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Data Protection An International And Local Application In The Sme Sector Since Gdpr.
No full textThis dissertation delves into the role of research and development (R&D) within firms, particularly its impact on the financial market. The study reveals that companies with higher rankings in the stock exchange tend to allocate a greater proportion of their expenditures towards R&D.
Through empirical analysis, the research underscores that innovation and technological advancements serve as key drivers for enhancing companies' productivity and fostering growth. Furthermore, the financial market rewards companies that prioritize innovation, reflecting the market's recognition of their efforts to innovate.
Over time, the significance of R&D for companies has evolved, with its importance positively linked to a firm's capacity for growth. The study contextualizes R&D as a pivotal component in how firms envision their future, with the financial market serving as a gauge of the innovative potential of the firm.
The analyzed sample aligns with previous studies, demonstrating a positive relationship between R&D investment, market value, financial market performance, and residual income. Additionally, the research underscores the importance of government involvement in fostering a robust understanding of the role of R&D in driving economic growth
Can research and development expenditures affect firm market value? An empirical analysis of the ten most valuable companies in the Nasdaq exchange
No full textThis dissertation investigates the role of research and development in the financial market of firms. This study shows that the proportion of research and development expenditures is higher for companies high ranked in the stock exchange. The empirical analysis emphasized that innovation and technological changes are drivers for companies’ productivity and growth, and the market appears to rewards companies’ efforts to innovate. The role of research and development for the company changed over the years and the importance of this account for the company is positively associated with the capacity of the firm to grow. This research attempted to contextualize research and development as a fragment of how the firm visionary the future, been the financial market the scale of the innovative aspect of the firm. The sample analysed corroborates with prior studies finding positive relation between research and development, market value, financial market, and residual income, as well as highlighted the importance of governments take part in the development of a solid understanding of the role of research and development to the economy
The Impact of Financial Problems of Performing Dance Companies on Dance Business: A Case Study Analysis of New York Dance Organisations
No full textThe ballet business environment is fraught with uncertainties, prompting organizations to implement changes in their operations to enhance business processes and generate revenue. Change is essential to establish a unique working culture and improve business performance. Business leaders play a crucial role in identifying opportunities for economic prosperity, but they cannot accomplish business improvement tasks alone; they require the support of employees. A strong relationship between ballet leaders and dancers is contingent upon mutual respect and meeting the needs of both parties, including emotional, social, and monetary needs, which contribute to creating a unique working environment.
This dissertation focuses on the economic issues facing the New York ballet industry and seeks solutions to avert its potentially bleak future. The dissertation comprises five chapters:
Introduction: This chapter provides background information on the problem and outlines the general and specific challenges facing the New York ballet industry.
Literature Review: The second chapter delves into academic opinions and existing research relevant to the subject.
Research Methodology: The third chapter explores the research methods employed in this study.
Data Analysis and Findings: Chapter four presents an analysis of the collected data and the findings derived from it.
Conclusion and Recommendations: The final chapter summarizes the conclusions drawn from the research and offers recommendations for addressing the economic issues facing the New York ballet industry.
Through this dissertation, solutions are sought to address the economic challenges confronting the New York ballet industry, with the aim of ensuring its sustainability and continued success
The Impact of Consumer Nationality and Age on Their Awareness and Perceptions of Irish Banks Involved in Carbon Emission Reduction Initiatives
No full textClimate change, and carbon emissions as one of its causes are considered to be one of the major issues that companies must face today. Non-assessment of the negative impact of such a matter can, in time, jeopardize the continuity of businesses. This is not only because of the physical damage that they could generate but also due to the negative results that not acting towards climate change might have on customers of companies, leading to a loss of reputation that could deteriorate the company’s market position.
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact that the adoption of strategies by Financial institutions in Ireland have had so far on their customers, to determine how aware the customers are in regards to these actions, and how their financial performance was affected by examining their variation from the London market of shares and volumes.
The findings revealed that people are aware of this global issue and that nationality of customers makes a difference with regard to their level of awareness of activities towards sustainability and carbon emission reductions being adopted by Irish Banks
Maintaining Brand Reputation In Times Of The Covid-19 Pandemic
No full textThe importance of maintaining brand reputation is a central element within marketing management. Companies engage in developing a brand identity, which consumers perceive as a brand image. Therefore, brand reputation encompasses both the image held by consumers and the strategic goal of management. Decisions regarding the choice of appropriate marketing communication activities for establishing brand reputation involve orchestrating the marketing communication mix, allocating budgets, and designing brand messages. This process begins with considering consumer behavior, including the customer journey. The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly altered consumer behavior, thereby impacting the managerial task environment and decisions related to marketing communication policy.
Building on the theoretical foundation of brand reputation and marketing communication activities, an explorative study was conducted using qualitative polling of 15 managers from various industries. The study reveals a shift from offline to online use of marketing communication instruments during the Covid-19 pandemic. Reductions in marketing budgets were reported, and differences in management decisions based on company type were observed. Brand messages often addressed changes in consumer needs and the psychological situation of target groups, although these messages varied depending on the products and services offered. Agility, as a general behavioral characteristic of a company's internal organization, played a significant role during the pandemic. The pandemic period is also seen as a "wake-up call" for post-pandemic management
An Analysis of Drug Distribution and Medication Errors to Improve Pharmaceutical Services in Nigeria.
