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Larionova, Ksenia. "Evaluation of Philips Group split through financial analysis tools." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-359276.
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This thesis aimed to examine methods used to evaluate multinational and diversified firms and then use these methods to study the Philips Group and its decision to spin-off of the Philips Lighting sector. Although numerous methods and parameters used to analyze firms already exist, they remain very limited for multinational and diversified firms such as Philips Group or General Electric. In this thesis, hypotheses were based on the theory of the firm and tested using analysis of leverage, profitability and efficiency ratios. This study shows the difficulty of analysing multinational diversified firms caused by a very limited availability of data set. Thus, despite of a great number of ratios described in the literature, only a small portion can be in fact computed using publicly available data. Hypotheses were based on the the paper developed by Chen and Guo (2005). First hypothesis, based on the analysis of capital constraint was attempted, secondly the pace and directions of individual sectors were analysed using profitability and efficiency ratios and thirdly the stock performance was observed. All of this in order to examine whether the motive of the split was to increase the stock prices. It was found that Philips Group nor its Lighting sector did not experience capital constraints, nevertheless an important degree of underperformance amidst analysed figures was found, which suggested that Philips Lighting division was not as good in creating value for shareholders as the HealthTech division was. Moreover, the decision of Philips Group to concentrate on its HealthTech business was positively accepted on stock markets confirming the third hypothesis.
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Ross, Jonathan. "A Closer Look at Firm--Group "Closeness"." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/accountancy_etds/1.
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Firm closeness or comparability is an important concept to investors. Knowing that two firms have been historically close and observing an information announcement by one of the firms gives the investor cues as to the future performance of the other firm. Furthermore, from a methodological point of view, researchers commonly control for firm--group closeness by using industrial classification schemes such as the SIC. To the extent that these schemes group dissimilar firms, the advantage of using these schemes is undermined. This paper more formally examines the comparability concept and develops two new measures of firm--group accounting closeness. Both measures are based on the co--movement of accounting fundamentals. I provide insight regarding the extent to which the SIC and GIC schemes group similar firms. Furthermore, a trading strategy utilizing information in the measures is developed and tested. Results indicate that, when industry closeness is high enough, abnormal returns in the range of 1-3% over a 1-3 day window can be earned around leader information announcement dates. Finally, I contribute to the contagion/information transfer literature, most notably Gleason et al. (2008), by showing that the contagion effects of accounting information announcements are increasing in the closeness of the industry.
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Hnyková, Petra. "Marketingová strategie firmy GROUPE SEB." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-11093.
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This thesis analyses marketing strategy of international company Groupe SEB that operates on the market of small domestic appliances and cookware. The company strategically manages portfolio of several international and regional brands. In my work I speak about the theoretical background of the international marketing principles and focus on the analysis of the marketing strategy of each brand with concrete examples and comparison.
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Luomaranta, Henri. "Essays in Firm Dynamics, Ownership and Aggregate Effects." Thesis, Toulouse 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOU10021/document.
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Le résumé en français n'a pas été communiqué par l'auteurAdministrative registers maintained by statistical offices on vastly heterogeneous firms have much untapped potential to reveal details on sources of productivity of firms and economies alike. It has been proposed that firm-level shocks can go a long way in explaining aggregate fluctuations. Based on novel monthly frequency data, idiosyncratic shocks are able to explain a sizable share of the Finnish economic fluctuations, providing support to the granular hypothesis. The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 has challenged the field of economic forecasting, and nowcasting has become an active field. This thesis shows that the information content of firm-level sales and truck traffic can be used for nowcasting GDP figures, by using a specific mixture of machine learning algorithms. The agency problem lies at the heart of much of economic theory. Based on a unique dataset linking owners, CEOs and firms, and exploiting plausibly exogenous variations in the separation of ownership and control, agency costs seem to be an important determinant of firm productivity. Furthermore, the effect appear strongest in medium-sized firms. Enterprise group structures might have important implications on the voluminous literature on firm size, as large share of SME employment can be attributed to affiliates of large business groups. Within firm variation suggests that enterprise group affiliation has heterogeneous impacts depending on size, having strong positive impact on productivity of small firms, and negative impact on their growth. In terms of aggregate job creation, it is found that the independent small firms have contributed the most. The results in this thesis underline the benefits of paying attention to samples encompassing the total population of firms. Researchers should continue to explore the potential of rich administrative data sources at statistical offices and strive to strengthen the ties with data producers
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Luo, Xueying. "Does Ownership Matter in Ethnic Media Firms? The Economic Goals of Media Firms for Ethnic Groups and Media Firms Owned by Ethnic Groups." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1352921143.
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Walker, Tanya L. M. "Symmetry-enhancing for a thin film equation." View thesis, 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/43978.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2008.A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Health and Science, School of Computing and Mathematics, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy - Science. Includes bibliographies.
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Wang, Barbara Xiaoyu. "Guanxi in western context : intra-firm group dynamics and expatriate adjustment." Thesis, City, University of London, 2019. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/21589/.
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Many scholars have addressed the important role that guanxi plays in the Chinese social-economic system. Guanxi is widely accepted in academia as an indigenous construct from China-deeply rooted in Chinese culture and reflected in the behaviour of Chinese people in both the social and institutional environment. During the growing globalisation of Chinese multinational companies, Chinese expatriates have increasingly taken up international assignments and inevitably carried Chinese guanxi to the host country. Research on guanxi in China has been intense. However, how the employees of Chinese multinational companies employ guanxi in the West, how Chinese expatriates develop and use guanxi in the host country, and how these behaviours affect their adjustment remain unclear. My dissertation contributes to this line of study in three ways. I first examined guanxi capitalism theoretically to highlight the features of China's economic system embedded deeply in its cultural-social-political environment and to explore how guanxi emerged, evolved, and subsequently dominated the economic system in China. Based on this analysis, I developed a conceptual framework of the "Guanxi capitalism structure" to illustrate the fundamental role of guanxi as the "invisible hand" in China. Next, I examined empirically how guanxi practice affects intra-firm multicultural group dynamics involving Chinese expatriates, host-country nationals, and host-country Chinese in Chinese multinationals. My study shows how expatriates actively practice guanxi with their homeland counterparts, but they do not do so with host-country nationals and host-country Chinese, and it explores the implications of these dynamics. Finally, I examined the impact of guanxi building on Chinese expatriate adjustment. Based on my analysis, I developed a process model that illuminates that guanxi development alters expatriates' adjustment curve significantly. My findings contribute more generally to shed light on cross-cultural management in terms of Chinese guanxi practice and the process of initiating, building, and utilizing guanxi in the Western context.
