THE ROLE OF COACHING IN ENHANCING EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE
Strategies for Building Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainability Within Law Enforcement
Socioeconomic Effects of Village Loan Savings Initiatives on Empowering Rural Communities (A Case Study of the Impact of VlS Program in T/A Chimwala, Malawi.)
Measuring Customer Satisfaction of Hotel Industry in Bangladesh: A SERVQUAL and Structural Equation Model (SEM) Approach
Perceptions of Climate Change and Barriers to Adaptation along the Teesta River in Bangladesh.
Efficiency Analysis of Commercial Banks in India: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis
A Study on Factors Influencing Youngsters’ Perceptions towards Choice of Investment Avenues
A Study of Generic Intertextuality in Corporate Press Releases
A Study on Factors Affecting Purchase Decision of Young Adults after GST Implementation in India – With Special Reference to FMCG Products
A Review of Commercial Banks’ Role in Public Sector Transparency and Accountability in the Nigerian Economy
Soft Systems Modelling of the New Product Development Process - A Case Study
An Emerging Training Model for Successful Lean Manufacturing – An Empirical Study
A Qualitative Performance Measurement Approach to New Product Development
Brand Power Through Effective Design
Intellectual Venture Capitalists: An Emerging Breed of Knowledge Entrepreneurs
The world financial markets changed forever the morning of September 18, 2008, with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers as almost US$700,000,000,000 (an ironic number) of outstanding debt instruments became lodged in regulatory cement. The flow of capital is the life blood of any and all financial transactions, without which the entire global machine comes to a screeching and irrevocable halt. There may be intent and desire to make new capital commitments, as well as to close existing contracts, but without this flow financial inertia sets in. Was this an unavoidable black swan or a simple example of excessive greed fueled by exponential leverage and the lack of adequate internal and/or external oversight? This paper: 1. examines past financial disasters including the savings and loan debacle of the 1980’s and the hubristic experience of Long Term Capital Management in the late 1990’s 2. discusses the causes and possible solutions to the current financial crisis in the US; 3. attempts to better understand the role of those with a vested interest including regulatory bodies; and 4. analyzes their effect on the financial markets.
This article provides a review of the securitization instruments in the context of the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008. The decreasing housing prices in the U.S. caused the increasing mortgage defaults and the increasing mortgage defaults caused this subprime mortgage crisis and this crisis is exploded by securitization instruments (e.g., CDS) which are just too complex to see their risks. This article will provide a specific classification of securitization instruments and distinguishes between two main classes of securitization instruments. The first classes are mortgage-backed security (MBS), asset-backed security (ABS), asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) and cash-flow collateralized debt obligation (CDO).The second category of securitization instruments includes credit default swap (CDS) and synthetic collateralized debt obligation (synthetic CDO). Finally, this article ends with a short discussion of the roles of the credit rating agency (CRA) in the financial crisis.
In knowledge driven economies, it is imperative that human beings be recognized as an integral part of the total worth of an organization. In order to estimate and project the worth of the human capital, Human Resource Accounting (HRM) which denotes the process of quantification and measurement of the Human Resource Capital in an organisation is employed.
This empirical study examines the experience of a central bank of a developing country, Bank of Thailand, in operating foreign exchange intervention during the period of persistent appreciation of its currency in 2001-2007. Bank of Thailand has resorted to various tools, specifically foreign exchange intervention of outright spot transactions (buying US dollar/selling Thai baht) and sell/buy swaps (selling US dollar/buying baht spot and buying US dollar/selling baht forward), capital flow management, and sterilization operation to dampen rapid baht appreciation and stabilize its domestic economy. Prolonged foreign exchange intervention results in rapid increases in foreign exchange reserves and forward obligations of US dollar buying, especially during 2006-2007 when the size of intervention is unprecedented. This massive accumulation of foreign exchange reserves and net forward position could jeopardize the Bank of Thailand’s balance sheet as taking long position in depreciation-prone currency, the US dollar, may incur foreign exchange loss when baht appreciates substantially. In the world of increasing financial integration, mitigating exchange rate volatility at the same time of stabilizing domestic economy has become a great challenge to the monetary authorities of developing countries. The experience of Thailand provides a case study of how a small and open economy manages its exchange rates to contain the risks that come with global capital flows while maintaining internal stability.
The e-banking post-adoption in the financial institutions is a very important phase that follows the one of the adoption. This recent phase for emerging countries like Tunisia permits us to clear the adoption effects on performance. A conceptual framework and an empirical study performed on 7 Tunisian banks indicate a significant relationship between the post-adoption and five measurements of the organizational performance measurements: the service quality improvement, the costs reduction, the new market acquirement, the new products offer, and performing of the relation with the customers.
This paper studies the importance of agility in today's business environment. We propose a new business model "a virtual enterprise" (VE) and since the success of VE depends of intensive information sharing we propose a supporting software solution for business network. The research work is conducted via case study in real life business network, which consist of several small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and one focal company. The case study describes the design and implementation of agent-based inter-organisational system (IOS), which enables maximum effectiveness, efficiency and productivity of supply chain network.