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Effect of Corporate Restructuring on Shareholder's Value in the Information Technology Sector

Corporate restructuring is the process of revamping one or more aspects of a company which can happen due to various factors either external or internal. The need for restructuring a corporate entity is often a necessity when the company has grown to the point that the original structure can no longer efficiently manage the output and general interests of the company. For example, a corporate restructuring may call for spinning off some departments into subsidiaries as a means of creating a more effective management model as well as taking advantage of tax breaks that would allow the corporation to divert more revenue to the production process. In this scenario, the restructuring is seen as a positive sign of growth of the company and is often welcome by those who wish to see the corporation gain a larger market share. There are a number of motives behind a company opting for a corporate restructuring few of them being inefficient management, to gain market leadership, to increase market share etc. but maximising shareholders value is never a motive for restructuring the business. It becomes an implied motive and hence it is not necessary that all acquisitions or mergers should be able to create value to the shareholders. The research is to find out the impact of a corporate restructuring on value creation for the shareholder. The data collected to measure shareholders value is collected from the annual reports of the company’s websites with no specific restrictions on the time horizon. The financial tools that will be used to measure value is Economic value added (EVA), Market value added (MVA) and Enterprise value. The statistical tools that will be used in the study are descriptive statistics, correlation and regression. Econometric analysis and GARCH model will also be used and tested.
Creating, Winning and Retaining Small Business Customers: An Entrepreneurial Perspective from Australia with Implications for New Zealand

Small to medium size enterprises account for no less than 95% of all businesses at an international level. Within Australia and New Zealand, small to medium size enterprises contribute in excess of 30% of the total economic activity, together with being the largest employer in the private sector. Of paramount importance, however, is the high exit rate of these firms in Australia and New Zealand, whereby one in three firms exit after five years in operation. This study empirically examines entrepreneurial service initiatives within a defined small to medium size enterprises context. The initiatives include the service profit chain, industry best practice, relationships and best practice. Our aim is to introduce these initiatives to enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty, thereby enhancing the growth of these small growing businesses, in turn reducing the high exit rates.
Corporate Social Responsibility as Mutual Governance: International Interactions of Government, Civil Society and Business

There is a growing management literature on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), broadly the responsibility of business to society. Moreover, much of the literature tends to stress either 1) a particular actor perspective (e.g. firms, business associations, governments, civil society), or 2) a particular sphere (e.g. national, sectoral and global) with a particular governance relationship built in. We aim to clarify the debate on the governance of CSR and propose a more comprehensive understanding of CSR governance. We suggest that CSR governance can be conceived of as mutual governance involving two elements: 1) rather than focus on each actor category in isolation we highlight the interactions between them, particularly what we describe as ‘regulatory configurations’; and 2) rather than focus on CSR initiatives as either reflecting home country government programs and largely ignoring the international dimension or reflecting global governance that compensates for weak domestic governance, we highlight how governments can contribute to shaping CSR governance interactions across borders.
Oseltamivir-Resistant Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 Viruses, United States, 2013–14

We report characteristics of oseltamivir-resistant influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses and patients infected with these viruses in the United States. During 2013–14, fifty-nine (1.2%) of 4,968 analyzed US influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses had the H275Y oseltamivir resistance–conferring neuraminidase substitution. Our results emphasize the need for local surveillance for neuraminidase inhibitor susceptibility among circulating influenza viruses.
On Uniqueness in Evolution Quasivariational Inequalities

We consider a rate independent evolution quasivariational inequality in a Hilbert space X with closed convex constraints having nonempty interior. We prove that there exists a unique solution which is Lipschitz dependent on the data, if the dependence of the Minkowski functional on the solution is Lipschitzian with a small constant and if also the gradient of the square of the Minkowski functional is Lipschitz continuous with respect to all variables. We exhibit an example of nonuniqueness if the assumption of Lipschitz continuity is violated by an arbitrarily small degree.
Role of Advertising and Promotion in Brand Equity Creation

