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Aarenstrup, Jesper, and Adam Lagerström. "Evaluating Business Intelligence Investments : is comparative evaluation enough?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-355171.
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The purpose of the study is to evaluate and describe how three large companies with Swedish presence have coped with the investment appraisal ex-ante a purchase of a BI system. Further, the paper strives to investigate how the companies evaluated the perceived benefits, which are of intangible nature and hence difficult to quantify.
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Sweeting, Barbara. "Evaluation of business networks in the AusIndustry business network program." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Business, 2005. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00001516/.
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Researchers have found that inter-firm collaboration, that is, co-operative business networks, can provide a competitive advantage that would not be possible independently for small sized firms. Work has been done by some governments, for example, Danish, Norwegian, New Zealand, American and Japanese, in the area of policy and practice of business networks because they have realised the importance of business networking and have encouraged collaboration of small firms by assisting in the facilitation of networks. The Australian government established a Business Network Program which ran for four years and several studies were completed on various aspects of the program during that period. However, there had been no particular research that examined the success or other outcomes of these networks, thus providing the basis for the research question addressed in this research: How and why did the business networks developed in the AusIndustry Business Networks Program, succeed or not succeed? Further, questions relating to how and why these outcomes may have occurred or how they may have been measured in the Australian government facilitated program were also unanswered. A review of the extant literature in this area established the theoretical foundations upon which this research is based and made possible the development of a model comprising three constructs or research issues that would address the research question: RI 1: How and why is network success evaluated? RI 2: How and why do the internal and external environments affect the outcomes of the network? RI 3: How does facilitation affect the network? In order to address these research issues and the research question, a protocol was developed and case study interviews with the lead business of sixteen networks participating in the AusIndustry Business Network Program were carried out. The resultant data was compared for each of the research issues through a qualitative methodology from which conclusions and answers to the research question and issues were derived. The results of this research showed that network members evaluated their own outcomes often using multiple measures, both qualitative and quantitative, with the most common criteria being whether the network continued or discontinued. Moreover, it was concluded in this research that successful networks usually had a single goal or purpose for joining a network which they ultimately achieved. In contrast the unsuccessful networks generally joined the network with multiple goals and which were not all achieved, thus contributing to their lack of success. This result was not evident in the literature reviewed in chapter 2. Additionally, the findings showed that high levels of trust, commitment and reciprocity were essential elements in the success of business networks. More importantly this study found that whilst all successful networks had these elements, some of the non successful ones also reported high levels of trust, commitment and reciprocity. Thus it appeared in this study that whilst these elements are important for network success, they do not alone ensure that success, further, it was noted that for any network that reported a lack of any one of these elements, non success was more likely. In relation to this finding was the discovery that in these networks formal contracts between the network members increased the levels of commitment and reciprocity and thus increased the chances of success. When external environmental factors were examined in relation to their impact on network success, it was found that whilst all had some impact on their business generally, competition was noted as having the highest impact and government or legal issues the lowest impact. Finally, this research found that facilitation did not necessarily contribute to a network’s success but that possible a lack of appropriate facilitation style did contribute to the non-success of networks. However, it was clear that the small networks needed less facilitator guidance overall and that the larger networks definitely needed facilitation and guidance. Moreover, it was found that the type of facilitation at the various stages of the network process were more important to the likelihood of success, rather than the mere presence of a facilitator. Thus, the main contribution of this theory building research is to extend the general level of knowledge about business networks and provide new insights into network theory and the value of networks using an original application of existing knowledge. This knowledge can contribute to network education and training in business schools and can contribute to the development of future government policy and practice pertaining to network programs.
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Krause, Kylee. "An evaluation of training in business." Online version, 2004. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2004/2004krausek.pdf.
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Magocha, Keoneng Know. "Evaluation in business discourse / Keoneeng [i.e. Keoneng] K. Magocha." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4901.
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The aim of the thesis is to explore, from a linguistic perspective, the construction and
maintenance of interaction in documents in which directives are conveyed in business
communication correspondence, in order to input directly into the pedagogic practice in
written business communication. The focus is research into ways of scaffolding relationships
in documents for correspondence, an area that represents an important aspect of language use
in business communication practice.
The data for the study includes letters, memoranda and saving rams in which directives are
conveyed written by writers of English as a second language and following various channels
of communication. Two methods are used to extract the relevant data in which evaluative
meanings are conveyed. These are Wordsmith to extract evaluative and patterns and a
manual analysis to identify the evaluative structures of the texts.
The linguistic construal of interpersonal scaffolding is investigated drawing on the model of
APPRAISAL (Martin, 2000), which is located within the Hallidayan grammar as the
theoretical point of departure. The choice of language used in the texts is interrogated and
interpreted with reference to the theory. analysis focuses on the linguistic systems that
appropriately serve or construe the interactive function of language and addresses issues such
as kinds of semantic values that are conveyed, the patterns in which they are expressed and
their texture. The objective is not to make generalizations about how writers of documents
manage interaction and persuade their recipients to carry out the actions they desire. Rather
the aim is to develop a theoretical framework to explain the evaluative strategies that are
encoded in the texts and the implications of choosing amongst different strategies.
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The thesis therefore contributes a theoretically motivated and dynamic explanation of the
ways in which interaction is managed in the context of texts in which directives are
communicated especially amongst Batswana writing in the English language. From a
pedagogic perspective the explanations of managing interaction developed in the study
provide insights and resources for teachers of business communication writing to assist them
in modelling evaluative strategies in business correspondence writing and helping their
students to develop effective written communication strategies.Thesis (Ph.D. (English)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.
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Al-Humaidan, Fahad Mohammed. "Evaluation and development models for business processes." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1947.
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Most organisations are working hard to improve their performance and to achieve competitive advantage over their rivals. They may accomplish these ambitions through carrying out their business processes more effectively. Hence it is important to consider such processes and look for ways in which they can be improved. Any organisational business process encompasses several elements that interact and collaborate with each other to achieve the required objectives. These elements can be classified into hard aspects, which deal with tangible issues related to the software system or the technology in general, and soft aspects, which deal with issues related to the human part of the business process. If the business process needs to be analysed and redesigned to improve its performance, it is important to use a suitable approach or intervention that takes into account all of these elements. This thesis proposes an approach to investigate organisational business processes by considering both soft and hard aspects. The approach, Soft Workflow Modelling (SWfM), is developed as a result of reviewing several workflow products and models using a developed workflow perspectives framework which involves several perspectives covering the soft and hard aspects of the workflow system. The SWfM approach models the organisational business process as a workflow system by handling the various perspectives of the workflow perspectives framework. This approach combines the Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) with the Unified Modelling Language (UML), as a standard modelling language of the object-oriented paradigm. The basic framework adopted is that of SSM with the inclusion of UML diagrams and techniques to deal with the aspects that SSM cannot handle. The approach also supports SSM by providing a developed tool to assist in constructing a conceptual model which is considered as the basis to model the workflow system. A case study is developed for illustrative purposes.
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Ayad, Sarah. "Business Process Models Quality : evaluation and improvement." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013CNAM0922/document.
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La problématique scientifique abordée correspond à la modélisation et à l'amélioration des processus métiers. Ce problème est d'un intérêt croissant pour les entreprises qui prennent conscience de l'impact indéniable que peuvent avoir une meilleure compréhension et une meilleure gestion des processus métiers (PM) sur l'efficacité, la cohérence et la transparence de leurs activités. Le travail envisagé dans le cadre de la thèse vise à proposer une méthode et un outil pour mesurer et améliorer la qualité des modèles de processus métier. L’originalité de l’approche est qu’elle vise non seulement la qualité syntaxique mais aussi la qualité sémantique et pragmatique en s’appuyant notamment sur les connaissances du domaineIn recent years the problems related to modeling and improving business processes have been of growing interest. Indeed, companies are realizing the undeniable impact of a better understanding and management of business processes (BP) on the effectiveness, consistency, and transparency of their business operations. BP modeling aims at a better understanding of processes, allowing deciders to achieve strategic goals of the company. However, inexperienced systems analysts often lack domain knowledge leading and this affects the quality of models they produce.Our approach targets the problem related to business process modeling quality by proposing an approach encompassing methods and tools for business process (BP) models quality measurement and improvement. We propose to support this modeling effort with an approach that uses domain knowledge to improve the semantic quality of BP models.The main contribution of this thesis is fourfold:1. Exploiting the IS domain knowledge: A business process metamodel is identified.Semantics are added to the metamodel by the mean of OCL constraints.2. Exploiting the application domain knowledge. It relies on domain ontologies. Alignment between the concepts of both metamodels is defined and illustrated.3. Designing of the guided quality process encompassing methods and techniques to evaluate and improve the business process models. Our process propose many quality constraints and metrics in order to evaluat the quality of the models and finally the process propose relevant recommendations for improvement.4. Development of a software prototype “BPM-Quality”. Our prototype implements all theabove mentioned artifacts and proposes a workflow enabling its users to evaluate andimprove CMs efficiently and effectively.We conducted a survey to validate the selection of the quality constraints through a first experience and also conducted a second experiment to evaluate the efficacy and efficiency of our overall approach and proposed improvements
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Howard, Stephen Eric. "Business Development for Bankers: An Evaluation Study." Scholarly Commons, 1990. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3189.
