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Understanding corporate social responsibility of the corporate sector to Sustainable Development Goal for energy in Nepal

Bista, Raghu - 2018

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7: energy for all is a global agenda to Nepal, where about 85 percent rural population have not access to energy for lighting and about 40 percent of the bottom 20 percent extreme poor access energy. The government has been initiating alternative energy to...

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Japanese Manufacturers in Australia: Analysing Their Quality Evaluation and Employee Participation

Bayari, Celal - 2010

The characteristics of Japanese transnational automotive and electronic manufacturers in their overseas operations form a major topic of analysis. This paper discusses the data from Japanese electronics and automotive (auto and auto parts) manufacturers that were subjects of the author’s...

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Capital Investment Decisions of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: The Case of Digos City

Relativo, Jona Princess; Sumayang, Mildred; Diasana, … - 2016

This paper examined the capital investment decisions of micro, small and medium enterprises, with the aim of assessing its current levels and its conditions across industries in Digos City. Questionnaires measuring the four phases of capital investment decisions were administered to a stratified...

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Cumulative Innovation, Sampling and the Hold-Up Problem

Pollock, Rufus - 2006

With cumulative innovation and imperfect information about the value of innovations, intellectual property rights can result in hold-up and therefore it may be better not to have them. Extending the basic cumulative innovation model to include `sampling' by second-stage firms, we find that the...

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Innovation and Imitation with and without Intellectual Property Rights

Pollock, Rufus - 2006

An extensive empirical literature indicates that returns from innovation are appropriated primarily via mechanisms other than formal intellectual property rights -- and that `imitation' is itself a costly activity. However most theory assumes the pure nonrivalry of `ideas' with its implication...

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Organizational structure and high-performance work practices

Eriksson, Tor; Ortega, Jaime - 2024

Using firm-level data from Denmark, a country characterized by a high level of adoption of “high-performance work practices” (HPWPs), we document a large percentage of firms with limited adoption and large differences depending on the firms’ organizational structures. To explain these...

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Companies’ market penetration and activity patterns in european market

Neamtu, Liviu; Neamtu, Adina Claudia - 2007

The strategy type at the company level has an impact upon the selection and implementation of the strategy at the business level. The international strategy at the company level is different from the international strategy at the business level through the diversification extension degree (both...

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Measuring Readiness for Entrepreneurship: An Information Tool Proposal

Coduras, Alicia; Saiz-Alvarez, José Manuel; Ruiz, Jesús - 2016

A profound review of the literature on entrepreneurship reveals that it does not exist aspecific information tool to … measure the individuals’ readiness for entrepreneurship. The purpose of this research has been building such kind of … instrument to estimate the individuals’ readiness for entrepreneurship. Its design takes into consideration the inclusion of the …

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The Moderating Effect of Environmental Turbulence in the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Management and Firm Performance

Pratono, Aluisius Hery; Mahmood, Rosli - 2014

Contingency theory points out the adaptive management is crucial point to sustainable firm performance. This research aims to determine the relative importance of a set of variables comprising the four entrepreneurial management variables, i.e. strategic orientation, organization culture,...

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Business Excellence through the Theory of Accountability

Aithal, Sreeramana - 2021

Background/Purpose: Theory of Accountability or Theory A is argued to be the best tool for enhancing organizational performance in the 21st century due to the relevance of its motivational and controlling factors with changing competitive environment of organizational business. Objective: To...

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