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This paper will attempt to indagate the subject of business interruption insurance — an insurance covering the lost income of a company after the occurrance of an accident or a disaster. At first, a brief history of property insurance and the institution being examined is presented. The line of examination is pursued further focusing on characterizing the Polish business interruption insurance. The...
The work is devoted to solving the urgent problem of developing scientific grounds of modernization and innovation industrial development of the North and the Arctic of the Russian Federation under the conditions of resource restrictions, first of all investment and financial ones. The goal of the research is to elaborate theoretical and methodological grounds for potentialities of modernization and...
For the last decade, there has been much scrutiny over the benefits and effects of outsourcing information and computer technology services. But the fast-paced, ever-changing world we live in will only continue to grow more and more reliant upon IT outsourcing for many reasons, such as cost savings, innovation, and potential global opportunities. Is there a possible downside for the practice of outsourcing?...
India assumes a significant position in Leather landscape of Asia. India has well proven itself as a potential sourcing destination for Leather and Leather products. Indian Leather industry occupies a place of prominence in the Indian economy in view of its massive potential for employment, growth and exports. Though India is the second largest producer of Footwear and Leather garments in the world,...
The United States Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) is a user-driven, coordinated network of people, organizations, and technology that generate and disseminate continuous data about our coastal waters, Great Lakes, and oceans supported by strong research and development activities. IOOS® is our Eyes on our Oceans, Coasts and Great Lakes that enable the United States to track, predict, manage,...
Between 2000 and 2010, the Canadian federal government disbursed $716 893 740 in research grants through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)'s Research Partnerships Programs. This is only one branch, of one agency, in the immense bureaucracy of government funding. This study will examine the social networks which resulted from these research grants. Over this eleven...
Nowadays we are in an ever-changing world and higher engineering education is facing more challenges than before. Due to the globalization of economy, engineering products are manufactured by integrating resources from many countries all over the world. Engineering projects are implemented by the people with different cultural background. Programs of higher engineering education seem to be more specialized...
In recent years, the family business becomes a hot issue, the family business is playing an important role in the modern economy, but its management question has also become increasingly outstanding, the most prominent question is cronyism in the family business. This article has analyzed the reasons of nepotism from four aspects: the traditional Chinese family culture; trust resources lacking; financing...
Business complementarity widely exists in the economy, the difficulty in scientifically measuring it limits our knowledge to it. In this paper, we construct a complementarity measure by using IO table and investigate the performance of business complementarity. It is found that SOEs are more complementary than private firms, and mining is the most complementary industry. Further analysis shows that...
With the sustainable development of China's economy, China's securities market would play more and more important role in the global securities market. However, as an emerging market, the speculative psychology and short-term investing behavior in China's securities market is very obvious, therefore, it is of important theoretical and practical significance to research on behavioral finance features...
Sustainability, given as a goal for future industry, is not only an issue for production engineering. Economy and ecology are an actual concern of governments and individuals worldwide. An effort must be carried on in order to reduce energy and resource consumption, deal with the possibility of climate changes and, at the same time, keep competitive in a world ruled by economic demands. In accordance...
The extraordinary importance of the services sector for the economy both in production and employment cannot be denied. As services are moving to center stage in the global arena and the emergence of service science or SSME (Service Science, Management and Engineering), related study and especially the study of service operations management (SOM) are becoming hot. More attention should be paid to...
Electronic Marketplaces (e-marketplaces, EMs) are one of the most important components of electronic commerce (EC). They allow the exchange of goods or services between buyers and sellers for money or other products and services. EMs also play a central role in the economy by facilitating the exchange of information, goods, services, and payments. E-marketplaces create economic value for buyers, sellers,...
The enterprise business process is a very vital resource, and the enterprise's performance in economy and environment could be gradually improved through business process improvement (BPI). Moreover, as more and more attentions are being paid to environmental conservation, the connotations of green production and service have been constantly enriched. With the help of systematic analysis of many literatures...
With the fast development of economy, the project investment method became the most attractive and prosperous way of infrastructural facilities investment. At the same time, the problem of BOT project investment risk has gained increasingly more people's attention. This paper applies real option theory to BOT project investment decision. The BOT project investment decision model based on the binary...
The trend to use third-party logistics services becomes more prominent especially in the industrializing countries such as China where manufacturing constitutes a major part of the economy. This development poses a great challenge to channel managers in selecting the third-party logistics service providers and evaluating service levels of these providers. Unfortunately, the research nowadays does...
The university today holds the function of transmitting, discovering and distributing knowledge to society, by responding to the needs of companies and adopting mechanisms that facilitate the transfer of knowledge. Therefore, one of the larger objectives of the university is to make knowledge a differentiating element within the society and the economy since this motivates competition, creates wealth...
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