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The evaluation of commercial training was examined through the study of a specific training program for bankers. Two functional groups within a 20 billion dollar U.S. bank participated in the study and both were split into experimental (trained) and control (untrained) groups.
Four levels of evaluation were implemented in this study; they include: (1) trainee opinions about the training, (2) change in trainee behavior during training, (3) changes in trainee on-the-job behavior. and (4) organizational results or bottom-line measurements. Some measurements used existing performance tracking programs within the bank, while others were developed by the experimenter and implemented by bank personnel.
For Levels 1 through 3, the trend of the results is in the direction of improved selling knowledge and performance, but the changes are modest. Level 4 results. on the other hand, show a significant increase in performance among the trained group when compared to the untrained group. Evaluation studies using the four-level method are feasible to conduct in banking environments and most procedures used in this study can and should be replicated in other environments.
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Sirdeshmukh, Deepak. "Consumer evaluation of brand extensions." Connect to resource, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1262987833.
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Phan, Anh T. "Evaluation of business and management training for private businesses in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam." Thesis, Bucks New University, 2008. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.714452.
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Villagomez, Garcia Ivan, and der Meulen Steffan Van. "The evaluation of business models by venture capitalists." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-19384.
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The purpose of this study is to identify the role a business model plays for Venture Capitalists (VCs) when analysing a new venture proposal for funding. The primary data for this research was collected through six qualitative interviews conducted during a two month period. Furthermore, the gathered data was evaluated in accordance with the information found in current literature which describes de term "business model" as well as specific criteria for it. The findings from this research demonstrate that the perception of the role of a business model is strongly similar among the VCs whom were interviewed. They all argued that a business model plays a secondary role in the evaluation process and see it as part of the business plan. At the same time, this research could could pinpoint the fact that no specific instrument including explicit evaluation criteria is currently being implemented by the VCs in question in order to evaluate a business model. Notwithstanding this study cannot be generalized since the pool of applicants included only six Investment Manages working in Venture Capital Funds in Sweden and Mexico. At the same, even though the geographical differences exist, the evaluation process resulted quite similar amongst them. Evidence from this study has demostrated that the current ambiguity of the meaning of the term "business model" is the most frequent perceived challenge to the evaluation of these. Therefore, our interest to shed more light into the topic was encouraged.
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Lundin, Catherine. "A different way of doing business, an evaluation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0019/MQ49192.pdf.
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Al-Tuwarijari, Jamal Mustafa. "Generic business process modelling framework for quantitative evaluation." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1931.
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Business processes are the backbone of organisations used to automate and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their services and prod- ucts. The rapid growth of the Internet and other Web based technologies has sparked competition between organisations in attempting to provide a faster, cheaper and smarter environment for customers. In response to these requirements, organisations are examining how their business processes may be evaluated so as to improve business performance. This thesis proposes a generic framework to expand the applicability of various quantitative evaluation to a large class of business processes. The framework introduces a novel engineering methodology that defines a modelling formalism to represent business processes that can be solved for a set of performance and optimisation algorithms. The methodology allows various types of algorithms used in model-based business pro- cess improvement and optimisation to be plugged in a single modelling formalism. As a part of the framework, a generic modelling formalism (MWF-wR) is developed to represent business processes so as to allow quantitative evaluation and to select the parameters for the associated performance evaluation and optimisation. The generic framework is designed and implemented by developing soft- ware support tools using Java as object oriented programming language combining three main modules: (i) a business process specification mod- ule to define the components of the business process model, (ii) a stochas- tic Petri net module to map the business process model to a stochastic Petri net, and (iii) an algorithms module to solve the models for various performance optimisation objectives. Furthermore, a literature survey of different aspects of business processes including modelling and analy- sis techniques provides an overview of the current state of research and highlights gaps in business process modelling and performance analy- sis. Finally, experiments are introduced to investigate the validity of the presented approach.
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Eriksson, Oskar. "Evaluation of BizTalk360 : From a business value perspective." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Programvara och system, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-153637.
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This thesis was requested by Solution Xperts in Linköping and is an evaluation of the software BizTalk360, which is a add-on to the very well known application integration software BizTalk Server. One problem that many face with BizTalk Server is how to handle the post-implementation operations of their implementation. Referring to such factors as monitoring and security for instance. The built-in tools are very limited and lack a variety of functions that are very desirable. BizTalk360 tries to solve this. In order to evaluate the value that BizTalk360 brings to its users, two factors were taken into account. How important are the functions provided for the company? And how difficult would these be to implement independently?. After testing the BizTalk360 core functions and features and also implementing a representative function of BizTalk360, everything learnt were presented to group of experienced BizTalk Sever developers in order to receive estimates regarding their individual importance and theoretical implementation time. The importance of the functions proved quite minor. The platform offers a lot of smart solutions to various problems but these wont see enough use to justify the cost. The difficulty of implementing a similar platform were also estimated to be quite low, only time consuming. Estimated to take (through average) 653 man hours.
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Chicheke, Aaron. "An impact evaluation of a retail business skills training programme." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10266.
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Includes bibliographical references.The South African retail industry is growing significantly and increasingly becoming an important contributor to the country's economic growth. The industry grew by 5.9 percent in 2011, in terms of sales, compared to 3.6 percent decline in 2009. According to figures provided by the Statistics South Africa (StatsSA), the industry contributed six percent to the entire South African economy and 23 percent towards total employment in the country. Despite the growing significance of the industry in the South African economy, the industry is still marred with chronic challenges of poor education and skills shortages. Major players in the industry indicated that these challenges are the main impediments to potential higher growth.
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Sheu, Chwen. "The design and evaluation of manufacturing focus alternatives." Connect to resource, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1262881969.
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Kovács, Jozef. "Overenie business modelu predaja nového produktu Lifelink." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-112934.
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The objective of this thesis is to verify the business model of a new product introduced by a newly founded company named Lifelink s.r.o. and its product of the same name. The thesis is conceived as a recommendation for the investor whether to accept or decline an investment in the project. The paper should also serve as an estimate of the profitability of the project and its value to the investor. The thesis is based on utilization of theoretical and practical knowledge gained during my studies and its application in introduction of a new product. The thesis is divided into four parts, where the first part represents the introduction containing the description, objectives and methods of the thesis. The second part contains the methodology which is going to be used in the third part. This part represents the application of the methodoly presented earlier and its core is a feasibility study expended by the specifics of a business model evaluation. The conclusion contains the recommendation for the investor based on calculated net present value and economic value of the project which incorporate all findings from the third part of the thesis.
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Allerup, Jonas. "Evaluation of the Swedish Trade Council’s Business Opportunity Projects." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-155107.
