Many countries strive to attract foreign direct investments due to the benefits it often brings into the economy. FDI increases productivity, managerial skills, technology transfer, international networks of production, access to external markets, and reduces unemployment. According to Denisia (2010), FDI achieves economic spillovers, leading to economic growth that impacts on other national investments. It also provides advanced technologies that help local firms. This paper […]

Organizational culture change is considered largely as having an effect on organizations’ capacity to effectively execute strategy. This document represents an integration of literature regarding culture and strategic change, along with identifying cultural aspects and variables that influence strategic implementation linked to organizational change. Evidently, the firm’s cultural orientations have been known to possess a key impact on the effectual human resources and, therefore, must […]

According to Tiffan, (2009), people are labeled as difficult if they show one of various characteristics. People are labeled as difficult if they show qualities of passive aggressiveness, incompetent, negative, argumentative, arrogant or any combination of these characteristics. An arrogant person may also be argumentative. Also, negative people may be passive aggressive. Difficult people make a significant impact in an organization. They may prevent customer […]

Podcast: Research developments Derived from https://www.nichd.nih.gov/news/releases/Documents/NICHD_Research_Dvlpmts_032414.mp3 The podcast involves a study that has been carried out to determine the weight at which children can be predicted to be heading towards childhood obesity. The research found that more children who were overweight at the age of 5 later on became obese by the time they reached grade 8 than those who had normal weight. The research […]

Question 1 The two parties may enter into a collateral contract which will serve to show that the first contract exists. Question 2 The police are experts in protection. They therefore know how much protection is sufficient for a certain situation. The business owner’s request to have more protection than would be found necessary by the police binds him to pay for it. The excess […]

During current decades, the extension of microfinance services towards the poor families along with micro-entrepreneurs has developed to become a worldwide industry. Till lately, donations and subsidies formed the major source of financing for microfinance institutions (MFIs). Presently, however, the expansion of the industry and the demands by donors regarding financial sustainability has pressed MFIs to refer to international capital markets. Furthermore, most individuals regard […]

The lean thinking method is used to reduce waste while organizing processes that are complex to encourage production. There has been increasing interest to apply the principles of lean thinking in healthcare rather than letting it remain in the manufacturing sector for which it was initially created. Healthcare institutions that use this method are those that focus on time imperative, complex care. History/Development Lean thinking […]

The article National Culture and International Differences in the Cost of Equity by Gray, Kang and Yoo (2013) sought to investigate if equity capital is influenced by factors of national culture. Specific factors of culture that were investigated included the cultural values, beliefs, religion, and social groups. The article argues that determining factors that determine cost of equity is important for various reasons. First, the […]

The lean thinking method is used to reduce waste while organizing processes that are complex to encourage production. There has been increasing interest to apply the principles of lean thinking in healthcare rather than letting it remain in the manufacturing sector for which it was initially created. Healthcare institutions that use this method are those that focus on time imperative, complex care. History/Development Lean thinking […]

Google the internet search giant in recent times has faced a lot opposition including many legal cases due to its privacy breach. Informed by unraveling the reasons behind these many controversies, court battles and huge fines paid, my study seeks to unravel the reasons behind them. This will be attained by answering a number of questions, firstly, does Google when inform users when collecting their […]