Asia is the second largest market for the Canadian agri-food exports after the United States market. The competition in Asia has become more intensive in recent years as the agri-food sector in developed nations such as Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States has increasingly relied on exports for growth because of their own slow-growing …
Existing theories regarding mergers and acquisitions mainly focus on either strategic issues that the top management has to deal with or how the employees in an organization deal with the uncertain environment when a change get implemented. The majority of theories do not even mention one of the key actors during a merge; the middle …
This thesis investigates the tendency to herd by 124 Swedish equity mutual funds over the period of 2000 to 2007. By employing the measure developed by Lakonishok et al. (1992) we find strong evidence of herding in the overall sample. The level of herding by the Swedish mutual funds seem to be higher than for …
Adjustment to a new culture is a slow and step-wise process, which can be facilitated by cross-cultural training. First, a comprehensive review of current theories about cross-cultural adjustment and different training techniques is presented. Then, the study looks at the preparation and training of expatriates at Ericsson in relation to these theories. In-depth interviews with …
This thesis will focus on the relation between funds performance and the fund managers. Since there is reason to assume that the manager personally brings an effect to performance, there should also be reason to suspect that a replacement of this manager ought to change the performance of the fund. The purpose of this thesis …
This dissertation investigates both theoretically and empirically the relationships between consumer satisfaction, productivity and profitability. In the research literature, there has been considerable disagreement regarding the possible combined effects of productivity and consumer satisfaction in achieving profitability. Some researchers believe that raising productivity and improving consumer satisfaction are compatible because improved consumer satisfaction decreases the …
In recent years, the government of the Hong Kong SAR intends to diversify the economic structure and make it a more knowledge-based and high value-added economy. Tourism is of course one of the key industries that the government focuses to develop. To grasp the growth of the international tourist arrivals, better infrastructure and wellorganized marketing …
In order for Romania to meet its new political and social expectations as an E.U. member, the Romanian Public Administration has to be reformed. Nationwide, Romanian Public Administration has to assure the same endowment for service quality. After assuring their legal frame, the PA members will arise with responsibility for society and for their foresight. …
A successful flexible enterprise must have an organization knowledge-based. In an era characterized by change, globalization and competition, knowledge is without doubt the most important asset for a company to gain a competitive advantage. Nowadays, in the enterprise, there is a huge amount of unstructured information especially in textual documents. The Text Mining technology, in …
Worldwide, there are more and more enterprises, organizations and educational institutions where the educational process works partially or exclusively via the Internet using a wide range of online courses. In such an online course design, resources and materials made available to learners must compensate the missing of the physical presence of the trainer or teacher …