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of the Business Opportunity Projects (BOPs) that the Swedish Trade Council uses when promoting export for small enterprises. The Business Opportunity Projects have the same type of setup for all offices where the Swedish Trade Council is established and are subsidized by 60 percent from the government. A dataset on firms’ financial state on a ten year basis is used and survey interviews conducted in 2005/06 and 2007/08. From this data three types of methods are used; a calculations on expected values of return; a panel data model and a probit model.The results show that the expected return of one project is around 250 000 SEK and if the project is successful the average return is around 1 000 000 SEK. The governmental return is around 22 times the invested money. The probability of creating business volume directly or indirectly is around 45 percent. It is also shown that the projects have an impact on the export turnover of the participating firms. The effect comes after two years and it increases until four years after the BOP. The interpretation of the exact effect should be made with caution due to estimation issues. The result also indicates that the BOP generates around 1.5 employees on averages.The results show that the participating firms do not have advantage being larger, or being from the middle region of Sweden nor in a specific branch in order to have a successful project. Firms from north part of Sweden that have a slightly smaller chance of having a successful project, if the project is made in Western European offices, the firms have a higher probability to succeed compared to other offices.
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Lipaj, Dmitrij. "Evaluation of influence of information systems on business performance." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2014~D_20140127_100154-93678.
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Information systems are used to increase business performance to gain competitive advantage. Information systems affect both financial measures and internal processes, thus providing different benefits to organisation.
The main objective of the thesis is to create a model for evaluation of business performance through implementation of information systems.
The thesis consists of three parts. In the theoretical part definition on what are information systems, enterprise resource planning systems and how do they correspond to each other were given. Explanation on how information systems can increase business performance and what business processes and indicators might be affected were analyzed. Integrated information system that refers to enterprise resource planning systems group is presented in the more detailed way. In the second part description was provided on how model was created for evaluation of influence of information systems on business performance. Information how the hierarchical organizational structure and selected performance indicators might be used for evaluation the general business performance index. In the practical model approbation part the results on the evaluation of information Systems, implemented in different branch offices in different countries of company providing engineering consultancy services , was made. Research results analysis has revealed that information systems have a great effect on business performance and can enhance performance... [to full text]Informacinės sistemos naudojamos siekiant pagerinti įmonės veiklos rodiklius ir įgyti konkurencinį pranašumą. Informacinės sistemos turi poveikį tiek finansiniams, tiek ir vidaus procesų rodikliams, taip suteikdamos naudą įmonei. Baigiamojo darbo pagrindinis tikslas yra sukurti informacinių sistemų poveikio įmonių veiklai vertinimo modelį. Baigiamąjį magistro darbą sudaro trys dalys. Teorinėje studijoje pateikiami informacinės sistemos, įmonių vidinių išteklių planavimo sistemų apibrėžimai ir aiškinama sąsaja tarp šių dviejų reikšmių. Analizuojama, kaip diegiamos informacinės sistemos didina verslo efektyvumą, gerina rodiklius, paveikia verslo procesus. Antroje dalyje nagrinėjamas informacinių sistemų poveikio įmonių veiklai vertinimo modelis. Išanalizuota, kaip esama hierarchinė organizacijos struktūra ir pasirinkti veiklos rodikliai gali būti panaudoti bendro verslo veiklos rodikliui paskaičiuoti. Praktinėje dalyje buvo atliktas modelio aprobavimas inžinierines konsultacines paslaugas teikiančioje įmonės filialuose, įsteigtuose skirtingose šalyse. Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad informacinės sistemos turi didelį poveikį verslo rodikliams ir gali padidinti įmonės efektyvumą. Baigiamojo darbo pabaigoje pateiktos išvados ir pasiūlymai. Baigiamojo darbo apimtis – 79 p. teksto be priedų, 24 pav., 22 lent., 82 bibliografiniai šaltiniai.
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Seiliūtė, Jovita. "Evaluation of social responsibility consolidation potential in business organizations." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130327_100515-64064.
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Due to the growing importance of social responsibility in business processes, various topics of corporate social responsibility are being versatile and exhaustively examined and discussed in the scientific literature, but still there is a lack of research and discussions on implementation, consolidation and development measures of corporate social responsibility, in particular the employees of organization as a key one. Considering the relevance of the consolidation and development of corporate social responsibility and basing on the analysis of concepts of social responsibility and theories of its consolidation measures as well as analysis of employees’ evaluations, in the dissertation the implementation state of corporate social responsibility in Lithuania is revealed and, by comparing it with the state of play in Belarus, new opportunities for the consolidation of corporate social responsibility are disclosed. Additionally, during the search of new consolidation measures of corporate social responsibility, differences of business and public sector social responsibility are presented, at the same time appraising the role of the public sector in consolidation and development processes of corporate social responsibility, and the issues of evaluation of organization’s assumed level of social responsibility and of impact of socially responsible behaviour on organization itself and its interests groups are analyzed. As well the dissertation delivers the disclosure of potential... [to full text]Nors didėjant socialinės atsakomybės svarbai verslo procesuose verslo socialinės atsakomybės tematika mokslinėje literatūroje įvairiapusiai ir išsamiai tiriama ir aptariama, tačiau pasigendama tyrimų ir diskusijų apie verslo socialinės atsakomybės įgyvendinimo, įtvirtinimo ir plėtros priemones, o ypač apie organizacijų darbuotojus, kaip pagrindinį verslo socialinės atsakomybės įgyvendinimo ir įtvirtinimo įrankį. Atsižvelgiant į verslo socialinės atsakomybės įtvirtinimo ir plėtros klausimų aktualumą, disertacijoje, remiantis socialinės atsakomybės koncepcijų ir įtvirtinimo priemonių teorijų bei darbuotojų vertinimų analizėmis, atskleidžiama verslo socialinės atsakomybės įgyvendinimo būklė Lietuvoje ir, lyginant su jos būkle Baltarusijoje, nustatomos socialinės atsakomybės įtvirtinimo verslo organizacijose galimybės. Be to, naujų verslo socialinės atsakomybės įtvirtinimo priemonių paieškos metu, išsamiai aptariami verslo ir viešojo sektoriaus socialinės atsakomybės skirtumai, įvertinant viešojo sektoriaus vaidmenį verslo socialinės atsakomybės įtvirtinime ir plėtroje, ir analizuojama organizacijos prisiimto socialinės atsakomybės lygio ir socialiai atsakingos elgsenos poveikio pačiai organizacijai ir jos interesų grupėms vertinimo problematika. Taip pat disertacijoje atskleidžiamas darbuotojų savybių įtakos verslo socialinės atsakomybės įtvirtinimui potencialas, pasiūlant pilotinį darbuotojų savybių įtakos socialinės atsakomybės įtvirtinimui verslo organizacijoje modelį. Due... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Rosén, Nils. "Evaluation methods for procurement of business critical software systems." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-3091.
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The purpose of this thesis is to explore what software evaluation methods are currently available that can assist organizations and companies in procuring a software solution for some particular task or purpose for a specific type of business. The thesis is based on a real-world scenario where a company, Volvo Technology Corporation (VTEC), is in the process of selecting a new intellectual property management system for their patent department. For them to make an informed decision as to which system to choose, an evaluation of market alternatives needs to be done. First, a set of software evaluation methods and techniques are chosen for further evaluation. An organizational study, by means of interviews where questions are based on the ISO 9126-1 Software quality model, is then conducted, eliciting user opinions about the current system and what improvements a future system should have. The candidate methods are then evaluated based on the results from the organizational study and other pertinent factors in order to reach a conclusion as to which method is best suited for this selection problem. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is deemed the best choice.
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Fernihough, Andrew Mark. "An integrated technique for the evaluation of business strategies." Thesis, University of Bath, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362302.
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Darko-Mamphey, Dorothy. "Legislating business rescue in South Africa: a critical evaluation." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1015244.
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Social, political and economic changes in post-apartheid South Africa have generated the need for a major reform of the legislative regime governing companies in order to ensure that that regime is capable of addressing the challenges faced in domestic and international circles, and to also meet the demands of globalisation. 1 These developments include the change in culture from company liquidations to commercial renewal which caused the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to embark on drastic reforms of South Africa’s business rescue mechanism as part of the broader company law reform project. 2 The domestic and global environments have indeed changed drastically with corporate structures showing significant evolution.
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Ekelund, Fredrik. "Business Process Integration: An Evaluation of How to Connect Business Processes to the Integration Layer." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-96217.