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Hyams, Michelle. "Can design generate information to aid in technological innovation? an investigation using industry based case studies /." Swinburne Research Bank, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/42017.
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Thesis (MDes) - National School of Design, Swinburne University of Technology, 2008.[Thesis submitted for degree of] Master of Design, to the [Faculty of Design], Swinburne University of Technology, 2008. Typescript. Bibliography: p. 159-165.
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Paydulova, Yana. "The role of collaboration in global virtual team performance : the case of a professional service firm." Reims, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010REIME001.
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Aujourd’hui la société devient de plus en plus ouverte, dynamique et mondialisée. La production du savoir géographiquement disséminée crée des nouveaux défis pour les entreprises. Le travail nécessite davantage de coopération flexible dans les différentes fonctions, divisions et niveaux des entreprises. Cet environnement exige de nouvelles formes d’organisations, plus horizontales et plus coopératives. L’équipe virtuelle présente un mécanisme efficace pour optimiser l’expertise dispersée géographiquement. La communauté collaborative est considérée comme un nouveau modèle organisationnel qui permet à l’entreprise de faire face à des nouveaux défis. L’objectif principal de la thèse est d’étudier le rôle du concept de communauté collaborative dans la performance d’équipes virtuelles au sein d’entreprises de services professionnels; et de comprendre comment une telle communauté collaborative pourrait être construite au sein d’une entreprise. En associant la littérature sur la performance des équipes virtuelles et sur la collaboration, la thèse vérifie empiriquement les relations entre ces deux concepts. Les tests sur lesquels nous avons appuyé notre analyse ont été effectués sur deux types de population au sein d’une entreprise de services professionnels. L’étude de cas qualitative a permis une meilleure compréhension et interprétation des résultats quantitatifs. Cette approche complémentaire fournit également des idées pertinentes pour le développement d’une communauté collaborative au sein d’une entreprise. La thèse apporte une contribution à la recherche sur les dynamiques des équipes virtuelles et valorise le rôle de communauté collaborative dans leurs performancesToday society becomes increasingly open, dynamic, and globalized. Strong orientation on knowledge-based and solution-orientated production creates new challenges for companies. Increasingly, the work requires flexible cooperation across functions, divisions, and levels within organizations. The environment requires new, flatter, more collaborative forms of organization. Virtual team is an effective mechanism to optimize the use of company internal expertise dispersed geographically. Collaborative community is seen as a new organizational model enabling organization to face new challenges. The key objectives of this study are to investigate the role of collaborative community concept for virtual team performance in the context of professional service firm and get better insight on how such collaborative community could be built within one company. Combining the literature on virtual team performance and collaboration, the study empirically tests the relations between these two concepts. In particular the testing was performed on two types of population within the same company PSF. The qualitative case study was conducted to ensure better understanding / interpretation of the quantitative results. This complementary approach also provided useful insights on the strategy of building collaborative community within a PSF. The study contributes to the literature on the dynamics of virtual team by improving the understanding of the role of collaborative community for its performance
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Théodoropoulos, Alexandra. "Les accords collectifs de groupe." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO30044.
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D’abord cantonnés au secteur industriel, les groupes de sociétés se sont progressivement développés dans l’ensemble des secteurs d’activités et sont devenus en quelques années des acteurs incontournables de la vie économique et sociale. Le regroupement d’entreprises sous la domination d’une société-mère s’est accompagné d’une recherche d’unité dans les modes de gestion et les statuts sociaux déployés dans chaque entreprise les composant. C’est dans ce contexte que s’est développée la négociation d’accords de groupe. De simple expérimentation issue de la pratique, la négociation collective de groupe est devenue un véritable niveau de négociation collective reconnue par le législateur. L’accord de groupe est désormais consacré comme une norme créatrice de droits et d’obligations entre employeurs et salariés du groupe, mais sa place dans la hiérarchie des normes n’a pas été précisée. Cette situation génère de nombreuses interrogations quant à sa portée et à ses limites : chaque apport du législateur à la construction du régime juridique des accords de groupe soulève de nouvelles difficultés avec lesquelles les partenaires sociaux doivent composer. La présente étude tentera de mettre en évidence les solutions proposées par les partenaires sociaux pour affiner et sécuriser le régime juridique applicable aux accords de groupeOriginally confined to the industrial sector, corporate groups have gradually developed in all sectors and have become in just a few years key players in economic and social life. The business combination under supervision of parent company was accompanied by a search for unity in management methods and employees’ status. The negotiation of group agreements has developed in this context. Simple hands-on experience at the beginning, group collective bargaining has become a real level of collective bargaining recognized by the legislator. The group agreement is now set out as a standard which establishing rights and obligations between employers and employees of the group, but its place in the hierarchy of norms has not been specified. This situation generates many questions about its scope and its limits: each legislator’s contribution to the group agreements’ legal regime raises new difficulties that the social partners have to deal with. This study will attempt to identify the solutions proposed by the social partners in order to refine and secure the group agreements’ legal regime
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Yan, Shuang Shuang. "How does business group affiliation affect firm performance? An empirical study in China." Thesis, University of Macau, 2008. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1951100.
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Jonsson, Andreas. "Gruppklimatets betydelse : En kvalitativ studie om elevers upplevelser avgruppklimat i ämnet idrott och hälsa på gymnasiet." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap (ID), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-50182.
