The purpose of this paper is to outline a framework, whereby academic and small to medium sized enterprise owner-managers can interact and learn more from each other in an environment of mutual collaboration. This paper outlines a methodology, which identifies a set of critical performance...

This paper studies the impact of market opening to FIIs, on Indian stock market behavior. India announced it's policy regarding the opening of stock market to FIIs for investement in equity and related instruments on 14-th September 1992. Using stock market data related to Bombay Stock Exchange,...

Middle East has always been the region having the first priority in the cynosure of USA because of two reasons. The first and the most important reason is petroleum. 61.9 % of petroleum reserves on the Earth are located in Middle East region. Therefore, meeting the petroleum need of the USA and...

This article investigates the impact of financial sources on firm growth in Brazil. In particular underlying objectives of this paper is to answer the questions, does external or internal and formal or informal financial sources affects differently on firm performance?, and does financial...

One the structural sections in control process model is monitoring and measuring of the processes. Under this model, the process manager can control processes, that means, systematically monitor and assess he efficiency of processes and pursue a correction action in the case he find out...

In entering a new market, firms face demand uncertainty. We depart from the usual Hotelling duopoly model with sequential entry. We allow firms to locate outside of the city and assume that market conditions are common knowledge. We then introduce one-sided demand uncertainty. We find that...

This paper examines the probability of receiving job-related formal training and the returns to on-the-job training in Europe using a sample containing personal, educational, and firm characteristics. The results show that certain occupations, such as managers and professionals, receive more...