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The fact that information becomes more and more vital in organisations today is well known. Companies exchange large amount of data each day and therefore their administrating functions must be dynamic and flexible. As the applications tend to be more complex and increase in number as the company grows the requirements for integration of the different applications becomes even more important. The purpose of this master thesis work is to evaluate how Vetco Aibel shall enable business process integration in their IT organisation as well as recommend how to continue their integration work. The outcome of this work is a discussion of how Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 can be used for business process integration in Vetco Aibel and a set of recommendations for how Vecto Aibel shall continue their future integration work. The work was initiated with a background study of integration concepts and technologies. Then, interviews with different Vetco Aibel employees were done to get an overview of their current IT solution. The proof of concept work was then initiated and finally a brief analysis of Vetco Aibel’s SPF-project was done. The master thesis work was carried out from July 2006 to November 2006.
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Smith, Walter P. "An experimental evaluation of the strategic use of managerial incentive." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1261245431.
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Swanepoel, Leon D. "Framework for identifying systemic environmental factors causing underperformance in business processes." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85792.
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Thesis (MEng)-- Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Performance management systems are integral to many organisations. On all levels of management such performance measurements are used to drive a desired behaviour and business units, departments, as well as individuals are rewarded for meeting or exceeding set targets. In large silo-structured organisations, divisions are particularly focused on their own targets and responsibilities. This may result in a diminished view of the effect their strategies and processes may have on overall stakeholder value. These divisions execute strategies to enhance the achievement of their own goal. The execution of these strategies sometimes hampers other divisions in meeting their goals. The net effect of this hampering may result in reduced stakeholder value. A mechanism is needed through which organisational divisions can evaluate the systemic environment, in order to identify hampering processes. The case may be that their processes are hampering other divisions, or that their processes as such are being hampered. The main objective of this research study was to develop such a mechanism. This mechanism emerged through a framework which can be used during investigations of hampering processes. Such investigation is conducted by following six predefined steps to guide the investigator in identifying the hampering factors. This framework was developed by combining primarily three disciplines: Systems thinking, Performance evaluation and Supplier perceived value. The evaluation framework was validated through three case studies. In all of the cases the framework delivered the expected result. It is thus concluded that organisations can apply the framework to help identify systemic environmental factors that may hamper business processes.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Prestasiebestuurstelsels maak ʼn integrale deel uit van die meeste organisasies. Prestasiebeoordeling word op alle vlakke van bestuur ingespan om die verlangde gedrag aan te moedig. Sake-eenhede, departemente en individue word vergoed indien hulle die gestelde doelwitte haal of oorskry. In groot silo-gedrewe organisasies is afdelings grootliks gefokus op hulle eie verantwoordelikhede en om hulle eie doelwitte te bereik. Gevolglik verminder dit soms die uitwerking wat die uitkomste van hulle strategieë en prosesse het op die belanghebbendes van die organisasie. Hierdie afdelings voer dus strategieë uit om hulle eie doelwitte te behaal. Soms verhinder hierdie strategieë ander afdelings om hulle doelwitte te bereik. Die basiese effek hiervan kan wees dat minder waarde aan die belanghebbendes deurgegee word. ‘n Organisasie het dus ʼn meganisme nodig om die sistemiese omgewing mee te evalueer en sodoende prosesse te identifiseer wat belemmer is of wat belemmering kan veroorsaak. Die hoofdoel van hierdie navorsingstudie was om so ʼn meganisme te ontwikkel. Hierdie meganisme het na vore gekom in ʼn raamwerk wat tydens ondersoeke gebruik kan word om belemmering te identifiseer. Die raamwerk is ontwikkel deur hoofsaaklik drie dissiplines in gedagte te hou: Sistemiese Benadering, Prestasie-beoordeling en die Begrip van verskafferwaarde. Die raamwerk is aan die hand van drie gevallestudies getoets en in al drie gevalle het die raamwerk die verwagte resultate opgelewer. Die gevolgtrekking is dus gemaak dat organisasies wel die raamwerk kan toegepas kan om die sistemiese omgewing te evalueer en sodoende die belemmering van prosesse op mikrovlak uit te wys.
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Larsson, Eva B. "Evaluation methods among corporate travel managers /." Online version of thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11582.
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Cherubim, Claudio Luiz. "Business To Business (B2B) service processes: an approach to customer complaint process evaluation towards service excellence." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/5735.
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Paulsen, Zenley Olivia. "An evaluation of the impact of the business in society programme on business students at the University of Stellenbosch Business School." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96203.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.The global business environment has undergone a systemic transformation that has influenced the way we see and do business. Central to this transformation is the rising importance of environmental sustainability, social responsibility and sound corporate governance. Given these changes, leaders require training and education about building a values-based, ethical business platform in order to operate effectively. Therefore, it is imperative that business people are appropriately educated in the art of handling matters of this nature. The primary aim of this research study is to evaluate the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) education on future business leaders by comparing the expected outcomes of a specific educational curriculum with its actual real-world outcomes. The University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) introduced a module called Business in Society in 2011. This duration of the module is one full semester. At the time, the course outline stated that the aim of the programme was to improve the decision-making ability of students about ESG issues in the business context. Participants who were busy studying or had graduated from the programme were expected, in reasonable measure, to be able to formulate appropriate responses to the challenges and opportunities inherent in matters of the environment, sustainability and governance. The primary aim of this study was therefore to review and assess both current student’s and graduates’ envisioned and practical application of theory, their environmental and social awareness levels and any significant changes in ethical outlook and values, or lack thereof. The secondary aim of the study was to assess the quality of the educational intervention itself. In order to review the impact of the programme on participants, the study focused on the subjective experience of the students, their perceptions of the programme and their subsequent behaviour in the workplace as an outcome. The research involved a two-tier approach. The first tier entailed the deployment of surveys to the randomly selected graduates of the programme. The second tier involved interviews with randomly selected respondents in the first round of surveys. These research participants were current and former students of the programme. The expectation was to find that these future business leaders were properly equipped and educated to make the right decisions concerning sustainability issues and ethical dilemmas. Based on the results of the survey, it was evident that the majority of students had come away with a positive experience of the Business in Society Programme, and that the course had had a positive impact on their lives both professionally and personally. The results of the interview analysis offered a holistic review of the experience of students in relation to their learning, the essential learnings and practical application, and the extent of the impact on their personal and professional lives. Recurrent themes which came to light in the analysis were the increase in awareness and the absence of practical engagement. There was a general discontent with the delivery of the course, in particular its lack of practical emphasis, and fragmentation in delivery. Recommendations to improve the course are supplied and may be utilised and implemented at the discretion of the Business School.
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Lebeloane, Virginia Mmule. "An evaluation of business rescue plans based on business rescue principles and guidelines to determine leading indicators of business rescue outcomes." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59850.
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The low success rate of business rescue in South Africa has been presented as the research problem in the study. This is because since the inception of Chapter 6 of the Companies Act, No. 78 of 2008 in 2011, there has been an average success rate of nine percent. This is fairly low compared to countries like the United Kingdom and the United States of America whose regimes inspired the development this Chapter 6. As a result, the study focuses on evaluating business rescue plans of past experiences based on the principles and guidelines stated in Chapter 6. The archival research compares what companies that came out of business rescue successfully did as opposed to those that were not successful. This assessment focused on finding any unique leading indicators of business rescue; and if compliance to the principles and guidelines of Chapter 6 is crucial for the outcome of business rescue and if there is material difference between business rescue plans of listed companies and unlisted companies. The objective of this study is to identify what makes strong and effective business rescue plans and what pitfalls need to be avoided when developing future business rescue plans.
In order to meet this objective, the study was guided by the stakeholder theory since the South African business rescue regime is creditor friendly and aim to observe the rights of affected parties in business rescue. Anchoring the study on this theory then guided the literature review to focus on the Act as the main source of literature to establish the structure of a typical business rescue plan, to know who the affected parties are, their ranking and why the principles and guidelines stated in Chapter 6 are important. Further literature review focused on articles from local and international from law; change management; and business management journals.
The research methodology applied was qualitative in nature so that the reasons for rescue success and failure can be explored. The findings were further validated by interviewing business rescue practitioners. The research findings indicated that all business rescue plans are uniform in structure but there are common strategies that are applied in the business rescue practice to restore companies back to being going concerns. Compliance with Chapter 6 is ideal but not crucial for success and that listed companies provide the BRPs with more data to work with. This then results in more detailed plans that are effective. One of the findings that was of significance is that business rescue outcome is also affected by the conduct of the professionals in the practice.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Giaglis, George M. "Dynamic process modelling for business engineering and information systems evaluation." Thesis, Brunel University, 1999. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5258.