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This essay is about the significance of group climate for students in physical education. Groupwork and group processes are dealt with in the essay and its importance to students' experiences of the subject and goal attainment. During the autumn of 2015 two different classes in high school were studied in the subject physical education and health. These classes were observed at two different occasions and eight students, four in each class, were selected to participate in the study based on “the role of assumptions” described in the previous research section. Questions regarding group climate and groupwork were asked in order to investigate how the groups were composed, and how the students explained the significance of group climate. Students' responses were connected to Bion’s group theory and the FIRO model which was used as the theoretical foundation and previous research explains groupwork and group processes. The results of the study indicate that students experienced group climate in the class as problematic. Students in the selected classes were divided into many small groups and they explained that they were not talking to the other small groups. The group climate influenced some of the students to the extent that they did not attend classes which may obstruct their goal attainment. According to students, classes had not had any practice in trusting eachother which contradicts the fact that many researchers indicate that it is the teacher's responsibility to create a better climate in classes. Therefore, it may be important for teachers to work actively with exercises that promote group climate. Authors point out that it is becoming more important in today's society to cooperate in most professions. This was also something the students felt they had the opportunity to practice during group work. Students felt that it could sometimes be effective to let the teacher decide the groups in advance because they had the opportunity to get to know more people in the class. Even though a student wants to be in the same group as his best friend it does not mean that it is mutual.
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Mogolola, Prudence Bafedile. "Exploring the benefits of inter-firm collaboration : how institutional voids shape the benefits of collaboration." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22771.
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Institutional voids are increasingly gaining precedence and research attention due to the increased participation of developing countries in global markets (Mair&Marti, 2009). This theory focuses on the identification of weaknesses in institutions and how these voids result in ineffective functioning of emerging markets (Mair&Marti, 2009). In this study, focus is on collaboration as a strategy used by the emerging markets to overcome the absence of institutional and regulatory frameworks, prevalent in their capital, labour and product markets.Forty (40) South African small-medium enterprises were analysed to determine what the priority collaborative benefits are for firms operating in the emerging market context. The research shows that in emerging markets, collaboration benefits are based on a need to overcome institutional voids i.e. to reduce the costs and risks associated with weak institutions.Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Šťastný, Ondřej. "Spotřebitelská soutěž firmy Pfanner." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-4568.
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This thesis focuses on consumer competitions. Author designed the consumer competition based on theoretical knowledge, which is mentioned in the theoretical part of the thesis. This part contains all types of competitions,legal regulations and outlines present problems in this area. In the practical part of the work author describes juice market and target group. Key part is the competition design itself, including the economic impact of the competition.
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Popelka, Josef. "Návrh marketingové strategie pro firmu Dixons Carphone Group plc." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-225349.
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The master thesis deals with the proposal of marketing strategy for Dixons Carphone group plc. company, which her primary business is selling consumer electronics and mobile devices. Further in this thesis are described the essential marketing tools, which are applied on analyzed company. Based on gained results from particular analysis the proposals and suggestions are made.
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Mazaud, Jean-Philippe. "De la librairie au groupe Hachette (1944-1980) : transformations des pratiques dirigeantes dans le livre." Paris, EHESS, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002EHES0010.
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Škrobáková, Irena. "Lobby farmaceutických firem v České republice." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-193707.
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The pharmaceutical companies are considered as one of the most influential interest groups within drug policy, or in general within healthcare system. Therefore, this diploma thesis is focused on the influence of the pharmaceutical manufacturers on legislative framework that forms the drug policy, on the impact on the concrete implementation of drug policy and finally on the influence on prescription, sales and public opinion. Based on an analysis of the pharmaceutical market and the drug policy of the Czech Republic, the diploma thesis defines the most common interests of the pharmaceutical companies which they are trying to push through lobbying. Furthermore, the thesis identifies the access points through which these interests can push through and tries to illustrate these facts on concrete examples.
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Rychtecký, Michal. "Výběr informačního systému pro firmu VAMCORP GROUP, spol. s r.o." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Ústav soudního inženýrství, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-446774.
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Subject matter of this diploma thesis is selection of a suitable information system which purpose will be to improve processes and competitiveness of a company VAMCORP GROUP, spol. s.r.o. The thesis will analyze business requirements which need to be met by specific information system and compare possibilities for its acquisition. Each information system will be described. Based on attributes set by observed company the most suitable one will be selected. An implementation procedure will be proposed for the selected information system, including a risk analysis related to its implementation and the operation itself. The number of risks will be reduced by propounding befitting measures. Appropriate measures to minimize them will be proposed for individual risks. Subsequently, costs associated with the implementation and operation of selected information system will be quantified. In conclusion will be summarized the content of the thesis accompanied by enumeration of benefits which will be brought by selected information system to observed company.
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Trepešová, Lucie. "Vliv kurzového rizika na finančním řízení mezinárodní firmy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-7596.
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Diplomová práce mapuje vliv kurzového rizika na finanční řízení mezinárodních firem. Predstavuje metody a nástroje mezinárodního finančního řízení a řízení treasury. Dále popisuje instrumenty, které společnosti používají k zabezpečení proti kurzovému riziku. Na praktickém příkladu velké mezinárodní korporace práce ukázuje procedury a prostředky řízení tohoto rizika.
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Peres, Carlos Augusto. "Ecology of mixed-species groups of tamarins in Amazonian terra firme forests." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278502.
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Kolářová, Jana. "Analýza organizační kultury výrobní firmy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-162851.
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The Master's Thesis is aimed to analyse the organizational culture of a manufacturing company in order to provide sufficient materials for the following decision making of the executive director of the company in terms of its future course. Each method was used while taking into consideration to cover both qualitative and quantitative research approach due to multidimensional character of the studied phenomena. The current state of the topic is included in the thesis. The combination of Denison Organizational Culture Survey and group interview based on Edgar H. Schein was newly applied during the research which may contribute to practitioners considering a similar analysis in their organizations. Main research findings and recommendations are discussed in the end of the thesis.
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Pollack, Jeffrey. "SOCIAL TIES AND TEAM-MEMBER EXCHANGE AS ANTECEDENTS TO PERFORMANCE IN NETWORKING GROUPS." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1805.