This article surveys the effects of the individual's attitude toward advertising and nonmonetary promotions besides other subjects, namely advertising cost and monetary promotions on brand equity. It has been surveyed on 392 consumers in Iran. Its results prove the effective role of the individual's attitude toward advertising in promoting the brand equity. The deficiency of advertising in affecting the perceived quality and brand association, and the inefficacy of nonmonetary promotions on brand equity are the fascinating ramifications. In addition, the findings show that businesses can improve the process of the brand equity management by contemplating the relations between the dimensions of the brand equity.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM): A Technology Driven Tool

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a management approach that seeks to create, develop and enhance relationships with carefully targeted customers in order to maximize customer value, corporate profitability and thus shareholders’ value. Managing relationship with the customers has been of importance since last many centuries, but with invent of information technology a new discipline in name of CRM has emerged. The CRM is primarily concerned with utilizing information technology to implement relationship marketing strategies. The emergence of CRM is a consequence of a number of trends like shift in business focus from transactional to relationship marketing, transition in structuring organizations on a strategic basis from functions to processes, and acceptance of the need for trade-off between delivering and extracting customer value. The greater utilization of technology in managing and maximizing value of information has also led to modern shape of CRM.
Occupational Stress and Diverse Coping Behaviour : A Study on Management Trainees

The main purpose of the research was to explore whether there is a relationship between coping behaviour and occupational stress. Review of literature highlights that the variables of coping behaviour influence an individual’s resilience whenever a stressful circumstance occurs. The research was quantitative in nature. Ways of Coping Questionnaire WCQ and Occupational Stress Index OSI were used for data collection. WCQ consists of eight coping scales namely, confrontive coping, distancing, self-controlling, seeking social support, accepting responsibility, escape avoidance, planful problem solving and positive reappraisal. OSI have twelve subscales, i.e., role overload, role ambiguity, role conflict, unreasonable group and political pressure, responsibility for persons, under participation, powerlessness, poor peer relations, intrinsic impoverishment, low status, strenuous working condition and unprofitability. A sample of 112 management trainees having six months experience was taken. Results reveal that adaptive coping was most commonly used by the respondent. As expected, significant relationship was found among most of the variables.
Studies in man and cat of the significance of the H wave1

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Private Brands: Major Brand Perspective

Describes the problems that major brand suppliers face in the context of the growing attractiveness of private brands to the retailer and the consumer. Discusses the factors contributing to this growth. Describes the roles that private brands perform for the retailer. Offers model for the retailer′s decision whether or not to adopt a private brand. Offers supplier options. Delineates management implications.
Policy Learning in Local Government: The Role of Reflexive Leadership

The paper addresses three interrelated issues in policy learning, based on survey data from a representative sample of all Norwegian councillors. The authors ask: What characterizes the policy learning behaviour of local councillors? This issue is addressed through data on what councillors find to be useful information sources in their capacities as decision-makers and agenda-setters. The paper documents three policy-learning profiles: cosmopolitans (who draw largely on external sources of information), locals (who draw on internal sources), and party loyalists (who draw on party sources). The authors also ask if policy-learning profiles make a difference to councillors as decision-makers and agenda-setters. The paper documents that cosmopoli-
Lunchtime! Next Steps for Farm to School Programs in Oregon

Farm to school programs connect schools with local farmers, ranchers and fishermen to bring fresh, locally produced products into school cafeterias. These programs have the potential to support sustainable agriculture, keep money in the local economy, and provide students with healthy, nutritious food. Despite these benefits, developing farm to school programs requires overcoming sizeable barriers including price, procurement, distribution, delivery, and lack of adequate kitchen facilities. The purpose of this project was to investigate current food purchasing practices in Oregon schools including an assessment of cafeteria facilities, popular meals, and desired food products in order to provide the information needed to expand and institutionalize farm to school programs througout the state.
DISSERTAÇÃO DE MESTRADO EM MARKETING Perspectiva de um fornecedor de serviços de marketing sobre a criação

Júri: Presidente: Doutor João José Quelhas Mesquita Mota, professor associado com agregação do Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa; Vogais: Doutora Maria Cristina de Assis Sales Pinto Baptista, professora auxiliar do Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração de Lisboa; Doutor José Manuel Cristóvão Veríssimo, professor auxiliar do Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa; Mestre Maria Eduarda Mariano Agostinho Soares, assistente convidada do Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.
Determinants of Capital and R&D Intensive Foreign Direct Investment

