The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and the Investment Company Institute (ICI) have been collaborating for the past two years to collect data on participants in 401(k) plans. This effort, known as the EBRI/ICI Participant-Directed Retirement Plan Data Collection Project, has obtained data for 401(k) plan participants from certain of EBRI and ICI sponsors and members serving as plan r...

Investing is a very profitable activity if it carried out properly and correctly based on the right considerations, but investing can not only have good impact also bad because of errors in seeing ability company to analyze important things related impact. continued operation company, decisions investment are be detrimental, likened two interrelated coins so necessary know several factors compa...

In this paper we provide a new insight of the previous work of Grosen and Jørgensen [2002]. More precisely, firstly, we investigate the impact of regulatory authorities’ rules on the fair value of company’s liabilities and assets. We study how to choose regulation intervention levels in order to control the shortfall probability of the issuing company. The fact that the regulation rule depends ...

todays, the parent company has a great role in managing and monitoring subsidiaries and companies in promoting their industrial activities. but, the main problem for pharmaceutical parent companies is the lack of clarity and confusion of responsibilities between units. successful parenting needs to create the element of 'fit' between the ways parent operates – parent characteristics –...

In this paper the issues of Ukrainian new three-level pension system are discussed. First, the paper presents the mathematical model that allows calculating the optimal size of contributions to the non-state pension fund. Next, the non-state pension fund chooses an Asset Management Company. To do so it is proposed to use an approach based on Kohonen networks to classify asset management compani...

In April 2007, the Spanish optical company indo Internacional was facing a renewal decision of the mobility solution for its eyeglasses division’s sales force. Initially, the company was seeking to implement a solution that would allow to look up inventories in real time. One of the potential providers offers to extend the functionality with a virtual catalog, which would allow the company to e...

New start-up companies, which are considered to be a vital ingredient in a successful economy, have a different objective than established companies. They want to maximise their chance of long-term survival. We examine the implications for their operating decisions of this different criterion by considering an abstraction of the inventory problem faced by a start-up manufacturing company. The p...

The main purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding, within the field of corporate entrepreneurship, of the various factors that enable technology entrepreneurship in established firms and its principal effects on customers and society. The paper reports on a case study regarding technology entrepreneurship in a Spanish company whose activity is pharmaceutical distribution. This compa...

This paper considers the choices a company faces in purchasing intermediate goods for production. It examines the case of the Royal African Company for which there is detailed purchase data available for 1672-1699. Empirical analysis indicated that the company purchased from more suppliers when it had higher demands, and purchased relatively more from a supplier with whom it had a longer relati...

The name “Foreign Direct Investment” usually brings to mind a significant contribution of FDI to domestic investment. However, there has been a lot of skepticism concerning the contribution of inward FDI to domestic investment. As noted by Froot (1993), FDI (the purchase by a domestic resident of a controlling stake in a foreign company) actually requires neither capital flows nor investment in...