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The present research examines the role of social ties and team-member exchange quality (TMX) in enabling small business owners involved in formal networking groups to gain access to new business. I report on data from two studies. First, initial data from a pilot study of 23 small business owners in networking groups revealed that more numerous social ties and more positive perceptions of team-member exchange quality (TMX) predicted performance outcomes. Specifically, individuals who had more numerous social ties within a networking group, and who reported higher TMX perceptions of their group, received significantly more referrals to potential clients compared to individuals who had numerous social ties but lower perceptions of TMX. Second, using a sample of 336 small business owners across 24 networking groups I built on these initial results, and incorporated an expanded theoretical framework, to explore how and when social ties and TMX influence the effectiveness of small business owners in networking groups. Specifically, I draw on the literatures related to social network theory, team-member exchange quality and affective organizational commitment to guide my exploration of the effectiveness of small business owners in networking groups. Data support the conclusion that both social ties and team-member exchange are important factors predicting the performance outcomes of small business owners in networking groups. Further, the data illustrate the mediating role of affective organizational commitment between the relation of social ties and team-member exchange on performance outcomes. I discuss implications and describe areas for future research based on these findings.
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Walton, James Keith. "Thin Film Group II-VI Solar Cells Based on Band-Offsets." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/435.
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The amount of traditional energy sources are finite and the ecological impact of continuing to produce energy using fossil fuels will only exacerbate the carbon footprint. It is for these reasons that photovoltaic modules are becoming a larger and more necessary part the world's electricity production paradigm. Photovoltaic (PV) semiconductor modules are grouped into three categories. 'First generation' monocrystalline and polycrystalline silicon modules that consist of pn junctions created via the addition of impurities known as dopants. Almost 85% of solar cells produced at this time are `first generation' and it is the high production costs of silicon PV modules that motivated the search for new methods and materials to use as PV cells. 'Second generation' PV modules consist of semiconductor thin films. The 'second generation' PV modules in production at this time are copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS), copper indium gallium (CIG), amorphous silicon (a-Si), and cadmium telluride (CdTe). The 'third generation' PV modules consist of dye-sensitized and organic materials. Thin films use less material, have less stringent production parameters and less waste, making thin films cost effective. In this investigation, solar cells were prepared using un-doped Group II-VI semiconductor thin films that exploit differences in bandoffsets to form effective p-n heterojunctions as a viable low cost alternative to doping. The thin films were deposited by thermal evaporation upon glass substrates coated with indium tin oxide (ITO). A layer of aluminum formed the back contact. Various configurations of the solar cells were produced including: ITO/CdS/CdSe/Al, ITO/ZnTe/CdSe/Al, ITO/CdTe/CdSe/Al, ITO/ZnTe/CdTe/CdS/Al. The solar cells produced have been characterized to determine thin film internal resistances, quantum and 'wall-plug' efficiencies, as well as I-V and spectral response. The open circuit voltage, short circuit current density, fill factor, and efficiency of our best devices were 0.26 V, 4.6 mA, 27.5 and 0.4% respectively. Additional device optimization should be possible and should improve these results. Solar cell design based on band-offset is an effective method for predetermining likely PV structures, while future investigation using Group II-VI semiconductor nanowires and nanorods and employing epitaxial films are likely to enhance the efficiency.
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Fajnorová, Markéta. "Návrh marketingové strategie firmy Inspur Group Co. ltd. pro český trh." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-82017.
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The diploma thesis is structured into three chapters, while the first chapter informs about theoretical concept of B-2-B marketing, defines basic specifics of B-2-B market and concerns about actual trends and frequent mistakes, which are made while preparing B-2-B marketing strategy. Next chapter informs about actual situation on the server market in the Czech Republic and mainly focuses on the external and internal environment of the firm. The last chapter is based on the personal discussion with potential distribution and service partners that provided useful information about the concurrence, actual situation on the market and defined trade requirements towards Inspur.
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Kokt, Deseré. "The impact of organisational culture on service delivery in Group4 Securicor (G4S)." Thesis, Bloemfontein : Central University of Technology, Free State, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/88.
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Thesis (D. Tech.) -- Central University of Technology, Free State, 2007In the face of international crime and terrorism, private security together with public policing and the military is playing a crucial role. The domain of private security is a fairly neglected field of study, especially in South Africa, making this investigation a substantial contribution. With the focus on the impact of organisational culture on the levels of service delivery in South Africa’s largest security company, Group4 Securicor (G4S), a model is proposed for aligning organisational culture with levels of service excellence within the company. Data was collected by means of a structured questionnaire with a preceding pilot study. The Competing Values Framework (CVF) and the Baldrige criteria served respectively as guideline for the development of the culture and quality sections of the questionnaire. Although organisational culture and service excellence are well-researched topics, no other investigation applies these aspects to the private security industry. The results show that organisational cultural impacts on service excellence in G4S.
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Fourie, Elizabeth. "The representation of materialist consumerism in film." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/954.
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People are constantly bombarded with the latest technology, the latest fashion, the latest ‘must have’ item. We are encouraged to buy things that promise to change our lives and give us satisfaction or even create happiness. Interestingly we often succumb to the temptation of these material things, which is not always a negative reaction; however it does become negative when our lives are controlled by material possessions and we give up certain aspects of who we are to enable us to obtain these possessions. Further more it becomes problematic when we start to rely on material possessions to define us in terms of our identity or to help us fit into particular groups within society. With the media playing such a large role in societies at present it is almost inevitable that the phenomenon of materialist consumerism will make its way into the media. The media however holds control, to an extent, over whether or not materialist consumerism is viewed in a negative or affirmative light. An analysis of the representation of materialist consumerism in selected instances of mainstream cinema will be the aim of my proposed study. The study will look at the representation of materialist consumerism in so far as it offers viewers a place to ‘fit’ into a particular group within society. The group I am referring to can be categorised as the upper-middle class of contemporary western society. I have thus selected films that represent this group specifically. For the purpose of the treatise ‘materialist consumerism’ is understood as a way of life, or alternatively, an ideology, which assumes that the accumulation of material wealth through consumption imparts meaning to human lives. The treatise will analyse both sides of the coin, or in other words films that support or promote materialist consumerism and those that either revolt against or criticise this form of consumerism. The study will explore different aspects of consumerism in so far as these are represented in the films, with an identifiable axiological bias.
