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...

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...

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strategic alliance promotes enterprise resources sharing and enhances the competitiveness of the marketplace. therefore, finding a mutually beneficial partner to make a strategic alliance is an important issue for various industries. the aim of this paper is to propose a suitable method based on grey theory and data envelopment analysis (dea). a method predicts future business and measure opera...

presence of risks and uncertainties inherent in project development and implementation playssignificant role in poor project performance. thus, there is a considerable need to have an effective riskanalysis approach in order to assess the impact of different risks on the project objectives. a powerful riskanalysis approach may consider dynamic nature of risks throughout the life cycle of the pr...

drilling industry provides a significant potential for occupational health risks. thus, health-related hazards (chemical, physical, ergonomic and biological) must be recognized, evaluated and controlled in order to prevent occupational illnesses which come from exposure to them. for these, a good occupational health risk assessment needs to be applied. risk assessment monitors risks and provide...

aims: several methods have been used for textile wastewater treatment. the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of rosa damascena watering waste ash for cod and color removal from textile wastewater.  materials & methods: rose watering waste was gathered from one of the kashan processing plants. the raw wastewater sample was taken from one of the textile industries in kashan country...

This paper analyses business models of software firms. The underlying framework comprises eight variables derived from a comprehensive software industry business model conceptualisation. Using this framework, we classify the business models of the global top 100 software firms based on their annual reports. Then, we run clustering algorithms in order to identify business model patterns. Cluster...

System defects and policy-related exclusion in the development and utilization of energy resources bring the problem of rich poverty to energy and chemical industry base in Northern Shaanxi. The long existence of the rich poverty problem of energy and chemical industry base in Northern Shaanxi forms deep-seated constraints to the sustainable development of energy economy in Northern Shaanxi and...