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maintain and enhance the quality of human resources and achieve maximum value from it industry employees is the most important concern of managers. most of researches in this area focus on companies’ endeavour to recruiting qualified experts in the it industry in the next decade. the selection of qualified personnel for organizations which focus on human resouces as a strength, will be a major ...

The performance of Indian railways in the nineteenth century provides a great context to study the effects of state ownership on productivity and other aspects of operations. We rely on a key feature of the institutional background whereby the Government of India purchased a majority ownership stake in private railways at predetermined dates set by contracts negotiated decades before the compan...

During the late 70's and early 80's in Mexico, as in the rest of Latin-America, sanitary policies were directed to support the growth of the private sector of health care at the expense of the public sector. This work analyzes the evolution of the health insurance market as a part of the privatization process of health care. The analysis based on economic data, provides the political profile be...

Owner-managers of private companies are often highly underdiversified. We investigate the consequences of underdiversification at the company level. Information on US companies and their owner-managers is obtained from the Survey of Consumer Finances and the Survey of Small Business Finances. Underdiversification, measured as the share of the owner-manager’s net worth invested in the company, h...

We test whether the well-documented high returns of private equity sponsors result from wealth transfers from other financial claimants and counterparties, or from a focus on short-term profits at the expense of long-term value. Bondholders and buyers of private equity portfolio companies represent the two potential sources of wealth transfers. Yet, we find that public companies benefit when th...

Food fortification offers an affordable, convenient, and effective mechanism to improve the nutrition status of large segments of a population. However, the success of fortification has been less than public-health professionals and private-sector companies alike have hoped for, though often for different reasons. As new opportunities are available, success will be dictated by the ability of pu...

As with any important policy decision, the question of mandated disclosure for private equity must weigh potential benefits against costs implementation. At 2022 Private Equity Research Symposium hosted by Oxford University, Oxford's Ludovic Phalippou and UNC-Chapel Hill's Gregory Brown debated merits greater financial reporting companies. Phalippou's arguments in favor more center on lack alig...

Networked computer technology for business purposes is no longer a domain of companies alone. The Internet has invaded private homes and is becoming a communication interface between private parties (e.g. personal E-Mail), companies (E-Commerce) and the government (EGovernment). The pervasion of the "virtual world" triggers government agencies to think about their role in setting a proper socia...