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Brenner, Steffen. "Differentiated customers and firms." Doctoral thesis, [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=964624028.
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von, Maffei Christian, Frauke Görges, Werner Kissling, Wolfgang Schreiber, and Christine Rummel-Kluge. "Using films as a psychoeducation tool for patients with schizophrenia." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-169650.
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Background: Relapses and, subsequently, readmissions are common in patients with schizophrenia. Psychoeducation has been shown to reduce the number and duration of readmissions. Yet, only little more than 20% of psychiatric patients in German speaking countries receive psychoeducation. Among other reasons, costs may be considered
too high by hospitals. The objective of the present study was to test the feasibility of a new cost-efficient approach in the psychoeducation of patients with schizophrenia. In this study, films were used to impart knowledge about the illness to inpatients.
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Liu, Siming. "Accounting quality across different groups of firms under differential reporting framework : UK evidence." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8225.
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Motivation: The IASB and the UK ASB have adopted different financial reporting rules for different classes of company. The IASB have IFRS and IFRS for SMEs. In the UK, currently companies follow IFRS (for public companies), UK GAAP (for medium-sized companies) or FRSSE (for small companies). Furthermore, some companies are exempt from audit. It is difficult to evaluate the efficacy of this approach to regulation since the ASB (and IASB) do not specify what consequences should follow. Do they expect public companies have higher accounting quality than medium and small companies? Or do they expect accounting quality to be the same across different groups of companies? Objective: The main objective of this study is to examine accounting quality in order to inform the future policy and discussion about the differential reporting framework. We examine the effects of accounting standards across public, medium and small companies. However, companies also face reporting discipline from market forces, and consequently we also examine the impact of debt-holders on reporting quality across and within medium and small companies. Methodology: We measure accounting quality from different aspects. For the assessment of differential accounting standards, we use: the level of accruals (ratio of cash flows to earnings), earnings smoothing, and target beating. For the assessment of any debt-holders effect, we use aspects that are suited to their needs, namely: earnings conservatism, and earnings persistence. Main Findings: Under the discipline of accounting standards, we find that the financial reporting behaviour of medium sized entities is significantly different from public and small companies. This suggests that accounting standards do not equalise accounting quality. The impacts of debt-holders on accounting quality are generally weak within medium and small companies. This implies that accounting standards are the main discipline for financial reporting for medium and small companies, which is consistent with the suggestions of Ball and Shivakumar (2005). However, we raise a few issues concerning the interpretation of the accounting quality measurements (earnings conservatism and earnings persistence) and provide theoretical and empirical support for the discussion. Recommendations: We suggest the accounting regulations for private companies may need to be further strengthened, especially for medium-sized companies.
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Hrbáč, Vojtěch. "Marketingová strategie firmy nabízející služby v oblasti Event Marketingu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-223155.
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The subject of these diploma work is estimation marketing strategy of the company, which is making events. In first and theoretic part of this diploma work I dealing with prodigy of eventu and his mening in today´s companies. There is also mention about story when this mark is started to use at all, when modern society has been started interest about it, as aviable part of marketing mix. I enlarge here theoretics contributions and reasons why is important arrange him. In practical part I dealing with aspects of event himself and process of realization. Because in this time I working in company creating this events, I had posibility to look on this evets from the another side. I also had posibility notice mistakes which are making on actions, in this part of marketing. In final part I mented about efectivity events and outlines the future.
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Hung, Li-Ting. ""They don't throw, they turn ; they don't fire, they burn" place and identity in Seagrove, North Carolina /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=952.
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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 1999.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 141 p. : ill. (some col.), maps Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-141).
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Gold, Jeffrey Stephen. "Characterization of a novel methyl radical source and related thin film growth studies." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2000. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1787.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2000.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 108 p. : ill. (some col.) + appendix; 37 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-108; p. A-37).
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Gil, Adrian. "Top management team heterogeneity, global strategic posture, and firm performance evidence from MNES headquartered around the world /." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2009. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.
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Boroňová, Martina. "Marketingová strategie malé firmy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-197795.
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The thesis is focused on developing a common communication strategy of Mortimer English Club Praha 4, a branch of a franchise language school that provides English courses for children and adults. The thesis consists of two parts, a theoretical one and a practical one. The theoretical part deals with the process of developing the company's strategy that would lead to the fulfillment of business objectives using information acquired with situational analysis. The second part applies the steps of this procedure to the subject of research. The outcome of the thesis is a recommendation on what target group the language school should focus, together with a list of communication channels with which it can reach it.
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Malmström, Rognes Åsa. "Family Matters : Essays on Families, Firms and Funding in the Philippines 1850–2014." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-282101.
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Family Matters – Essays of Families, Firms and Funding in the Philippines 1850–2014 is a study of family business groups in the Philippines. It consists of an introductory essay and four separate papers. The introductory essay frames the thesis in the vast literature on family firms and family business groups in emerging economies, discusses sources and methodology, and provides an overview of Philippine economic history to give the overarching economic context to the separate papers. The first paper deals with the role of institutions in understanding the dominance and prevalence of family business groups in the Philippines. The literature posits that weak institutions can help explain the predominance of family business groups in emerging economies. This paper takes a historical perspective to examine whether that explanation holds over time, examining the development of core property rights and core economic institutions over time and how family firms have responded. The second paper studies funding options in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and whether the rapidly growing financial system was driven from above or below. The paper examines the impact it had on the explicit goal of stimulating investment and growth in the early twentieth century and what that meant for family firms. The third paper studies capital market developments since the Asian crisis and in particular the growth of the corporate bond market in the Philippines; how this development and how it affected family business groups. The fourth paper deals with governance and management capabilities and examines professionalization of family firms over time to seek to answer the question of longevity. Management literature provides studies and models for family firms but these are fairly recent whereas the family firms that have been in business for several generations have found ways to manage for the long term. The paper analyses what three select groups have done in terms of professionalization and management.
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Wong, Shing-yue Samuel, and 黃承裕. "Development strategies of property firms in Hong Kong: case study of Sino Group." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31266861.