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This research is concerned with the pre-implementation evaluation of investments in Information Systems (IS). IS evaluation is important as organisations need to assess the financial justifiability of business change proposals that include (but usually are not limited to) the introduction of IS applications. More specifically, this research addresses the problem of benefits assessment within IS evaluation. We contend that benefits assessment should not be performed at the level of the IS application, as most extant evaluation methods advocate. Instead, to study the dynamics and the interactions of the IS applications with their surrounding environment, we propose to adopt the business process as the analytic lens of evaluation and to assess the impacts of IS on organisational, rather than on technical, performance indicators. Drawing on these propositions, this research investigates the potential of dynamic process modelling (via discrete-event simulation) as a facilitator of IS evaluation. We argue that, in order to be effective evaluation tools, business process models should be able to explicitly incorporate the effects of IS introduction on business performance, an issue that is found to be under-researched in previous literature. The above findings serve as the central theme for the development of a design theory of IS evaluation by simulation. The theory provides prescriptive elements that refer both to the design products of the evaluation and the design process by which these products can come into reality. The theory draws on a set of kernel theories from the business engineering domain and proposes a set of meta-requirements that should be satisfied by business process models, a meta-design structure that meets these requirements, and a design method that provides guidance in applying the theoretical propositions in practice. The design theory is developed and empirically tested by means of two real-life case studies. The first study is used to complement the findings of a literature review and to drive the development of the design theory's components, while the second study is employed to validate and further enhance the theory's propositions. The research results support the arguments for simulation-assisted IS evaluation and demonstrate the contribution of the design theory to the field.
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Brown, Damian Laurence Joseph. "The evaluation of new business development projects in commercial banks." Thesis, City University London, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336887.
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Feit, Tori L. "Customer satisfaction survey development and evaluation model for local business." Online version, 2002. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2002/2002feitt.pdf.
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Jean-Baptiste, Frédo. "Essays on the econometric evaluation of monetary business cycle models." Strasbourg, 2011. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/public/theses_doctorat/2011/JEAN-BAPTISTE_Fredo_2011.pdf.
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Cette thèse porte sur l’évaluation économétrique du modèle néo-keynésien. Ce modèle constitue à l’heure actuelle un cadre de référence pour l’étude de la politique monétaire, à la fois dans le milieu académique et dans les institutions ayant à leur charge la conduite de la politique monétaire. Cette thèse confronte le modèle néo-keynésien aux données américaines et européennes et cette confrontation s’organise autour de trois points principaux : la capacité du modèle à reproduire la persistance de l’inflation, à expliquer la source de la Grande Modération , c'est-à-dire la stabilité des données macroéconomiques observées depuis 1980 jusqu’à la récente crise financière, et enfin la capacité du modèle à expliquer la nature endogène (ou non) des changements de régime de politique monétaire. L’estimation du modèle conduit à trois résultats principaux. Tout d’abord, le modèle reproduit parfaitement la persistance de l’inflation dès lors que la cible d’inflation de la banque centrale fait partie des variables expliquant l’inflation dans la courbe de Phillips néo-keynésienne. Ensuite, le modèle reproduit la Grande Modération et montre que ses origines sont liées à une bonne conduite de politique monétaire et aussi à la diminution de la volatilité des chocs exogènes affectant l’économie. Enfin, les changements de régime de politique monétaire sont endogènes dans la Zone Euro, tandis que pour le cas américain, ils sont beaucoup plus liés aux périodes auxquelles un nouveau président de la Réserve change est désigné, dans le cas américainThis thesis focuses on the econometric evaluation of the new-Keynesian model. This model is now a benchmark one for the analysis of monetary policy, both in academic and policy-making institutions. This dissertation fits the new-Keynesian model to U. S. And European data, and the model is evaluated on its ability in matching inflation persistence, in explaining the Great Moderation, i. E. The idea that economic data after 1980 until the Great Recession of 2008 are more stable than before. Finally, the estimated model is used to shed light on whether changes in U. S. And European monetary policy are endogenous or not. Our results are as follows. First, the estimated model matches inflation persistence as soon as the new-Keynesian Phillips curve includes the inflation target of the central bank as a variable that explains inflation. Second, the explanations for the Great Moderation are both an improved monetary policy and smaller variance of shocks that U. S. And European economy have experienced. Third, changes in European monetary policy appear to be endogenous, while changes in U. S. Monetary policy are closely associated with the dates at which Fed Chairmen change
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Handley, Sean M. "The Evaluation, Analysis, and Management of the Business Outsourcing Process." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1217602296.
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Danilovich, Natalia Nikolaevna. "Measuring Brand Equity : Methods of Evaluation and Effects on Business." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-10842.
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The purpose of the research is to explore what brand equity is, examine different approaches to brand evaluation and study the current situation on the high tech market. The subject of the research is the value of brand as measure of efficiency of company's performance.
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Hedén, Gustav. "Statistical evaluation model for future business opportunities of SAAB AB." Thesis, KTH, Matematisk statistik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-223242.
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This thesis conducts a statistical analysis of the won and lost sell data for SAAB AB. The method of choice is logistic regression analysis against believed and confirmed statistically significant dependable data. The sell data is split by different products so that each product gets an individual evaluation. The outcome of the regression analysis is then implemented on non-ventured markets for a specific product. This provide an implied probability of a successful sale of a product to different countries. These implied probabilities form a ranking of different countries for a specific product. The ranking tables are then supposed to be used as a statistical input for SAAB employees to use when evaluating potential future market gains.Den här uppsatsen genomför en statistisk analys av SAAB ABs vunna och förlorade affärer från dess försäljningsdata. Metoden som valdes är logistisk regressionsanalys och den är implementerad mot statistiskt signifikant och beroende data. Försäljningsdatan är uppdelad på olika produktområden så att varje produkt får sin egen analys. Resultatet av regressionsanalysen är sedan implementerad på olika länder som SAAB inte har försökt att sälja den undersökta produkten till. Detta ger sannolikheten för att genomföra en lyckad försäljning av en viss produkt till ett land. Dessa sannolikheter bildar sedan en ranking för de olika länderna för en specifik produkt. Rankingtabellerna är tänkta att användas som statistiskt underlag för SAABs anställda när de utvärderar potentiella framtida affärer.
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Hassan, Ibne. "Impact of business evaluation process on mergers and acquisitions outcome." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2013. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/impact-of-business-evaluation-process-on-mergers-and-acquisitions-outcome(a816b0a5-4cee-4fa3-a4b5-c9c196e229c9).html.
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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) have been on the rise since last three decades and have attracted considerable attention from the research community. Conclusion drawn by some of the studies are that such transactions do not result in better performance or that they erode acquiring firm‘s shareholder value and produce highly volatile market returns. A number of studies have analyzed reasons for such inefficiencies and have pointed out several factors. However, very little attention has been given to business evaluation process as an influencing factor. This study investigates that how the processes involved in the evaluation of a target firm influence the outcome of the M&As? The research objective requires insight of the situations accruing at the time of happening of a particular event by interacting with those involved in the process. Considering the exploratory nature of the research question, the study adopts a comparative Case Study methodology to investigate the impact of business evaluation on the performance of M&As. The findings reveal that processes related to business evaluation have a significant impact on the outcome of the Merger and Acquisition (M&A) transactions. Sounder, controlled and inter linked processes can ensure better chances of their success. Further, the boundaries of the business evaluation processes, for the sake of M&A transactions, need to be elaborated to make performance assessment as its integral part. This would help in shaping the performance of the transactions by taking remedial steps during their implementation. The study complements earlier studies and provides a holistic view on the factors influencing performance of such transactions. Hence, outcome of the study would bring clarity in understanding the relationship and behavior between different components and related factors of business evaluation and M&A performance.
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Abdal-Fadeel, Marwa Magdy G. "Destination management systems : towards a holistic effectiveness evaluation." Thesis, University of Hull, 2011. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:4715.