We study the determinants of capital intensity and technology content of foreign direct investment. For this we use sectoral industry data on U.S. foreign investment abroad, and data on host countries’ institutional characteristics, like protection of property rights, labor standards and constitutional arrangements. In our regressions we find that better protection of property rights has a significant positive effect on R&D but not on capital intensive capital flows. There is evidence that an increase in workers’ bargaining power results in a reduction of capital and technologically intensive foreign investment. And although the evidence with respect to constitutional arrangements is not very strong, presidential regimes appear to be less able, than parliamentary ones, in delivering policies that attract R&D intensive capital flows. This is consistent with recent research on the effects of constitutional arrangements on economic growth.
Study on the risk elusion of brand extension in business startups

Because of the severe competition of business startups, numerous enterprises have realized the importance of the brand, so a lot of enterprises place brand construction and brand protection in an important place. When brand has become famous in the market, how to use brand asset has become a problem that enterprises should take the first consideration. Brand extension is a developing strategy in which an enterprise protects or expands its market share. But brand extension is a two-edged sword. Inappropriate extension cannot help to launch new products or business and may even dilute the core brand. In recent years, many successful enterprises integrate brand asset, adopting brand extension strategy to extend their market. Under this background, it is very important to explore and research brand extension's operating mode and how to evade the risks in brand extension. This paper focuses on the overview of brand and brand extension and points out the meaning of brand extension. It introduces the current operating modes of brand extension and analyzes the condition of brand extension and the principles which affect the enterprises in executing brand extension successfully. The missteps and risks of brand extension are put forward. It will give the enterprises an available reference on how to evade the wrong brand extension.
Equivalent circuit modeling of dual channel vertical strained SiGe impact ionization MOSFET (DC-VESIMOS)

The dual channel of VESIMOS (DC-VESIMOS) have been analyzed using the Silvaco TCAD tools whereas the equivalent circuit modeling of DC-VESIMOS have been analyzed using the ORCAD PSPICE software. Strained SiGe technology is introduced because it is believed that it is able to lower down the high supply voltage that are needed by vertical and planar IMOS. A single channel of VESIMOS is proposed to solve the problem. Next, the dual channel of VESIMOS is invented to increase the performance of the device in carrier mobility besides lowering the supply voltage. In contrast, the device has better performance in carrier mobility rather than by using a single channel of the SiGe layer in the VESIMOS structure [21]. The structure is referred from the vertical IMOS [13] that has been proposed to solve problems from planar IMOS. In addition, the equivalent circuit model of the vertical IMOS structure is studied to describe the behavioral characteristic of the device with respect to its terminals which is MOSFET and Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT). The device modeling of vertical IMOS is done and it is shown that the vertical IMOS works in three different modes which is a Conventional MOSFET (CMOS), Impact Ionization (II) and Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) modes. The dual channel device modeling is then simulated; the PSPICE simulation gives the same ION/IOFF ratio with the TCAD simulation which is 1013μA/μm. Besides that, the analysis of subthreshold slope shows that the performance analysis is 86.79% with the TCAD simulation.
Determinants and Effects of the Use of ″Made in″ Labels

Selected empirical findings on the effects of a product′s “made‐in” label are integrated with theoretical developments in consumer information processing and the economics of consumer search. The result is an internally consistent theory of how country‐of‐origin effects vary across situations, individuals and products. The new perspective explains why country stereotyping influences decisions more among well‐informed buyers and dismisses the idea that country‐of‐origin cues are necessarily misleading or bad. It also generates predictions of when country‐of‐origin effects are greater and when they are smaller.
Facial Emotion Recognition Using Context Based Multimodal Approach

Emotions play a crucial role in person to person interaction. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in improving all aspects of interaction between humans and computers. The ability to understand human emotions is desirable for the computer in several applications especially by observing facial expressions. This paper explores a ways of humancomputer interaction that enable the computer to be more aware of the user�s emotional expressions we present a approach for the emotion recognition from a facial expression, hand and body posture. Our model uses multimodal emotion recognition system in which we use two different models for facial expression recognition and for hand and body posture recognition and then combining the result of both classifiers using a third classifier which give the resulting emotion . Multimodal system gives more accurate result than a signal or bimodal system
Effectiveness of Chlorhexidine oral decontamination in reducing the incidence of ventilator associated pneumonia: A meta-analysis.

