the study attempts to find out the impact of buyback announcement on share price. paired sample t-test is employed to compare share price before and after the buyback announcement. the analysis of variance is also used to find out whether there is any significant difference among industries in the price change due to buyback announcement. the study is carried out from 1st january 2005 to 31st d...

current study aims to prioritize four-star hotels through atwo-step procedure: firstly, classifying service quality dimensions (sqds)based on importance-performance analysis and secondly prioritizinghotels based on classified sqds analysing the results. to reach that aim,the customers of three 4-star hotels were considered and asked to statethe quality of the service they expected to receive pr...

During the last decades, international trade flows especially of the industrialized countries allegedly became more and more intra-industry. At the same time, employment perspectives particularly of the low-skilled by tendency deteriorated in these countries. This phenomenon is often traced back to the fact that intra-industry trade, which should theoretically involve low labor market adjustmen...

In a modern economy each branch of economic activity is inter-linked with other branches of activity. Measuring any one sector of an economy therefore usually involves drawing more or less arbitrary boundaries around that sector. This problem is particularly acute in relation to the food industry. Varying definitions of that industry are in common usage, so that any attempt to measure the size ...

This research is focused on Taiwanese semiconductor industries to explore the impacts of supplier capability and partnership on organizational competitive advantages, in the hope of providing organizations with the key factors to competitive advantages for them to manage competitive challenges and to continue organization’s vitality. This study is first referring to relevant literatures to iden...