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This study aims to enhance the understanding of destination management system (DMS) effectiveness and its evaluation. Upon review of the literature, it was established that DMS effectiveness and its evaluation has not yet been researched adequately. Informed by an interpretive approach, this study contributes to research particularly by investigating what constitutes effectiveness and explores the aspects (factors and relationships) that need to be considered in a holistic DMS effectiveness evaluation. Based on a qualitative case study strategy, this study adopts a comprehensive approach that considers multiple stakeholder groups� perspectives. The research evidence is collected through a case-study of the Egyptian DMS experience (the Touregypt project). The Touregypt project gives insights to the understanding of three DMS cases that have not been researched before in DMS literature: first, an actual DMS application in a developing country; second, a public and private sector partnership experience; and third, a failed DMS experience (the system has failed in the course of this research).Prompted by the interpretive approach, this study tried to explore DMS effectiveness based on the perspectives, attitudes and experiences of the multiple stakeholder groups (Hesse-Biber and Leavy 2010). Accordingly, the empirical data was collected through a multi-method approach that includes interviews, observation, archival document analysis (including Touregypt forum analysis), and website analysis. Data has been analyzed guided by discourse analysis, complemented with the general inductive approach of Miles and Huberman (1994). Following an interpretive theory-building strategy, the analyzed data has been further interpreted in the light of prior theories of DMS and information systems research, particularly the Delone and MacLean IS effectiveness theory (1992, 2003, and 2004).The main contribution of this study to knowledge is a theory based model that enhances the understanding of DMS effectiveness evaluation. The suggested model identifies the aspects (factors and relationships) that need to be considered when evaluating the effectiveness of DMS. Also, the results of this study give insights to the understanding of DMS effectiveness by shedding light on what constitutes effectiveness and the possible relationship between such constructs.
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Lee, Seung Yun. "The effect of scarcity on product evaluation." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107801.
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Marketers often use scarcity to influence consumers, with announcements such as "limited quantities," "until stocks last," "few tickets left for this event," "limited time offer," or "24 hour sale." Past research indicates that scarcity often has a positive effect on product evaluation. In essay 1, I show that the positive effect of scarcity can be attenuated when consumers' persuasion knowledge is activated. Specifically, I identify four factors – salience of persuasion knowledge (study 1), frequency of exposure to scarcity (study 2), disconfirmation of scarcity (study 3), and decision reversibility (study 4) – that activate persuasion knowledge and hence moderate the effect of scarcity on product evaluation. I also show that these effects are mediated by inferences about falsity of the scarcity claim. In summary, my results suggest that scarcity claims benefit products only when persuasion knowledge is not salient, frequency of exposure to scarcity is low, disconfirmation of scarcity is absent, or decision reversibility is high. In essay 2, I build on reactance theory to argue that scarcity can reduce consumers' perceived flexibility and hence create feelings of inconvenience. Based on this argument, I show that the positive effect of scarcity on product evaluation is moderated by time pressure (study 1), time precision (study 2), store flexibility (study 3), and incentive flexibility (study 4). I also show that these moderating effects are driven by perceived inconvenience associated with scarcity. In summary, my results suggest that scarcity claims benefit products only when time pressure is low, time precision is low, store flexibility is high, or incentive flexibility is high.Les marketeurs utilisent souvent la rareté pour influencer les consommateurs, avec des annonces du type « quantités limitées, » « jusqu'à épuisement des stocks, » « seulement quelques billets restant pour cet événement, » « offre à durée limitée, » ou « vente 24 heures. » Des recherches précédentes indiquent que la rareté a souvent un effet positif sur l'évaluation de produit. Dans l'essai 1, je démontre que l'effet positif de la rareté peut être atténué quand les connaissances des consommateurs relatives aux techniques de persuasion sont activées. Plus spécifiquement, j'identifie quatre facteurs – la saillance des connaissances relatives aux techniques de persuasion (étude 1), la fréquence d'exposition à la rareté (étude 2), la réfutation de la rareté (étude 3), et la réversibilité de la décision (étude 4) – qui activent les connaissances relatives aux techniques de persuasion et qui modèrent donc l'effet de la rareté sur l'évaluation de produit. Je démontre également que ces effets sont médiés par les inférences faites par les consommateurs quand à la véracité de l'affirmation de rareté. En résumé, mes résultats suggèrent que les affirmations de rareté sont profitables pour un produit uniquement lorsque les connaissances relatives aux techniques de persuasion ne sont pas saillantes, la fréquence d'exposition à la rareté est faible, la réfutation de la rareté est absente, et la réversibilité de la décision est élevée. Dans l'essai 2, je me base sur la théorie de la réactance pour affirmer que la rareté peut réduire la flexibilité perçue par les consommateurs et donc créer un sentiment de désagrément. En me basant sur cette affirmation, je démontre que l'effet positif de la rareté sur l'évaluation de produit est modéré par une contrainte temporelle (étude 1), une précision temporelle (étude 2), la flexibilité du magasin (étude 3), et la flexibilité des incitatifs (étude 4). Je démontre également que ces effets modérateurs sont occasionnés par la perception de désagrément qui est associée à la rareté. En résumé, mes résultats suggèrent que les affirmations de rareté sont profitable pour un produits uniquement lorsque la contrainte temporelle est faible, la précision temporelle est faible, la flexibilité du magasin est élevée, ou la flexibilité des incitatifs est élevée.
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Silva, Solano Luis Ernesto. "Business Intelligence: un balance para su implementación." InnovaG, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/131503.
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Business Intelligence (BI) is the set of methodologies, practices and capacities focused on information management that allows companies to make better decisions. The practice of BI is developed through IT systems and an in-depth knowledge of the company’s “core business”. This article seeks to make an assessment of the difficulties, costs and benefits that are taken into account before acquiring a BI tool.Among the difficulties is the adaptation of complex information, the deficient data entry, the privacy problems. Related to costs, the costs of licensing and acquiring a tool are developed, as well as those derived from the adaptation of personnel to these solutions. Likewise, regarding the main benefits, the control of the activities, the improvement in the productivity of the collaborators, the technological support to reach the objectives, the promotion of a data-oriented culture and the improvement in the decision-making are exposed. In this way, it shows the challenge that companies in the information age, where knowledge has become a source of competitive advantage for the market and in which people are prepared to achieve success.El Business Intelligence (BI) es el conjunto de metodologías, prácticas y capacidades enfocadas al manejo de información que permite tomar mejores decisiones a las empresas. La práctica del BI se logra desarrollar a través de sistemas de tecnologías de la información y de un conocimiento profundo del core business de la empresa. El presente artículo busca hacer una evaluación de las dificultades, costos y beneficios que se toman en cuenta antes de adquirir una herramienta de BI.Entre las dificultades se plantea la adaptación de información compleja, el deficiente ingreso de datos, los problemas de privacidad. Respecto a los costos, se identifica los costos de licenciamiento y adquisición de una herramienta, así como los derivados de la adaptación del personal a estas soluciones. Asimismo, en cuanto a los principales beneficios se expone el control de las actividades, la mejora en la productividad de los colaboradores, el soporte tecnológico para alcanzar los objetivos, el impulsar una cultura orientada a datos y la mejora en la toma de decisiones. De esta manera, se muestra el desafío que enfrentan las empresas en la era de la información, donde el conocimiento se ha convertido en una fuente de ventaja competitiva para destacar en el mercado y que solo aquellas que estén adecuadamente preparadas podrán lograr resultados superiores.
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Prinsloo, Jacobus Lukas. "Evaluation of strategy execution practices in a case study organisation." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96188.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.In recent times, especially after the world economic crisis of 2009, strategy formulation and implementation have become more important than ever. However, the most important action resulting in success is the proper execution of the strategy. Bossidy and Charan (2002:57) argued that the most important reason for strategy failure is due to poor strategy execution. Management teams spend a lot of time formulating excellent strategies, but rarely spend time on strategising the execution of their strategy – this practice gap was the departure point for this study. The research study aimed to explore the perceptions of employees in a case organisation regarding the success or failure of strategy execution practices and their contribution towards the strategy. The author explored reasons for strategy failure, strategy drivers, remedies for strategy failure as well as some models and tools available to manage strategy. The author conducted a case study on an organisation by establishing execution failure or success by testing the perceptions of respondents with various statements concerning the most frequently identified strategy drivers. The author concludes with the case study results and recommendations to the case organisation.