Background and Purpose: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is an important nosocomial infection worldwide, which leads to increased length of hospital stay, healthcare costs and mortality. Evidence on oral decontamination with antiseptic in reducing VAP is limited. Hence, a meta-analysis was performed to determine the effect of chlorhexidine oral decontamination in the reduction of VAP in mechanically ventilated patients Methods : An extensive literaturereview was conducted using the following databases: CINAHL, MEDLINE, Joanna Briggs Institute, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, CENTRAL, and the Google search engine. Retrieved articles were selected based on the methodological quality, inclusion criteria and analysed to find the pooled effect size. Results : The nine trials included in this meta-analysis revealed a significant reduction in the incidence of VAP among patients who received prophylactic oral decontamination with Chlorhexidine. However no significant effect was found in reducing overall mortality rate among the mechanically ventilated patients. Conclusion : The safety profile regarding the possible selection and induction of antibiotic resistance and presumed cost benefits of Chlorhexidine make it a highly attractive intervention for the prevention of VAP. This meta-analysis indicated that chlorhexidine can serve as a cost-effective and safe antiseptic in preventing VAP in mechanically ventilated patients.
Empirical Study of the Influence of Consumer Relationship Proneness on Customer Loyalty in Service Context

Consumer relationship proneness (CRP) reflects a consumer’s relatively stable and conscious tendency to engage in relationships. This study takes CRP as an important consumer individual trait and examines the influence of CRP on customer loyalty in service environment from perspective of relational benefits (i.e. confidence benefits, social benefits, special treatment benefits). Concept model is proposed to explain the influence. Then SEM (structural equation modeling) is used to analyze the data collected from online survey to test the proposed model. Empirical results show that CRP has direct influence on customer loyalty. The results also show that CRP indirectly relates to customer loyalty via its impact on perceived confidence benefits and social benefits. This study deepens the understanding about the importance of CRP and provides insights into development and implement of customer relationship management and relationship marketing for service enterprises.
Disclosure and Corporate Governance in Developing Countries: Evidence from India

The paper uses disclosure scores to examine corporate governance practices of Indian listed companies. A content analysis of 29 listed companies has been carried out and a disclosure index developed to determine the level of disclosure by the companies. This study finds that the disclosure level among Indian companies is quite high (disclosing almost 73% of the items in the index). The findings of the research will add to the increasingly inadequate literature relating to corporate governance in developing countries. However this research is limited because it focuses on only the largest 29 companies listed on the BSE. The study is important because of the recent flow of international capital into developing countries as a result of World Bank and IMF led economic restructurings. Due to these, transparency and disclosure have gained increased impetus. There is thus the need to understand corporate governance practices in the developing world.
SRG3 Interacts Directly with the Major Components of the SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complex and Protects Them from Proteasomal Degradation*

The mammalian SWI/SNF complex is an evolutionarily conserved ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complex that consists of nine or more components. SRG3, a murine homologue of yeast SWI3, Drosophila MOIRA, and human BAF155, is a core component of the murine SWI/SNF complex required for the regulation of transcriptional processes associated with development, cellular differentiation, and proliferation. Here we report that SRG3 interacts directly with other components of the mammalian SWI/SNF complex such as SNF5, BRG1, and BAF60a. The SWIRM domain and the SANT domain were required for SRG3-SNF5 and SRG3-BRG1 interactions, respectively. In addition, SRG3 stabilized SNF5, BRG1, and BAF60a by attenuating their proteasomal degradation, suggesting its general role in the stabilization of the SWI/SNF complex. Such a stabilization effect of SRG3 was not only observed in the in vitro cell system, but also in cells isolated from SRG3 transgenic mice or knock-out mice haploinsufficient for the Srg3 gene. Taken together, these results suggest the critical role of SRG3 in the post-transcriptional stabilization of the major components of the SWI/SNF complex.