the aim of this research was to study those economic barriers influencing foreign investment attraction in iran football industry. the statistical population consisted of all managers and board of directors of the clubs of the premier league, board of directors of football federation and former directors of football (n=240). 148 subjects were selected as the sample by morgan table and completed...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘Commission’’) and its staff (‘‘Commission staff’’ or ‘‘staff’’) are reviewing interpretive issues under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (‘‘Investment Company Act’’ or ‘‘Act’’) relating to the status under the Act of companies that are engaged in the business of acquiring mortgages and mortgage-related instruments and that rely on the exclusion from t...

In this paper we develop a framework for optimal investment decisions for insurance companies under unhedgeable risk. The perspective that we choose is from an insurance company that tries to maximise the stream of dividends paid to its shareholders. The policy instruments that the company has are the dividend policy and the investment policy. The insurance company can continue to pay dividends...

this research explores the effective ways of sales promotion at liability insurance according to upgrade policies in tehran. the goal is development of planning strategic to help iran insurance industry.  first, we evaluate opinions and views of iran insurance company experts and iran insurance sales agents in tehran on sales promotion (also, priority of the promotion policies) of liability ins...

by the U.S. industry, and it is estimated that approximately 80% of this is spent on correcting chronic failure of machines, system and people.” This clearly indicates the pressing need to reduce these non-product investments, and, in particular, maintenance costs in manufacturing facilities. Another important aspect of non-product investment, especially in the automotive industry, is that moni...

Craig Knight, Asia-Pacific Digital Business and Customer Services Manager of Eastman Chemical Company, was given a mandate to sell Eastman’s philosophy for an integrated electronic supply chain, otherwise known as the Integrated System Solution (ISS), to its business partners in the region, and to encourage adoption. Having invested in a state-of-the-art technical architecture that would suppor...

Consider the following "snapshots" in the life of the Hercules Powder Co. of Wilmington, Delaware: In 1919 Hercules' total sales were $20.5 million. More than 99 percent of these revenues came from a single line of business: commercial explosives, including gunpowder, smokeless powder, blasting powder, and, especially, dynamite. These products were sold to mine and quarry operators, constructio...

buy-back contracts in the upstream oil and gas projects of iran, has experienced the third generation of this kind of contracts since its inception on 1373 (1994) when the oil and gas industry of iran opend its petroleum market to the foreign investment. these contracts have since been subject to the various critieques raised by international oil companies, foreign investors, or petroleum exper...

this research was conducted to investigate the factors contributing to thefailure in the forestry and rangeland by-product cooperative companies in lorestanprovince, iran. a descriptive-correlative research design was used. the statisticalpopulations were 1100 people divided into two groups of experts from natural resourceagency in lorestan province and members of cooperative companies. the sam...