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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"business group"”.
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Family Ownership and its impact on diversified Indian Business Group Ownership
… 2005-2006, we find that family ownership affects group affiliated firms more positively than standalone firms. Group affiliated firms underperform initially as compared to standalone firms but after certain threshold of family ownership their performance becomes better than standalone firms. …
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Developing a unified manufacturing and sourcing strategy in a multi-business unit engineering firm
… This thesis develops a methodology to aid multi-business unit firms in formulating outsourcing strategies on the corporate or business group level. It offers frameworks for identifying non-core manufacturing capabilities and make versus buy decision making. In addition, it identifies critical …
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Supply chain packaging : packaging for optimal inter-region distribution center operations and damage prevention
… [1] conglomerate with a diverse portfolio of businesses covering Aerospace, Automation and Controls, Specialty Materials and Transportation. Honeywell's Automation and Controls Solutions (ACS) business is the second largest business group with $9.4 billion in sales in 2005. This business group …
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A study on capital structure and corporate governance
… and product market performance by examining business group affiliated firms. The firms that are affiliated to a business group is not only affected by their own financial position, but also affected by the position of business groups which the firms belong to. The empirical investigation …
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Essays in Banking and International Corporate Governance
… essay, we find that cash ratios for chaebol (business group) firms are lower than for non-chaebol firms for the 1991--2000 period. We do however find that there is a shift in the degree of bank power over the last decade. After the financial crisis in 1997, the interest differential charged to …
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Essays on family business groups, corporate investments, and cash management
… finance. The first essay examines how the business group structures facilitate higher investment rates of group-affiliated firms relative to standalone firms in the face of supply shocks to external financing precipitated by the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. This study finds that access to …
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Controlling and Organizing the Network Structure of Korean Business Groups, 1997-2003
… within the network structure of Korean business groups, chaebols, for the family-based corporate ownership and control under environmental uncertainty. Research focuses on the groups' changing patterns of inter-firm network structures, the maneuvering strategy by utilizing relational …
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IT management in the aerospace industry
… decisions are made usually by IT executives or business executives, based on the information provided by Chief level executives and at least one other business group. Finally, the third major finding is that the Aerospace Industry gets above average returns from IT by being good at IT Business …
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Trust-based marketing on the Internet : design and implementation of algorithms for a GM customer advocacy site
… in order to survive on the Internet. The E-business group at MIT Sloan under the guidance of Prof. Urban is working on a website that applies trust techniques for GM. Automobile manufacturers, GM among them, have suffered from low trust levels from consumers. The purpose of this project is …
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Essays on Corporate Cash holdings and Business Groups
… corporate cash holdings in Korea, with its own business groups("chaebols"), and the impact of Asian financial crisis in 1997-1998. The first essay examines the effects of cash on performance from 1994 to 2006. It first shows that cash-rich firms are more likely to survive and the exit rate of …
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Cloud security and platform thinking : an analysis of Cisco Umbrella, a cloud-delivered enterprise security
Cisco's security business segment with over $2 billion in revenue in fiscal 2018, makes Cisco one of the largest enterprise security players in the market. It is also one of the fastest growing business segments for Cisco, with last five years' CAGR at 12%. While this growth rate is in line with …
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Análisis de los factores explicativos del éxito empresarial: una aplicación al sector de la denominación de origen calificada Rioja
… identification of the explanatory factors of the business results is one of the most attractive issues within the field of the strategic management. In this sense, there is an interesting empiric discussion between those who, from the Industrial Economics perspective, advocate the prominence of …
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Growth strategy for hybrid organizations : balancing economic, environmental, and social impacts
… the Hybrid Organization's Sustainability- Driven Business Model presented by Hoffman et a/ (in press, 2011), we can explore economic growth strategies for hybrids while identifying the tensions inherent to or amplified by the hybrid growth process. I built four case studies which identify thirteen …
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Organising Tataland, the modern nation : a history of development in post/colonial India
… draws on the history of philanthropy of the Tata Group, one of India’s leading global business group. In Part I of the thesis, the shifts in these imaginaries are mapped and explained; the history of organisation and management of development is presented in Part II; and the purposive organisation …
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A lightweight method for improving coordination in distributed, high-variability product companies
… levels. It targets the knowledge-transfer, business planning, and execution levels of material management while also addressing the behavioral and practical components of implementation. In doing so, the approach recognizes that uneven process maturity and uncertain external demands must be …
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Strategic responses of family firms to external disruption: Examining the role of family and dynamic capabilities with evidence from China
… identifying three distinct performance groups and thereby exploring the role of DCs and the family play in shaping differences between the groups. Based on the degree of recovery, the case firms are classified into fully recovered (G1), partially recovered (G2), and non-recovered (G3) …
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Firms and Territories in 4.0 Transformations: Evidence from Italian Technological Knowledge Intensive Business Services
… in particular technological knowledge-intensive business services, in 4.0 innovation activities is affected by the characteris-tics of the territory, regions, cities, or local production systems, in which they are located. The thesis consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 comprises a systematic …
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Pemberian pembiayaan mudharabah menurut Madzhab Hanafi: Studi pembiayaan mudharabah di Bank Muamalat Indonesia Cabang Kota Malang
… things that are consumptive, there are 3 (three) business group that is financed, namely cooperatives, individuals and corporations. While the analysis of the provision of financing, in branch Malang BMI using analysis of 5C +1 (Character, Capital, Capacity, Collateral, Capable, Condition of …
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An occupational survey of the business graduates of Lane High School, Charlottesville, Virginia: 1945-49
… of the study was to decide whether the present business curriculum of Lane High School, Charlottesville, Virginia, is adequately meeting the needs of its business students. In gathering the data for this study, the questionnaire method of research was used. A questionnaire, a letter, and a …
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Exploring ‘People’ as the key element in enterprise architecture implementation: A Critical Realist Perspective
… to change and supports the delivery of the business strategy (The Open Group Architecture Framework [TOGAF], 2009). However, for a number of reasons organisations still have difficulties establishing an effective EA (Raadt & Vliet, 2008; Gartner, 2009; and Janssen & Klievink, 2012, among …