No full textThe problem of medication errors represents risks in public health with negative consequences on patient’s wellbeing. Globally, healthcare sectors face more challenges addressing the incidents of medication errors due to underlining factors such as severe funding shortfalls, low patient-physician ratio, inadequate infrastructure and low technological inputs amongst others. Given the foregoing, this study employed a qualitative research design aided with a key informant interview of seven public healthcare experts to examine the drug distribution and administration system of Nigeria's public healthcare setting. The primary data derived from public health experts with both theoretical and practical knowledge of Nigeria's public hospital settings were examined against the secondary data derived from the review of extant literature. The outcomes suggest that systemic problems such as the weak political will of the government to effectively fund its healthcare sector, low workers engagement, weak supervision, anemic enforcement, non-adherence to standard procedures, shortage of healthcare professionals (HCP), low patient awareness, poor organizational culture amongst others represent factors precipitating medication errors. To reverse these significant problems, the study made recommendations comprising the reimagining of the boards and the personnel administration of the hospitals to include individuals from the organized private sector, to enhance best practices and modern HRM practices. Others include the government should boost public funding for the sector, incentivize skilled and experienced HCPs to exercise better supervision, deploy automation to digitally safeguard the system, incentivize medical and nursing education to sustain recruitment pipeline, mandate periodic training for HCP, and the introduction of a mandatory patient awareness booklet to boost public awareness of what constitutes medication errors, the introduction of a mandatory clinical audit review of public hospitals to be conducted by a third party from the private sector, and reorganizing the governance boards of government administered to include non-bureaucrats and seasoned professionals. These are needed to greatly reduce the incident of medication errors in Nigeria's hospital settings
Impacts of Work Environment On Employee Engagement: Evidence From Indomie Noodles Company, Nigeria.
No full textThis study investigates the impacts of the work environment on employee engagement in Indomie Noodles, Nigeria. The work environment constitutes of all tangible and intangible elements within the employee. The work environment consists of opaque management,
leadership, welfare and pay. Therefore, the research investigates these in relation to Indomie Nigeria. The study’s objectives were to discover the adherence to standards of the work environment by Indomie, discover the impact of the work environment on employee engagement and to examine the challenges of the work environment at Indomie. The research adopted the qualitative methodology which collected data from the interview of nine staff at Indomie. The research discovered that Indomie Noodles is adhering to standards of the work environment including best practices on health and safety etc. The research also discovered that the work environment was essential to employee engagement thus commitment. The research also discovers that the challenges of the work environment are fierce competition, lack of pension etc. The research thus makes recommendations on how these challenges can be resolved
Accounting for Nature: An evaluation of the corporate reporting options used by Irish businesses to account for the environment and biodiversity.
No full textModern businesses are keen to demonstrate their good citizenship and consideration of the environment and do so by reporting on their environmental performance. However, the prevalence, quality and subject matter of this reporting varies greatly – rarely directly addressing their actual impact on nature. In light of this challenge, this dissertation has evaluated the environmental reporting methodologies used by Irish businesses to understand and communicate their environmental impact and stewardship activities, with specific focus on the natural capital accounting strategies that seek to account for the impact that businesses have on nature, biodiversity and the environment. Ultimately, the central question that this research seeks to answer is whether the potential value in using biodiversity and natural capital accounting methodologies as part of the suite of corporate reporting options currently available is clear to the business community
Sustainable Finance for a Sustainable Future
No full textBecause of the growing awareness of environmental stability and country socioeconomic development, the importance of sustainable and responsible investment techniques has increased dramatically. To improve risk management and provide sustainable profits for investors, responsible investment methods take environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into account. This paper aims to study on to what extent ESG scores have influence in the financial performance and stock return performance for listed companies in the Eurostoxx50 index. The findings turn out that the statistical regression analysis has not found significant evidence in order to conclude that the higher the ESG Score the higher would be the financial performance or stock return. The study emphasizes the need of sustainability reporting and the shift to the way of investments decision toward sustainability aiming therefore a sustainable future
Why Practising Effective Journalism in Nigeria Is Challenging.
No full textJournalism does not simply entail providing information. For the function of journalism to be achieved, a journalist must provide the public with objective, useful information that can be used to make decisions. It is only after this happens that journalism is effective or has gotten the desired result. However, some challenges make it difficult for many journalists to practise effective journalism in Nigeria. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that make it difficult to practise effective journalism in Nigeria and identify how these factors can be mitigated. This study is based on an interpretivist research paradigm. A qualitative research approach was adopted because this study required nuanced and detailed data to answer the research questions. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from the five participants who were chosen using purposive sampling. The participants were chosen because they have considerable experience working as journalists in Nigeria. The findings of the study are similar to the findings gotten from the literature review but are more complex and offer a different perspective. The findings show that inadequate remuneration and funding, brown-envelope journalism, censorship and lack of technological devices are common factors that may affect the ability of a journalist to practise effective journalism in Nigeria. Furthermore, while these factors are common, journalists who are just starting their career are likely to experience these. Lastly, improving the remuneration and allowances of journalists can help to reduce three of the four factors listed. However, the relationship between gender discrimination and effective journalism requires further research to ascertain if gender discrimination impedes effective journalism