Salesperson performance is a key indicator of organizational performance. We know that many different factors such as qualification level, selling skills, organizational culture, reward systems etc. influence salesperson ...

Essay 1: Private Benefits, Wealth-risk Sensitivity and Conglomeration Lifecycle as Determinants of Ownership Structure In the first essay we investigate the cross-sectional determinants of ownership and examine the effect ...

The promotion of products and brands has become increasingly important for marketing managers over the years. One of the commonly used ways to promote a product or brand is through scarcity appeal. Scarcity appeal is defined ...

Regional imbalances in economic growth and development have always drawn attention of the policymakers in federal economies. Two important economic forces having implications for regional disparities are: i) market ...

Existing literature offers the reasons for emergence of foreign direct investment (FDI) through various hypotheses. The intangible assets advantage hypothesis suggests that FDI occurs due to presence of a bundle of “intangible ...

Asset Liability Management (ALM) is a critical part of financial planning for all financial institutions. ALM deals with the management of a mismatch between the assets and liabilities of such firms both in value as well ...

In recent years, the focus of numerous rural credit institutions, which includes lenders from both formal and semi-formal (the micro-finance providers) domains, has started shifting from traditional credit-alone approach ...

In the last couple of decades the concept of corporate social responsibility has gained importance both in practice as well as in research. Globalization and international trade have given rise to increased complexities ...

The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging a set of facilities with given lengths on a line so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The problem ...

The recent global financial crisis has taught us a tough and important lesson- there is a pressing need for containing systemic risk in the financial system. However, prior to Containing this risk and form the necessary ...