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Borggrén-Franck, Emma. "Evaluation of a business idea Analysis of the business chance of success regarding market demand and profitability." Thesis, KTH, Tillämpad maskinteknik (KTH Södertälje), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-118755.
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Paul, Eliccel. "La performance des entreprises et l’impact de la culture nationale : Une illustration dans le contexte socio-économique haïtien." Thesis, Antilles, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016ANTI0110/document.
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Cette étude s’inscrit dans le courant culturaliste de la performance des entreprises. Elle est motivée par le constat que Haïti fait face à de sérieux problèmes économiques dont les solutions ne sont pas évidentes avec l’application des théories orthodoxes. En gardant à l’esprit que la performance des entreprises joue un rôle capital dans la croissance de l’économie globale, l’étude cherche à déterminer l’impact des facteurs socioculturels haïtiens sur la performance des entreprises. Malgré de nombreux travaux sur les déterminants de la performance, la littérature consacrée à la question ne s’est intéressée que très peu au rôle des facteurs socioculturels. En outre il n’existe presque pas de travaux, à notre connaissance, qui ont étudié le mode opératoire des facteurs socioculturels, à savoir les canaux par lesquels transitent leurs effets sur la performance des entreprises. Ce travail a pour objectif de contribuer à combler ces vides. L’étude propose un modèle de performance intégrant à la fois des facteurs traditionnels de production, des facteurs du management, du marketing et des traits socioculturels haïtiens. Les facteurs traditionnels de production comme l’accumulation du capital, le capital humain, l’innovation, et les facteurs liés au marketing et au management tels que l’orientation client, le comportement managérial de l’entrepreneur, le rendement au travail, l’engagement organisationnel et le comportement de citoyenneté organisationnelle sont considérés comme des variables médiatrices à travers lesquelles les facteurs socioculturels agissent sur la performance de l’entreprise. Les variables socioculturelles étudiées sont celles qui traduisent la « philosophie du passage », une croyance que la vie se résume à un instant très bref sur la terre et serait en conséquence futile (Logossah, 2007). Dix variables engendrées par cette vision du monde ont été étudiées, il s’agit de : la primauté de l’au-delà, l’auto-retrait du monde, le niveau d’aspiration, la vie dans l’instant présent, le fatalisme, la gestion du temps, l’aversion pour la concurrence, le conformisme, l’entraide mutuelle et le népotisme. Les données ont été recueillies auprès de 207 entreprises haïtiennes choisies de manière aléatoire dans le secteur privé. Deux méthodes de collecte de données ont été utilisées. Le questionnaire a été acheminé par courriel aux entreprises disposant d’adresse de courrier électronique (taux de réponse : 13,25%). Les entreprises qui ne disposent pas d’adresse de courrier électronique ont fait l’objet d’une collecte de données par interview directe, réalisée par une équipe d’enquêteurs recrutés à cette fin. L’enquête a révélé d’abord que la performance de l’entreprise a obtenu une moyenne de 3.92 et un écart-type de 0.25. Les variables intermédiaires (accumulation du capital, capital humain, innovation, orientation client, comportement managérial de l’entrepreneur, rendement au travail, engagement organisationnel, comportement de citoyenneté organisationnelle) obtiennent des scores variant entre 2.00 et 5.00, une moyenne entre 3.44 et 3.67 et un écart-type allant de 0.25 à 0.45. Les variables indépendantes (primauté de l’au-delà, auto-retrait du monde, niveau d’aspiration, vie dans l’instant présent, fatalisme, gestion du temps, aversion pour la concurrence, conformisme, entraide mutuelle, népotisme) obtiennent des scores variant entre 1.00 et 5.00, une moyenne allant de 2.77 à 4.00 et un écart-type variant entre 0.27 et 0.81. Les résultats de l’analyse économétrique révèlent que le fatalisme a des impacts positifs sur la performance de l’entreprise. Ces effets positifs sont médiatisés partiellement par l’accumulation du capital, l’innovation, le comportement managérial de l’entrepreneur, le rendement au travail et l’orientation client. Ces résultats signifient que non seulement le fatalisme se révèle favorable à la performance de l’entreprise, mais il passe par plusieurs canauxThis study is part of business performance based on the culturalist approch. It is motivated by the finding that Haïti is facing serious economic problems whose solutions are not obvious to the application of orthodox theories. Keeping in mind that business performance plays a critical role in the growth of the global economy, the study aims to determine the impact of haïtian socio-cultural factors on business performance.Despite numerous studies on the determinants of business performance, the literature on the issue has focused little on the role of sociocultural factors. In addition, there is a lack of researchers, to our knowledge, who studied the procedure of sociocultural factors, namely the channels through which pass their effects on performance. This study contributes to fill these voids. It proposes a model of performance incorporating both traditional production factors, management, marketing and sociocultural traits of Haïti. The traditional factors of production such as accumulation of capital, human capital, innovation, and factors related to marketing and management such as customer orientation, managerial behavior, job performance, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior are considered as mediating variables through which the haitian cultural factors affect the company's performance. The sociocultural variables studied are those that reflect the "philosophy of the passage," a belief that life comes down to a very short time on earth and would be futile (Logossah, 2007). Ten variables generated by this worldview have been studied : the primacy of the beyond, self-withdrawal from the world, aspiration level, life in the present moment, fatalism, time management, competition avoidance, conformity, mutual aid and nepotism. Data were collected from 207 haitian businesses selected randomly in the private sector. Two data collection methods were used. The questionnaire was emailed to undertakings having email address (response rate : 13.25%). Companies that do not have email address have been collecting data by direct interview, conducted by a team of investigators recruited for this purpose.The survey revealed that the company's performance earned an average of 3.92 and a standard deviation of 0.25. Intermediate variables (accumulation capital, human capital, innovation, customer orientation, managerial behavior, job performance, organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behavior) obtain scores ranging between 2.00 and 5.00, an average of 3.44 and 3.67 and a standard deviation ranging from 0.25 to 0.45. The independent variables (primacy of the beyond, self-withdrawal from the world, aspiration level, life in the present moment, fatalism, time management, aversion to competition, conformity, mutual aid, nepotism) obtain scores ranging between 1.00 and 5.00, an average ranging from 2.77 to 4.00 and a standard deviation ranging from 0.27 to 0.81. The results of the econometric analysis show that fatalism has positive impact on business performance. These positive effects were partially mediated by capital accumulation, innovation, managerial behavior of the entrepreneur, job performance and customer focus. These results mean that not only fatalism is subsequently favorable to performance company, but through different channels. Likewise, mutual aid helps strengthen organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior at the enterprise level. However, the primacy of the beyond, self-withdrawal from the world, the level of aspiration, time management, aversion to competition and conformity are presented as debilitating factors for the company performance. Nepotism is not really any disability for company performance or work performance. Living in the present moment does not constitute a problem for company performance. However, it prevents the company to undertake innovation projects
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Arubayi, Odamaro Damis Feyisayo. "An evaluation study of technoserve's small business training probramme in Swaziland." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6432.
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Cao, Teresa Yanhong. "Evaluation of the China's Entry into the WTO." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-1377.
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Background: After 15 years of negotiations and diplomatic struggle, China was finally given the formal approval to join the World Trade Organization as the 143rd member. China has been driving for years to join the WTO since that is a crucial part of its plan to reform its economy and to build the economic modernization.
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to gain a general knowledge of China’s economic development, analysis advantages and disadvantages associated with China’s WTO membership as well as to answer the questions addressed.
Methodology: This thesis is based on qualitative method, and the information is gathered through the secondary data. Plenty of statistical data is involved in this research, especially economical information, such as market share, rate of economic growth and percentage of foreign investment.
Key findings: China's entry into the World Trade Organization is a historic step in the country's process of reform, and it marks a new phase in China's opening up to the outside world. It will encourage China to move in the direction of meeting the demands of the Chinese people for openness, modernization, and healthy development of the national economy. Moreover, it will also contribute to other countries’ economic social, scientific, intellectual, and political life.
