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Microcredit and Rural Women Entrepreneurship Development in Bangladesh: A Multivariate Model

Microcredit programs have a positive socioeconomic impact on the rural female borrowers of Bangladesh. This study suggests that the microcredit programs do not help the borrowers to develop any entrepreneurial capabilities other than survival. Thus, this paper aims at identifying the factors related to the development of entrepreneurship among rural women through the microcredit programs of providers. A multivariate analysis technique (Factor Analysis) was conducted to identify the factors re...

Heterogeneity in Consumer Sensory Evaluation As a Base for Identifying Drivers of Product Choice

In this paper we propose a multiattribute choice modeling approach to explore the heterogeneity in the saliency of product attributes in the process of a product choice that is based on sensory evaluations. We demonstrate this idea by using data about consumers' red wine evaluation. Such an approach enables managers to add knowledge about consumers' needs and wants beyond traditional art and the experience of wine makers into the process of designing a product. We utilized a choice model that...

Group Attributional Style: A Predictor of Individual Turnover Behavior in a Manufacturing Setting

Separate research streams have examined (1) teamwork and (2) turnover. We examined the interaction of group beliefs on team member turnover behavior. We hypothesized that groups with more pessimistic attributional styles would experience greater turnover than optimistic attributional style groups. This effect would be independent of influences of group potency and social identity. A study of fifty intact work teams in a manufacturing facility was conducted, with special attention devoted to r...

Business Failure Prediction for Publicly Listed Companies in China

This study uses data from Chinese publicly listed companies for the period of September 2000-September 2008 to test the accuracy of Altman's Z-score model in predicting failure of Chinese companies. Prediction accuracy was tested for three Z-score variations: Altman's original model, a reestimated model for which the coefficients in Altman's model were recalculated, and a revised model which used different variables. All three models were found to have significant predictive ability. The rees...

Executive Compensation As a Moderator of the Innovation - Performance Relationship1

Little research has been done to try and connect type of compensation with the use of a specific competitive strategy. We propose that compensation (percentage of base, bonus, options-granted, and stock for the top management team) will moderate the innovation strategy to performance relationship based on risk and time horizon. Analyses of panel data from 1994 to 1998 for 380 firms show that the innovation strategy to performance relationship is moderated by bonus and options-granted compensa...