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Wong, Shing-yue Samuel. "Development strategies of property firms in Hong Kong : case study of Sino Group /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14724030.
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Sinyard, David B. "The Investment Process Used By Private Equity Firms: Does The Affect Heuristic Impact Decision-Making?" Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/bus_admin_diss/25.
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Individuals utilize heuristics in order to simplify problems, which may lead to biases in decision-making. The research question of this study is: “How does the affect heuristic impact the investment process of private equity decision-makers reviewing proposals?” Through an exploratory multi-case analysis, insight is provided into complex private equity decisions by studying biases in the investment process. This is a study of private equity groups’ (PEG) decision-making process when they consider businesses for investment. Qualitative data was generated from semi-structured interviews with twenty private equity decision-makers. The deliberative heuristics applied in the teaser review are learned from process experience and guide the deliberation on whether to proceed. Simplifying heuristics are applied in the more informal review process. Organizational learning was exhibited as the PEGs have modified their investment structures based on previous experiences. The study indicates that experience and learning lead to the construction of an affect heuristic that subsequently impacts investments. It also confirms the need for strategic decision-makers to recognize their own biases and adjust their processes accordingly.
A significant practical implication of this study is the insight provided into the views of the PEG decision-makers as they anticipate the need to supplement the management team is helpful to business owners and their advisors. The study highlights the opportunities for biases in PEG decision-making processes. Accessing decision-makers at larger PEGs and approaching more middle market firms would broaden the results.
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Kusák, Jiří. "Finanční řízení stavební zakázky v rámci sdružení firem." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-372044.
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This Master’s thesis focuses on a financial management of construction order in the context of a group of companies. The thesis is divided into two parts. The theoretical part covers all aspects of this topic, which is to describe a construction company, construction order, financial planning of construction company, financial management of construction order, and further is to define group of companies (association of companies), its contract and authorities. The practical part focuses on financial management of real construction order, which has been realized by group of construction companies. Firstly, the thesis defines costs and revenues of association of companies in detail which are related to real construction order. The practical part is further divided into three variants. First variant determines profit and loss of group of companies and its individual participants for the given period. The next two variants display designed specific model situations and their result is also to determine profit and loss of group of companies and its individual participants. The main goal of the thesis is to compare all variants together and evaluation along with comments.
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Chen, Yu-Yen, and 陳玉晏. "The Impact of Managerial Ownership on Firm Performance and the Differences between Group Firms and Non-group Firms." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27985798648006263295.
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產業經濟學系
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This paper provides empirical evidence about the impacts of the two types of managerial ownership in Taiwan on firm performance and the differences between group affiliates and unaffiliated firms. We constitute a balanced panel containing information about 229 firms listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange in 1994 for the 6-year period 1995-2000. The purpose of this study is to investigate the substitutability of the two types of managerial ownership in Taiwan and the relationship between managerial ownership and firm performance and the differences between group firms and non-group firms.The empirical results show that there exist substitutability between shareholdings of individual and institutional managers and the substitutability in group and non-group firms is quite different. The substitution of institutional ownership for individual ownership in group firms is more substantial than in non-group firms. Institutional ownership creates a mechanism for group members to tie together, and hence should be more important and less substitutable in group affiliates. However, for group affiliates, because institutional ownership may cause some problems to reduce firm performance, the substitution of individual ownership for institutional ownership is more substantial than that of institutional for individual ownership. Besides, pyramids and cross-holdings are commonly used mechanisms within business groups for families to concentrate control. Both individual and institutional managerial ownership have more significant impacts on performance in unaffiliated firms because the transparency problem and reciprocal ownership caused by pyramids and cross-ownership in business groups make the performance of member firms less sensitive to the changes of managerial ownership. Our empirical results also suggest that the institutional managerial ownership in Taiwan has a negative impact on performance and conform to entrenchment hypothesis. To unaffiliated firms, institutional managers are representatives arranged by institutions, they do not really hold shareholding of the firm and they may tend to consume excess perquisites and engage in opportunistic behavior at shareholders’ expenses. For group firms, institutional managers may usually be family members, when there are interests conflicts between their families and corporations, they may consider their family interests fist and cause damage to minority shareholders. Finally, the individual managerial ownership in Taiwan does enhance firm performance. Individual ownership in Taiwan listed companies serve as a credible guarantee of bearing the cost of not maximizing the value of shares and conform to convergence -of-interest-hypothesis.
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Wu, Chun-Lin, and 巫俊霖. "Firm Size, Business Group, Innovation and Firm Performance." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21529374901587413776.
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碩士靜宜大學
國際企業學系研究所
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Taiwan has encountered party alternations in power since year 2000, therefore resulting changes in economic strategy. However, enterprises haven’t changed their goals towards internationalization. Many of the past studies researched how performance of firms affected their international entry mode or measurement of performance. These studies were conducted to help enterprises having better strategies and development. This study was conducted for the enterprises performance in Taiwan as a reference. The research purpose of current study is to examine whether firm size, business group, and firm innovation can increase firms’ performance as independent variables. Return on Assets (ROA) was applied as performance data reference values in the study. The data of enterprises in iron industry, automotive, electronics, cement industry, and foodstuffs industry from 2001 to 2008 was used as the research samples. The enterprises were analyzed by the three independent variables to examine whether these has positive impacts on return on assets. Firm size was measured by total assets and net operation income, setting business group as virtual variable, R&D expenditures as innovation to analyze. This study is useful for enterprises in Taiwan. For enterprises, by the scale of the company, business group or not and innovation, we can know that if the results could be promoted or not. And we can tell if it’s good or bad for the company by the trading strategy and the condition of team up with other company, and also to decrease the crisis of deficit to the enterprise.
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Yeh, Yi-Ta, and 葉易達. "Network linkages and firm internationalization：Evidence from Taiwanese business groups." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78051229330609149230.
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碩士亞洲大學
國際企業學系碩士班
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Research on internationalization has been addressed for years. In Asia, business group can form a network which can provides an international experience, but also be able to make use of group resources, more rapid access to overseas investment. This study uses Taiwan companies as the sample. We use data from Taiwan Economic Journal to test our hypotheses. The empirical results show that the group elements and Taiwan enterprises to invest overseas is indeed a significant relationship between the group and when the higher age groups, group members will decline in the proportion of overseas investment enterprises, as the relationship become negative.