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Boshoff, Jacques. "An evaluation of the information-processing approach of knowledge management." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53260.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study involves research of secondary data in the field of knowledge management. It investigates the different perspectives of how knowledge can be managed. The complexity of knowledge requires different approaches for different organisations in a variety of industries. The complexity of this field has resulted in a number of acceptable as well as unacceptable knowledge management approaches. In the study the two predominant conflicting perspectives of knowledge management is discussed. The information-processing perspective suggests that knowledge can be effectively managed through the use of information technology. The emphasis is on the capabilities of information technology with little reference to the human and cultural issues. The opposing knowledgecentric perspective emphasises that a knowledge initiative requires fundamental change that affects the strategy, structure, culture and processes within an organisation. The goal is to create an environment that is conducive to knowledge creation and sharing. In the study these contrasting perspectives are investigated. Analysis of the main points of contention provides insight into faulty assumptions that affect the credibility of an approach. The first primary area of dispute relates to the understanding of knowledge and information. According to the information processing approach knowledge and information are similar. Therefore knowledge can be managed with information processing tools. Advocates of the knowledge-centric approach disagree with this assumption. They believe that knowledge sharing and creation are subject to human interaction and creativity, and not technological systems. A clear definition and description of knowledge and information is provided. It is apparent from this discussion that there is a vast difference between information and knowledge. It is therefore false to suggest that knowledge and information can be managed with information management tools. The analysis of the factors that limit the capabilities of information management tools to provide knowledge management solutions indicates that technology merely plays an enabling role in knowledge management. Humans play the fundamental role in creating new knowledge and sharing existing knowledge. The information-processing perspective is therefore flawed, for knowledge and information cannot be equated and therefore information-processing tools cannot be used to manage knowledge.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie gebruik sekondêre data in die veld van kennisbestuur. Verskillende perspektiewe of benaderings tot kennisbestuur word ondersoek. Die kompleksiteit van kennis noodsaak dat verskillende benaderings vir verskillende organisasies gevolg moet word. Die resultaat is dat daar 'n verskeidenheid van aanvaarbare sowel as onaanvaarbare benaderings tot kennisbestuur is. In hierdie studie word die twee primêre teenoorgestelde perspektiewe van kennisbestuur bespreek. Die inligtingsverwerkingsbenadering se standpunt is dat kennis effektief bestuur kan word deur die gebruik van inligtingstegnologie. Die vermoëns van inligtingstegnologie word beklemtoon terwyl min aandag aan kulturele en menslike aspekte betee word. Die opponerende kennis-georiënteerde benadering beklemtoon dat 'n kennisbestuursinisiatief fundamentele veranderinge in die strategie, struktuur, kultuur en besigheidsprosesse van 'n organisasie vereis. Die doel is om 'n omgewing daar te stel waarin die skep en deel van kennis vrylik kan geskied. In die studie word die kontrasterende perspektiewe van kennisbestuur ondersoek. 'n Analise van die hoof konflikareas verskaf insig in foutiewe afleidings wat gemaak word. Foutiewe afleidings bevraagteken die kredietwaardigheid van 'n benadering. Die eerste primêre area van konflik kan toegeskryf word aan verskillende interpretasies van kennis en inligting. Volgens die inligtingsverwerkingsbenadering is kennis en inligting dieselfde. Kennis kan dus effektief bestuur word deur tegnologie wat geskik is vir die bestuur van inligting. Die kennisgeoriënteerde benadering beskou hierdie afleiding as foutief. Ondersteuners van hierdie benadering is van mening dat die deel en skep van kennis afhanklik is van menslike interaksie en kreatiwiteit, nie tegnologiese stelsels nie. 'n Duidelike definisie en beskrywing van kennis en inligting word voorgelê. Dit is duidelik uit hierdie bespreking dat daar 'n definitiewe verskil bestaan tussen inligting en kennis. Die aaname dat kennis en inligting deur dieselfde tegnologie bestuur kan word, is dus foutief. Die analise van die faktore wat die vermoëns van tegnologie beperk om kennisbestuursoplossings te verskaf, maak dit duidelik dat tegnologie nie kennisbestuursprobleme kan oplos nie. Mense speel die fundamentele rol in die skepping van nuwe kennis en die deel van bestaande kennis. Die inligtingsverwerkingsbenadering tot kennisbestuur sal dus nie optimale gebruik van kennisbronne verseker nie.
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Lundström, Fredrik, and Christofer Andersson. "Evaluating Emerging Markets : Swedish MNCs and their Evaluation Behavior." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7939.
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Country portfolio analysis, a commonly used tool among companies when evaluating potential target markets, only focus on potential sales instead of including cost and risk into the equation. However, some researchers today have become aware of the importance of taking these costs and risks into account. One of these researchers is Pankaj Ghemawat, who has developed a framework called CAGE which is supposed to be a complementary tool to the country portfolio analysis model. In this thesis we study if Swedish MNCs consider the factors suggested in the CAGE-framework when evaluating emerging markets. Furthermore, we suggest some adjustments to the evaluation process.
Data have been collected through a web-based questionnaire. The respondents were all headquarter managers in Swedish multinational corporations (MNCs). Our results show that the two most overlooked distances of the CAGE-framework are the cultural and the geographic distances. Hence, the two most considered were the economic and administrative distances. This is in partial accordance with Ghemawat’s theory, in which he states that the cultural distance is one of the two most overlooked distances. However, he presents administrative distance as the second most overlooked distance, which means that our thesis shows a somewhat different result than Ghemawat’s findings.
A company evaluating an entry into an emerging market needs to consider the CPA-model, but this is not enough. They also need to take other factors into account. These are previous as well as future growth of the market, predicted growth for the specific product or service in the market in question, and the competitive situation in the emerging market. A consideration of these factors gives the company a complete picture of a market regarding profit potential. Thereafter, this potential needs to be adjusted for the distances in the CAGE-framework.
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Marriage, Wayne Wilson. "An evaluation of the capital gains tax concessions for small business." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16326/.
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The small business Capital Gains Tax (CGT) concessions were introduced by the Federal Treasurer on 21 September 1999. The provisions are based on the landmark Review of Business Taxation. The Federal Government's intention was to remove impediments to efficient asset management, improve capital mobility, reduce complexity and compliance costs and generally, make Australia's CGT regime internationally competitive. Division 152 contains four separate small business concessions. In order to qualify for the four CGT concessions, the small business must satisfy stringent tests (basic conditions). It is possible that the small business will receive significant concessional treatment if these basic conditions are satisfied. Commentary by academics and tax practitioners indicate that the small business CGT concessions are excessively complex. There is concern that the provisions are not achieving their desired outcomes. This thesis involves a critical evaluation of Division 152 against the traditional criteria for a good tax system, using a legal research methodology designed by Wade. Within Wade's framework, the research includes a comparative analysis of the Australian and United Kingdom legislative provisions for small business CGT concessions. This comparison is undertaken with a view to highlighting strengths and weaknesses in the respective legislation to better meet the goals of equity, efficiency and simplicity. The culmination of this thesis will be the proposal of policy recommendations to Subdivision 152-A. This thesis states the law available as at 30 April 2006. In the light of this, an appendix is inserted to cover changes since this date.
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GUO, ZHAO-LING, and 郭兆玲. "The study of business preformance evaluation." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93633559152462887307.
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Poropat, Elvis. "Evaluation of business intelligence system usability." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/31907.
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Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Information Management, specialization in Information Systems and Technologies ManagementThe reality in businesses nowadays is the easy access to big amount of data that is being transferred into information. Reliable and useful information provide a competitive advantage in turbulent waters on all fields of business activities. Information is the foundation for all important business decisions. That means that on the informational foundation entire business structure is based. Information is needed at each stage of business operations, from enterprise’s entrance into the market, its growth, and throughout its every day strategic responses to the market’s demands. Due to the almost limitless processing power and storage capabilities, it is relatively easy to provide sufficient amount of information. Information is in many organizational structures often so accessible, that employees are confronted with saturation and overflow of it, on a daily basis. For that reason we should be aware, that it is extremely difficult to capture, access and process the right information at the right time. This can quickly become impossible, if we are about to prepare the information from billions of terabytes of data (The solution for limitless processing power, storage and RAM, 2011). For several years now, Business Intelligence (hereinafter: BI) products are, with their increased functionality, trying to help the day-to-day users and “super users” in organizations, to make the best decisions. These knowledge workers, as IT staff, power users, executives, functional managers and last but not least the occasional Information customers, such as business partners and data consumers, are for sure gaining all the needed information.