an empirical study of indian small and medium enterprises

... and financial performance, and develops hypotheses Following that, the third section presents the data and samples as well as variables and their measurement In the fourth section, analyses and ... litigation, and the intangible asset value of the Standard and Poor’s 500 list of Corporations This study demonstrated a significantly positive effect of these two environmental performances on ... environmental performance is a potential source for competitive advantage and following this are improvements in productivity, increased profitability and lower cost of compliance Theoretical and empirical...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2015, 08:42

... characteristics and production costs, output and prices by types of ownership, regions and size of mills • To obtain data on the nature of information and product flow, quality control standards and processes ... search and review of the nature, experiences and lessons of the animal feed industries in other countries, and the role of SMEs in the animal feed sector globally • A study tour to Thailand to ... value chain of the animal feed industry including an assessment of characteristics and costs of production, the nature of information and product flow, quality control standards and processes...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... enhancing the competitiveness of rural small and medium enterprises in the agro-food chain: the case of animal feed Vietnamese Institution Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and ... search and review of the nature, experiences and lessons of the animal feed industries in other countries, and the role of SMEs in the animal feed sector globally • A study tour to Thailand to ... value chain of the animal feed industry including an assessment of characteristics and costs of production, the nature of information and product flow, quality control standards and processes...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... investment by companies in technology and human development • Changing management structure of large domestic companies – e.g from SOE to equitised company • The importance of storage capacity and its ... comparative advantage in the whole value chains (e.g for large and smaller mills) and consider social and environmental issues as well • Poor and out-dated technology used in small mills Lack of credit ... quality and storage (links to maize harvest month) o Cleaning of equipment (rats, contamination) o Accuracy of mix/quality of pellet o Storage of feed products (antioxidants – fats go rancid and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... Production and Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and provincial Departments, relevant staff of the National Institutes of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Research, Vietnam Animal ... Information of the Minister of Agriculture, and relevant staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and provincial Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Animal ... Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, and managers of small- medium enterprises operating in the livestock feed sector Purpose • To report on research findings relating to the competitiveness of small- medium...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... for enhancing the competitiveness of rural small and medium enterprises in the agro-food chain: the case of animal feed Vietnamese Institution Institute of Policy and Strategy Agriculture and Rural ... Objective 2: Understand the role and performance of SMEs in the animal feed sector in other countries • Desk-top literature search and review of the nature, experiences and lessons of the animal feed ... industry including an assessment of characteristics and costs of production, the nature of information and product flow, quality control standards and processes • Compilation of two detailed reports...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... Production and Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and provincial Departments, relevant staff of the National Institutes of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Research, Vietnam Animal ... Information of the Minister of Agriculture, and relevant staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and provincial Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Animal ... Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, and managers of small- medium enterprises operating in the livestock feed sector Purpose • To report on research findings relating to the competitiveness of small- medium...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... firms, less than 200 employees for labor-intensive firms • In general: in Thailand small enterprises have less than 50 employees and medium enterprises have 50 to 200 employees • Small and medium industries ... and with private sector investment focusing on on-farm development and the use of high payoff inputs To increase the value of agricultural produce and hence returns, and to reduce the risks and ... a range of livestock feeds and employs 110 persons The mill has GMP accreditation The Company has other mills and one broiler processing factory By Vietnamese standards this mill and company...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... firms, less than 200 employees for labor-intensive firms • In general: in Thailand small enterprises have less than 50 employees and medium enterprises have 50 to 200 employees • Small and medium industries ... and with private sector investment focusing on on-farm development and the use of high payoff inputs To increase the value of agricultural produce and hence returns, and to reduce the risks and ... a range of livestock feeds and employs 110 persons The mill has GMP accreditation The Company has other mills and one broiler processing factory By Vietnamese standards this mill and company...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... to study the nature of the change and the people who have changed and possibly why they changed, as well as the causes of the change A panel nearly always has greater precision than a set of random ... small holder farm? Uses traditional methods and has

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... costs of production and marketing of animal feed, and will lead to policies that enhance the competitiveness of the sector Objectives and Methodologies 2.1 Objectives  Understanding the role and ... Profitability enterprises of small- medium For overall production, we found that small firms made a loss of 70 VND per kg of output while the medium and large ones made a profit of 120 VND and 100 VND ... which had higher costs of production than large enterprises During 2007, the mean costs of production per kg of output were 8420 VND, 6340 VND and 5380 VND for small, medium and large firms respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20

