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The Role of Logistics
Information and Communication Technologies in Promoting Competitive
Advantages of the Firm
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Susana Garrido Azevedo and João Ferreira
In
the 21st century, with rapid growth of technology, economic
society and life have changed significantly. Promoting competitive
advantages has become the most important issue for firms in
this rapidly changing and uncertain business environment.
Many researches have pointed out that the adoption of technology
is the most important tool for firms to maintain their competitive
advantages.
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2008 The Icfai University Press. All Rights Reserved.
A
Short Note on Joint Welfare Maximization Assumption
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Dritan Osmani and Richard S J Tol
Non-cooperative
game theoretical models of International Environmental Agreements
(lEAs) use the assumption that coalition of signatories maximizes
their joint welfare. In this paper, the joint maximization
assumption is compared to different welfare sharing schemes
such as Shapley value, Nash bargaining solution and consensus
value. The results show that the joint welfare maximization
assumption is similar to the Nash bargaining solution.
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2008 The Icfai University Press. All Rights Reserved.
An
Analysis of the Performance of SSIs in the Era of Globalization
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Babita Dosajh and Bharti Gandhi
Small
Scale Industries (SSIs) have a significant role to play in
the socioeconomic upliftment of developing countries like
India. The SSIs occupy a unique position in the Indian economy
for its contribution towards value-addition, employment generation,
expansion of entrepreneurial base, and also for the diversification
of the industrial sector. After independence, the Indian government
recognized the importance of developing SSIs and incorporated
the same in its industrial policy.
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2008 The Icfai University Press. All Rights Reserved.
Relationship
Financing for Start-ups: An Empirical Analysis of Different
Investor Types --
Dorothea Schäfer and Dirk Schilder
Start-ups
often lack certain knowledge and skills and are in the need
of external assistance. If this external help is combined
with capital we can talk about relationship financing or smart
capital. In a heterogeneous financial system such as the one
in Germany, which type of financier supplies `true' smart
capital to entrepreneurs, is still an open question. To answer
this question, a survey was conducted among 85 German suppliers
of start-up finance. The results show that all types of financiers
deliver some sort of smart capital. However, the levels of
information flows within a financing relationship vary strongly
between the different investors.
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2008 The Icfai University Press. All Rights Reserved.
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