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Fang, Hsiang-Ju, and 方湘茹. "The influences of time, firm, group, and industry effects on Taiwanese business groups' performance: A hierarchical linear model." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92303822230139877689.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
企業管理系
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The debate on sources of firms’ profitability which are driven by industries or firms’ strategies is one of the most concerned issues by strategic management scholars. Early industrial organization theorists advocate industry structure is the central determinant influencing firms’ profitability and the theory is on the basis of conduct-behavior-performance view. However, in 1980s, resource-based theory proposes that firm’s resources and core competences are the main factors. In addition, Taiwanese business groups’ play an important role in Taiwan economics. As a result, this study discusses the central sources of firms’ profitability driven by firm factors, group enterprises factors or industry factors. This study analyzes listed companies, OTC listed companies and emerging companies’ profitability from the years 1997 to 2010 by using hierarchical linear modeling method. The results support resource-based view and reveal that subsidiary company effects are the most important factor. In other words, subsidiary companies’ strategies and resources are the main sources of firm’s profitability. After that, we partition samples into two subsamples and discuss the difference of group effects among economic recovery and recessions. The results show that group effects are higher during recessions. Furthermore, we also discuss the importance of time effects on firms’ profitability, and the results prove that time effects exist and are the biggest part of the variance of firms’ profitability.
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Lai, Wei-cheng, and 賴維誠. "Ownership Structure and Firm Diversification of the Group." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42124081364159455028.
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碩士朝陽科技大學
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In the present study, we investigate the motive of companies’ diversification in terns of the agency cost and further study the impact on the firm performance. The empirical results show that the controlling rights of controlling shareholders are positively correlated to the cash-flow rights. This confirms that Taiwan Group''s core companies are belong to ownership concentration ones, which is similar to that in companies of most Southeast Asian countries (La Porta et al.1999) As in the company with the concentration of ownership, the controlling shareholder owns both control rights and cash-flow rights in which those have the impact on the value of the company, in which those are the incentive effects and the entrenchment effects. Empirically we show that the more serious agency problems the group’s core company has, the worse the entrenchment effects are. It would decrease the the value of the company since the controlling shareholder might take the product diversification strategy basing on the self-interested behavior. Even though we could not prove that the less serious agency problems the company has, the controlling shareholder owns the incentive effect. However, we find the greater cash flow rights the company has, the company could enhance its firm performance through diversification.
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Lin, Yu-Chih, and 林郁芝. "Firm, Strategic Group, and Industry influences on Performance." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/a2952x.
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碩士逢甲大學
國際貿易所
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This paper used systematic view to examine three level effects on firm performance, these three levels include: firm, strategic group and industry. To know how they could shape the firm performance. Using the method of hierarchical linear and nonlinear modeling. The paper take two views to examine: single industry and multi-industry. Single industry means four industries combined into an industry, and multi-industry here means 4 different industries. When examine the influence on performance by firm level, focus on “how organization feature shape the performance”, from resource base view, when firm get resources and capabilities to make it-self more different than other firms, these process could explain firms’ competitive advantage and performance. But the development of resource base view, didn’t consider the firms’ environment or institution when getting the resources. Institution theory mention’s “environment” is also the factor of organizational homogeneity that make firm’s homogeneous in making the strategy. Here, if Taiwan manufacturing companies’ business model will be influenced by the environment and be homogeneous is one of the topic of these paper. The result reveals that, the industry and strategic group effect has some difference with Short, Palmer, and Ketchen in 2007’s America manufacturing research. The same result is that, in Taiwan, firm level will make strongest effect on firm performance. It explained that in 2003 to 2009, Taiwan manufacture firms had great dominant on themselves. In Short’s American manufacturing research, industry effect’s bigger than strategic group effect, but it’s different in Taiwan. The industry effect in Taiwan’s really small. Strategic research reveals that, under the institutional background, manufacture firms will imitate strategies of other firms with good performance, and it would make Taiwan manufacture firms’ business model become homogeneity.
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"Strategic group and inter-firm rivalry: an empirical study." 1997. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889336.
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by Lui Wing-Wa.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-114).
ABSTRACT --- p.ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.v
LIST OF TABLES --- p.vi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.vii
Chapter CHAPTER I --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1
Chapter CHAPTER II --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.7
Why Strategic Group Formed? --- p.8
Strategic Group - Theoretical and Empirical --- p.11
Level of Analysis --- p.13
Industrial Organization --- p.14
Dynamic Strategic Group --- p.19
Cognitive Perspective of Strategic Group --- p.21
Resource-Based Approach --- p.22
Technological Paradigm --- p.24
Summary --- p.25
Chapter CHAPTER III --- THEORY AND HYPOTHESES --- p.31
Competitor Analysis and Inter-firm Rivalry --- p.33
"Strategic Groups, Competitor Analysis and Inter-firm Rivalry" --- p.37
Strategic Group and Firm Performance --- p.39
Chapter CHAPTER IV --- METHODOLOGY --- p.45
Sample --- p.45
Measures --- p.46
Independent Variables --- p.46
Dependent Variables --- p.50
Analytical Strategies --- p.52
Chapter CHAPTER V --- RESULTS --- p.55
Results Ordinary Least Square (OLS) Analysis --- p.55
Results of Moderating Multiple Regression (MMR) Analysis --- p.57
Chapter CHAPTER VI --- FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION --- p.65
Market Commonality and Resource Similarity Mapping in Japanese Automobile Manufacturing Industry --- p.65
"Market Commonality, Resource Similarity and Performance" --- p.76
Chapter CHAPTER VII --- CONCLUSION --- p.81
APPENDIX 1 --- p.86
APPENDIX 2 --- p.89
APPENDIX 3 --- p.94
APPENDIX 4 --- p.96
APPENDIX 5 --- p.98
BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.104
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Børrestad, Marcus. "Møller Mobility Group racing the future." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/29216.
