Vol. 10(9) September 2017
The Shanghai Edge
Geib Peter and Swenson James
The aim of this study is to show how Shanghai has shaped
its identity by creating an environment of innovation and economic advance. The
leadership of Shanghai has long been recognized as exceptional particularly in areas
of business, economics, trade and finance. At the same time Shanghai leadership
has been recently seeking to create a strong culture of entrepreneurial innovation
particularly in areas of science and technology. This effort focuses on the conscious
strategy of creating economic freedom and opportunity, risk orientation, diversity
and empowerment. These factors are derivatives and an enhancement of the market
reforms initiated in 1978. The Shanghai leadership is creating a new culture to
help China move up the value chain. One central theme of the paper is that when
there is a connection of core values enabling innovation, entrepreneurship can occur.
The historical examples are of Athens, Florence and Silicon Valley. Finally, the
methodology of this paper includes traditional research and several years of on-site
interviews with key influencers in Shanghai. This methodology where it involves
interviews can be described as a focus on the economic and business policy views
of principal stake holders.
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An analytical study on PE, PB and DY ratios of nifty
indices – exploring an investment strategy
Dulababu T.
Many studies are found on fundamental analysis of the
stocks to decide what to buy. Stock index base studies also focus on PE (Price to
Earnings), PB (Price to Book value of the share) and DY (Dividend Yield) ratios.
Research works focused on index PE vis-à-vis Index return and so on. But this study
tries to explore an investment opportunity by analyzing PE, PB and DY of Nifty indices
with respect to Index PE, PB and DY ratios for last six years.
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Effectiveness of CRM strategies in global era (with
special reference to retail markets of India)
Agrawal Kavita
Retailing is an upcoming area in the field of management
research. Though retailing is a concept which is existing during the existence of
the mankind but the concept of unorganized retailing turning to organized one is
not that older a concept. Indian retailing has gone through a drastic change late
nineties after liberalization. The advent of retail market as a more organized form
has given way to a lot of research avenues and of course the human behavior is at
the pivotal of this. It is the main area which is on focus for every researcher.
Consumer has been the most important factor for any retailing activity. In other
words, retailing is always consumer centric and studying the consumer behaviour
is of utmost importance for the retailers, marketers and the researchers. Retailing
has offered the researchers with a lot of key areas to study right from the behavioural
aspects of the customer including consumer expectations, perception, personality,
attitude, lifestyle, preferences, patronage behaviour, shopping motives, shopping
experience and entertainment aspect of shopping to the retailers functional attributes
like retail store attributes, store formats, merchandise management, assortments,
variety, vendor management, display and visual merchandising, ambience and atmospherics,
service quality, store layout and location, store image, branding and promotion,
private labels, retail market strategies, store operations, information technology
in retailing, SCM, CRM and a lot more areas pertaining to the retail research. The
purpose of the study is to examine the impact of globalization on retail sector.
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Management of Social Habits and Environment Pollution
with reference to Maachla Village, Indore District, M.P.
Malviya Shraddha
One of the greatest problems that the world is facing
today is that of environmental pollution increasing with every passing year and
causing grave and irreparable damage to the earth. Environmental pollution consists
of five basic types of pollution namely air, water, soil, noise and light. Air pollution
is caused by the injurious smoke emitted by cars, buses, trucks, trains and factories
namely sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides. Water pollution caused
industrial waste products released into lakes, rivers and other water bodies, has
made marine life no longer hospitable. Humans pollute water with large scale disposal
of garbage, flowers, ashes and household waste. Noise pollution includes aircraft
noise, noise of cars, buses and trucks, vehicle horns, loudspeakers and industry
noise as well as high-intensity sonar effects which are extremely harmful for the
environment. Soil pollution which can also be called soil contamination, is a result
of acid rain, polluted water, fertilizers etc. leading to bad crops. Light pollution
includes light trespass, overillumination and astronomical interference. Management
of all these problem is a must to save Earth.
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