Peer pressure

Social interactions play a clandestine role in determining behavioral and economic outcomes. Youths are collectively socialized through their interaction with adults. There are positive contagious effects in which the chances that a youth behaves in a particular fashion depends directly on the prevalence of such behavior among the his peers.

Post earnings announcement drift

The Post Earnings Announcement Drift (PEAD) anomaly is an anomaly resulting from the ability of market participants to predict future abnormal returns by using information that is contained in past earnings announcements (Brown and Pope,1996). The long existence and the great robustness of the PEAD anomaly violates the semi-strong EMH which states that all public information is fully and instantaneously reflected in the share price (Soffer and Lys,1999). Hence, the PEAD anomaly provides investors with opportunities to earn abnormal profits (Shleifer,2000).

Business Essay – Performance Management Systems

According to Armstrong (2001) performance management can be defined as a strategic and integrated approach to delivering sustained success to businesses, in this instance public services, by improving the performance of the employees by developing the capabilities of team…

Price in free market

Being in a free market economy there are many factors which affect the housing market but without any government intervention, meaning that the prices of houses are set by the forces of demand and supply model, which forces buyers and suppliers to make decisions using the demand and supply analysis, or in other words the model is used to communicate between suppliers and consumers in the decision making process this is known as the price mechanism

Supply Chain Process

Supply chain is an integrated manufacturing process where the raw materials are converted into final products, and then delivered to customers.

Pervasive informatics: its current status & future trends

Information Systems(IS) refers process, people, structure and Technology. It is not just the technology an organization uses, but also how an organizational people interact with the technology and the way in which the technology works with the organization’s business process processes.

Market Research

Marketing research is the function that links the consumer, customer, and public to the marketer through information – information used to identify and define marketing opportunities and problems; generate, refine, and evaluate marketing…

What is a PESTLE analysis in marketing terms?

What is a PESTLE analysis? PESTLE analysis factors are Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal and Environmental.  The PESTLE analysis examines each factor to assess what their impact or potential impact on the organisation.  In this way, they can prepare strategically for any changes that need to be made in the organisation or simply to have … Read more

Sustainable development

As Malcolm McIntosh said, sustainable future is the next great humanities project (1). The modern world was created by businesses and the future should also be drawn by businesses.

Phase 2 in octave

After completion of Phase 1 of OCTAVE, all critical assets and their corresponding threat profiles should have already been defined by the analysis team.