISIONS: An Application to the Kansas Income Tax Initiative
… small business owner decisions to invest in capital goods or hire workers due to Kansas House Bill 2117. This paper isolates the effects of the elimination of non-wage business income to business growth decisions. I found that elimination of tax rates for small businesses in 2013 increased …
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Essays on Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation
… assets. On the other hand, the maturity for capital goods lending, which limits a debtor's ability to transform assets financed, decreases with industry-level market demand for fixed assets. These findings are consistent with the Myers and Rajan (1998)'s prediction that, when liquidation …
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Economic relations between Brazil and Argentina: The shift in the eighties
… the mid-eighties and the assertion that trade in capital goods would guarantee the attainment of economic integration in the La Plata Basin. Intra-industry trade is still a rather small part of manufacturing trade and still a smaller part of overall trade between Brazil and Argentina, …
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Identification of the Critical Success Factors for Export-Oriented Agro-Processing Projects in Ethiopia
… Capacity for Raw Material, State of the Art Capital Goods, Quality Intermediate Goods, Available Skilled Labour, Availability of Credit, Large Processing Capacity, Favourable Foreign Trade Policy, Sufficient Working Capital, Advanced Market Intelligence on Trends, Competition, and Industry. …
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Essays on optimal economic growth
… which has fixed coefficients but many types of capital goods.
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Installed base information: Ensuring customer value and profitability after the sale
This thesis explores the business benefits for capital goods manufacturers in maintaining systematic records for individual products in their installed base. The research results show that such installed base information can be essential for a company interested in improving both the value their …
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Assessing a successful global business culture: European expatriates in the U.S. and the impact of their cultural training for international organizations
… greatly facilitates the flow of information, capital, goods and people. One of the manifestations is the increasing number of expatriates (commonly referenced as 'expats') dispatched overseas on international assignments. To mitigate the risk of expatriate failure, international organizations …
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Foreign assistance and economic development: the case of Taiwan
… exchange required to import intermediate and capital goods to support production. This structural disequilibrium can keep underdeveloped countries from proceeding toward industrialization which is often their main hope for increasing income.</p> <p>Fortunately, advanced countries have been …
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Jewish past and colonial Shanghai: trade, treaty-port, and transitive modernity
… Shanghai by examining 1) the Jewish networks of capital, goods, and market; 2) Jewish elites and their political activism; 3) transnational legal and political status of Sephardic Jewish elites in Shanghai and 4) Jewish cultural heritage in Shanghai. A central argument of this work is that as an …
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International regulation of official trade finance : competition and collusion in export credits and foreign aid
… or "give" foreign aid to finance the exports of capital goods, military equipment and agricultural products sought by buyer states. Buyer states are generally developing countries, which have limited ability to pay in cash or self finance these imports.
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An empirical investigation into the UK profit rate, 1949-2003
… of the rate of profit to fall in contemporary capitalism through empirical research on the UK economy. Mergers and acquisitions, government expenditure, capital goods export, capital goods imports (EU as the main partner of the UK trade) emerged from this investigation as influenced by the rate …
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Savings, investment and economic growth in Namibia
… This can be achieved through waiving duty on capital goods and offering tax incentives to investors in strategic sectors of the economy.
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Impact of International Trade on Coffee Industry: The Case of Kagera Region in North-West Tanzania
… the financial constraints to import the capital goods in coffee industry at the fair exchange rate. The strategies would then include economic diversification and the adoption of the indigenous technology and innovation by applying the natural pesticides and organic fertilizer like dung …
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Military expenditure and economic development, the case of Greece: 1952-1987
… long term dependency on imported technology and capital goods which will not be reduced by arms production. Foreign military transfers have been instrumental in forging these dependency links and keeping the country open to foreign capital to operate under free and unregulated conditions. The …
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