Background/Purpose: ‘Growth’ is the aim and goal of any company – be it a startup or conglomerate. Of late, retail industry growing steadily, especially in field e-retailing. Reliance Industries which came into Retail business 2006 has seen rapid consistent success its growth. This due to an assortment contributing factors worth discussing. Objective: To observe growth saga review that helped t...

The Miocene hominoid and Plio-Pleistocene hominid vertebral record is poor. In 1994, a complete atlas of a hominoid was found in breccia at Berg Aukas in Namibia. Its age was estimated to be middle Miocene (13 myr) on the basis of microfauna. This locality yielded the holotype of Otavipithecus namibiensis and the atlas could belong to the same genus. The specimen exhibits clear hominoid traits ...

We examine the effect of financial dependence on the acquisition and investment of singlesegment and conglomerate firms at different stages of the industry life cycle. Conglomerates and single-segment firms differ in acquisition activity more than in the level of capital expenditure across all stages. Financial dependence, a deficit in a segment’s internal financing, decreases the likelihood of...