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For the next five years, the automotive industry is expected to change more than in the last twenty years. Scholars have for a long time developed a wide array of theories and concepts on how firms cope with changing environments and gain a competitive advantage. Contributing to the existing theories, this thesis illustrates how the leading automotive group in the Nordic countries, Møller Mobility Group, gained a competitive advantage with the launch and development of several initiatives from 2014 to 2018. This case study displays how the unprecedented changes in the automotive industry affected Møller Mobility Group and led to several alterations within the company. Combining the case with current literature, it demonstrates how the attention-based view of firm behavior inadequately explains company performance. Additionally, this case study elucidates how a consolidated multidimensional construct of dynamic capabilities better explains how firms cope with a changing environment. Finally, this thesis illustrates how firms can internally analyze their resources and capabilities when facing highly dynamic environments.Espera-se que nos próximos cinco anos a indústria automóvel venha a sofrer alterações superiores às experienciadas nos últimos vinte anos. O universo académico tem desenvolvido ao longo dos anos um vasto número de teorias e conceitos que visam explicar como é que as empresas podem sobreviver em ambientes dinâmicos, de rápida mudança e como é que as mesmas podem adquirir vantagens competitivas. Contribuindo para as teorias recentes, esta dissertação visa ilustrar como um dos maiores grupos automóveis nos países nórdicos conseguiu manter a sua vantagem competitiva através do lançamento e desenvolvimento de múltiplas iniciativas entre 2014 e 2018. O caso de estudo do Grupo Moller Mobility demonstra como alterações sem precedente na indústria automóvel afetaram o grupo norueguês, levando a alterações profundas na empresa. Combinando este caso com a presente literatura, esta dissertação espelha como a "Attention-Based View" não é a que melhor explica a performance da empresa, sendo que o método de "Consolidated Multidimensional Construct of Dynamic Capabilities" fornece uma melhor explicação sobre a forma como as empresas podem sobreviver em contextos em permanente mudança. Por final, esta dissertação ilustra como é que as empresas podem analisar internamente os seus recursos e capacidades, face a ambientes altamente dinâmicos.
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Rebelo, Rita Tiago. "Equity research: group Inditex." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/6908.
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A company valuation is a complex process that requires a rich set of assumptions from the analyst – understanding the mechanisms behind valuation is crucial to make value-added decisions. The aim of this thesis is to value Inditex, one of the world´s largest fashion retailers. For this end, different valuation methodologies are described, used and compared, (the reasons concerning them will be explained), combining the academic approach with the most used practices in the valuation market. The equivalence between different discounted cash flow methods (such as the weighted average cost of capital, the adjusted present value, and the flow to equity) is an element of pedagogical interest in this master’s final work. Finally, the valuation result obtained will be subject to sensitivity analysis, to comparison with the traded market value, and comparison with the results obtained from a well-known Portuguese investment bank (Banco Português de Investimento), evidencing the main differences between both analysis.III Rita Tiago Rebelo II. RESUMO A avaliação de empresas é um processo complexo que requer a definição de um vasto conjunto de pressupostos pelo analista. A compreensão dos mecanismos de suporte de uma avaliação é fundamental para que possam ser tomadas decisões de valor acrescentado. O objectivo desta tese é avaliar o Grupo Inditex, um dos maiores retalhistas de moda do mundo. Para este fim foram descritas, analisadas, aplicadas e comparadas diferentes metodologias de avaliação (as razões subjacentes a cada uma serão apresentadas), combinando a abordagem académica com as práticas mais utilizadas no mercado de avaliações. A equivalência existente entre os diversos métodos de discounted cash flow (tais como o weighted average cost of capital, o adjusted present value, e o flow to equity) é um elemento de interesse pedagógico neste trabalho final de mestrado. Por último, o resultado obtido da avaliação será sujeito a análises de sensibilidade, a comparações com o valor de mercado e com os resultados obtidos por um conhecido banco de investimento Português (Banco Português de Investimento), evidenciando as principais diferenças entre ambas as análises.
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SUNG, MAN-CHEN, and 宋曼甄. "The Effect of Industry Relatedness of Business Groups on Firm Performance." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37g4b4.
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碩士國立中正大學
會計與資訊科技研究所
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of industry relatedness of business groups on firm performance. The industry relatedness measurements are employed to capture two kind of the diversification strategy (vertical relatedness and complementary). The performance indexes include sales growth rate, assets growth rate, return on assets, return on equity, Tobin’s q and stock returns. Multiple regression models are established to test our hypotheses. Samples are all publicly listed business groups in Taiwan from 2001 to 2015. The results indicate that the industry relatedness of business groups is a significant positive impact on assets growth rate, return on assets, return on equity, and Tobin’s q. When the degree of vertical relatedness increases, the (1) assets growth rate (2) return on assets (3) return on equity and (4) Tobin’s q will also increase. In terms of complementary, the degree of complementary positively affect firm’s assets growth rate. However, the industry relatedness of business groups is no significant relationship with the sales growth rate and stock returns.
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Santos, Liliana Gavazzi. "Institutional quality, firm performance and business groups: evidence from emerging economies." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/4039.
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Firms face numerous challenges while doing their business operations and one of
the biggest challenges is to deal with the conditions of the institutional environment. In this
study I analyse how the quality of the institutional environment influences firm performance
in emerging economies. More exactly, this study develops a comprehensive conceptual
model of six hypothesized relationships between the quality of the three institutional
dimensions proposed by Scott (1995) (regulatory, normative and cognitive) and firm
performance. Besides, it also examines the moderating effect of group affiliation on firm
performance when institutional quality is low. The model is designed through a linear
regression using a sample of 5.166 firms from 19 emerging economies to test the theoretical
hypotheses. The findings indicate that lower regulatory and normative quality will lead to
lower firm performance. The results also show that the moderating effect of group affiliation
has a positive impact on firm performance only when regulatory quality of the institutional
environment is low. Considering the effect of institutions and group affiliation on
performance, this study contributes to our understanding of how firms from countries with
lower institutional quality, that are more likely to face difficulties, can prepare themselves
by building a theory that is context-specific.