Case Study on Entrepreneurship: Larry Page

Business Analysis

The Boundaryless Career: Modern Contemperory Perspective on Career

Human Resource Management

Concepts of Throughput Accounting and Theory of Constraints

Financial Management

Kaizen – Understanding the Japanese Business Philosophy of Continuous Improvement

Operations Management

Role of Leaders in Shaping Organizational Culture

Management Principles

Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India

Goods and Services Tax (GST) is part of the proposed tax reforms that centre round evolving an efficient consumption tax system in the country. Presently, there are parallel systems of indirect taxation at the central and state levels. In the Union Budget for the year 2006-2007, Finance Minister proposed that India should move towards national level Goods and Services Tax that should be shared between the Centre and the States. He proposed to set April 1, 2010 as the date for introducing the goods and service tax (GST). Goods and Services Tax is proposed to be an indirect tax levied on manufacture, sale and consumption of goods and services at a national level concurrently by Central and State Governments. This Integration of goods and services taxation would end the distortions of differential taxation treatments of manufacturing and service sector. The Central and State governments both charge a multitude of indirect Continue reading

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Advertising Mediums – Types and Selection Criteria

A manufacturer or a trader can make use of the following advertising media to spread his message to the people : (i) Press advertising, (ii) Outdoor advertising, (iii) Film advertising, (iv) Radio advertising, (v) Television advertising, (vi) Direct mail advertising, (vii) Display advertising, and (viii) Speciality advertising: The merits and demerits of these media are discussed below. 1. Press Advertising or Print Media Press advertising, i.e advertising through newspapers, magazines, journals, etc. is commonly used by modern businessmen- It may be noted that advertising is an important source of finance for the press or print media. Because of advertisements, the subscribers get newspapers and periodicals at subsidized rates. Newspaper Advertising. Newspaper reading is a common habit among most of the educated people. Besides daily newspapers, there are bi-weekly and weekly newspapers also Newspapers reach almost every place and are read by all kinds of people. Therefore, newspaper can be used Continue reading

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Strategy Change Cycle: An Effective Strategic Planning Approach

A strategic change cycle is mainly utilized to correlate the planning process of an organization with the vision, mission and values of an organization. This implies that an organization should focus developing its strategies that may assist it to accomplish its long run vision. This will assist the organization in managing the entire organization in a strategic manner in order to gain a sustained growth in the future.  The key objective of the strategic change cycle is to make sure that the organization continues to provide maximum value to the stakeholders by undertaking the right strategies at the right time. With the help of the strategic change cycle, the organization should also ensure that a proper vigilance is kept on the internal and external environment to understand the future challenges and opportunities. Hence, this is one of the key concepts that may assist an organization to gain success. 10 Steps Continue reading

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Options to Raise Capital for Startup Business

Why Capital is Required to Entrepreneurs? Business are primarily done for the sake to earn profit and secondly to satisfy the demand other customer, both the objective are reciprocal of each other because of the business does not fulfill the demands of the customer then it could never be able to earn profits and if it could be able to fulfill the demands of the customers then sometime positively the entrepreneur has to raise the capital in the business to med the market ends by fulfilling the demands and supplied of the market to balance the business activities but it is more difficult for the entrepreneur to raise capital at the eleventh hour, therefore, he has to evaluate the business position in all the respect and as well as the market conditions. At Increasing the Volume of Sale and Production:  When the sales and the production demands rise from the Continue reading

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Analysis of Resource Based View of Strategy

The relationship between firm’s resources and performance are always the crucial area of interest in strategic management. Resource based view (RBV) highlights the internal environment of the firm in crafting strategy to accomplish a sustainable competitive advantage in it.  Resource in RBV can be defined in an extremely broad way. Concepts like dynamic capabilities, entrepreneurship and management are usually regarded as strategic resources. Similarly, RBV also has been defined as stocks of available factors that are owned and controlled by the firm, these factors can be classified into physical, reputational, organizational, financial, human intellectual and technological, which are transformed into final products or services efficiently and effectively. Resource Based View can be treat as the ‘best’ strategy route in the development of a firm strategy, because RBV analyze and explain resources of the firms to grasp how organizations accomplish sustainable competitive advantage. In addition, Resource Based View centralize on the Continue reading

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Structural Design of Multinational Enterprises(MNEs)

Organizational structure gives the framework or lines of communication, authority, responsibility and accountability. Organizational structure specifies the firm’s reporting relationships, procedures, controls and authority and decision processes. It is a critical component of effective strategy implementation process. Organizational structure provides for specialization and interfaces among specializations for collaborative synergism and competitive dynamism. For Multinational Enterprises(MNEs) deciding the organization structure is very important because it cannot be the same for all units and at the same time cannot be just one design for all. Whatever the design, it must be organic enough to adapt to situations. The structure must have stability to facilitate day to day activities to go on consistently and flexibility to facilitate taking advantage of opportunities that environment throws up. While it is becoming true that form must follow function, there are some traditional/ classical organizational structures that are followed; besides new structures are experimented with.  Multinational Enterprises(MNEs) Continue reading

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