... Strategic planning Employee Organization Human resource management Information Process management Policy and strategy Standardization Information system Alliances and Development and and data analysis ... (2000) and Bourque and Fielder (1995), the preparation of draft questionnaire helps to reduce the misunderstanding due to the working and languages issues and to enhance the transparency 27 Craig and ... invitation and the questionnaires to the top managements, quality managers, and factory managers purchasing managers who are working in the Vietnamese paint and coating manufacturers and to face and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/07/2014, 13:30

... Gupta and Pawan Pandey, for helping me decide between an enticing industry job offer and a PhD Those who assisted me in the data gathering and entering process – Sumeet Nagdev, Shivajee Dewangan, ... understanding of those needs we are able better to understand what meaning information has in the everyday life of people; and by all of the foregoing we should have a better understanding of the ... sociology (Durkheim’s grand theory of the division of labor – Chatman (1990) and Roger’s (1983) diffusion of innovation theory), mass communication (Katz and Foulekes’ (1962) uses and gratifications...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:07

... AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF DATA MODEL AND QUERY LANGUAGE ON NOVICE USER QUERY PERFORMANCE XIANG LIAN (B.Mgt Wuhan University,China) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ... opportunity to thank Dr Ooi Beng Chin and Dr Huang Zhiyong for all their guidance and caring in both my study and personal life during my stay in the school of computing of NUS My special thanks go to ... an experiment on the effect of data model and query languages on query performance (Chan et al., 1999), as well as the development of new conceptual query languages (Owei and Navathe, 2001) and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/09/2015, 13:21

... discussions and implications, and finally conclusions are drawn in Chapter Chapter Background and Literature Review Background and Literature Review 2.1 Penny Auction and Its Features The process of a ... Burnham et al., 2003) Hannan and Freeman (1984) explain the linkage of structural inertia and organization change using switching costs Their results suggest that even under unpleasant situation customers ... the past surplus and cumulative surplus are motivated by previous literatures of recency and primacy effects (Miller and Campbell 1959; Davelaar et al 2005; Farr 1973; Anderson and Barrios 1961)...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 21:33

... practical and a good forecaster for service quality measurement (Sureshchandar, Rajendran, & Anantharaman, 2002) However, no model can be said to be faultless and SERVQUAL model is not an exemption and ... dependably and accurately 2.5.3 Responsiveness: Willingness to help customers and provide prompt service 2.5.4 Assurance: Knowledge and courtesy of employees and their ability to inspire trust and confidence ... realm and marketers in general (Irani & Hanzaee, 2011) According to (R E Anderson & Srinivasan, 2003), customer satisfaction is an important subject for organizations that desire to create and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2015, 15:38

... equity and debt: An empirical study Journal of Finance, 1982, vol.37, p 121-144 Modigliani, F., and M.H Miller, 1958, The cost of capital, corporate finance and the theory of investment, American ... 75-109 Lang, Ofek and Stulz RM Leverage, investment and firm growth J Finance Econ 1996; vol 40, p 3-29 Leland, Hayne and David Pyle, 1977, Information asymmetrics, financial structure, and financial ... and debt, Review of Financial Studies, Vol 15, p 1-33 Fama and Jensen, 1983, Separation of Ownership and Control, Journal of Law economics Franck B and Usha R.Mittoo (2002) The determinants of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2013, 23:46

... Agrawal A and C.Knoeber (1996),"Firm performance and mechanisms to control agency problems between managers and shareholders", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis,pp 377-397 [4] Angel ... composition:A theory of corporate boards", Joural of Finance and Quantitative Analysis,40,pp 283-306 [38] Raymond K Van-Ness, Paul Miesing and Jaeyoung Kang (2008), "Understanding Governance and corporate ... annually that provides an analysis and assessment of the trends of the past year An annual report can help one to understand the strengths and weaknesses of a certain company's business economy,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2013, 23:50

... On the other hand, all baselines improve, and some of them (SentenceSim precision and perplexity) give better results than both ROUGE and NICOS Of course, no reliable conclusion can be obtained ... joining all the different answers Redundant concepts (e.g “war” and “conflict”) were inspected and collapsed by hand These lists of key concepts constitute the gold standard for the similarity ... similarity metric that cannot distinguish manual and automatic reports cannot be a good metric Then, all we need is an estimation of how well a similarity metric separates manual and automatic reports...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 15:20