Acknowledgements 14 Executive Summary Industry experts have debated the end state of convergence between traditional (regulated) investment managers and hedge fund managers for years. Perspectives vary about whether competition, regulation, portfolio allocation trends, and market events will eventually push traditional investment managers and hedge funds towards common ground. Those who do beli...

This paper reports the results of a survey of attitudes of commercial fanners and supply cooperative managers about agricultural supply cooperatives. Cooperative managers and fann­ ers frequently made significantly different responses to questionnaire statements. With a few exceptions, fann size and fanner age did not appear to influence perceptions about supply cooperatives. "",nether a fanner...

The tax plays important role in the growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). In the low-income country like Tanzania, role of SMEs is critical in pushing the socio-economic development agenda of the country further. Therefore, alignment of the taxsystem to the environment specific SME growth needs can be considered an important agenda for the policy makers. Keeping this issue at focus, th...

background: in every organization, productivity is considerably related with organizational knowledge, experience, creativity, and skills. therefore, an organization must develop training programs to extract and supply individual, occupational, and organizational needs. this case study described the management performance promotion plan in the iranian ministry of health and medical education (m...

Based on the current economic environment and from perspective of dynamic capability, this paper divides big data analysis capability into perception capture transformation supply chain ambidexterity agility adaptability. A questionnaire survey was used to quantify impact (BDAC) elasticity (SC-RE). total 300 questionnaires were distributed managers nodes enterprises, 217 valid obtained. The reg...

BACKGROUND The cornerstone of the health system in Zimbabwe, the district health system has been under the responsibility of the district health executive since 1984. Preliminary information obtained from some provincial health managers in Midlands Province suggested a poor performance by most district health executives. We therefore investigated the reasons for this poor performance. METHODS...

Performance pay, at least as usually understand, is no good idea for non-executive directors. They have to supervise and control or in some situations even to fire and replace the executive managers. This means that their performance as supervisors is totally different from the performance of the supervised executive managers and even the company at large. Moreover, they are mostly interested i...