International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research
Academy (IJMRA)

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Historically people of Bangladesh have preference for imported products and services. The purpose of this exploratory study is to understand the present situation of local or global brand preferences and their underlying reasons. A total 203 customers of consumer products and services were asked about their purchase tendency from different age, income and occupational groups. Associations were measured for different demographic variables with product categories and reasons for selecting imported and local brands.
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The study basically evaluates the effect of risks and uncertainties on the capital size and asset size of Money Deposit Banks in Nigeria. Two hypotheses were formulated for testing. The first hypothesis deals with risks' effect and the second one has to do with uncertainties' effect. The study utilises secondary data for the period of ten years ranging from 1999 to 2008. The techniques employed for the purpose of analysis are multiple regression models.
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The notion of satisfaction has been the focal point of interest in the understanding of human behavior. In academic literature satisfaction has been viewed from various branches of academics. Satisfaction has been used to indicate the 'effectiveness of a marketing system' in economics, 'social well-being' in sociology, and an individuals' 'emotional feeling' in psychology). In analyzing behavior of consumers, understanding 'satisfaction' has become an area of monumental interest and addressed by the researchers extensively in the last three decades.
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The overall function of educational research is to improve the educational process through refinement and extension of knowledge. The refinement of existing knowledge or acquisition of new knowledge is essentially and intermediate step toward improvement of educational process. The specific roles of educational research are viewed differently by the people associated with various aspects of education. Most of the colleges, which started in early 1990's, now offer world class Education. Kerala a fully literate-state thirty years ago. (back in 1970)But due to communist influence did not start sufficient professional Educational Institutions to meet the exponential increase in demand for higher Education.
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Growing productivity and profitability is a result of industrialisation. The success of the industry and economic development depends on harmonious industrial relations. No organization can operate entirely without human efforts. Objective of the study is to understand the industrial relations and to examine the different machinery for the settlement of industrial disputes if any and there by focusing on workers participation in the management.15 industrial undertakings in Thane district of Mumbai were covered for the study.
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The BPO industry in India has become a growth engine for the economy. It has achieved staggering growth in the last 10 years of its operation, adding 5 million jobs and USD 15 billion in its revenue. 5 million jobs naturally imply that 5 million people are working in some capacity or the other for the industry. This makes the job of HR all the more demanding, and important.
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The service quality has been widely used to assess the performance of various service organizations including banks .The widespread use of Internet in the service sector posed various challenges to service quality researchers. Various models of online service quality have been proposed time to time by various researchers. Internet banking is one of the growing services that need to provide better service by improving online service quality for higher customer satisfaction and retention.
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Social media and web 2.0 are two terms which are often used interchangeably in the marketing literature, even though they are not entirely the same. From the marketing perspective, the web 2.0 should be perceived as the new tool for the marketing communication mix and facilitator and enabler of social media. Social Media is a fast growing way of communicating via new technologies. It's a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming monologue (one to many) into dialogue (many to many).
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Knowledge economy is usually associated with higher education institutions, which provide both technical and non technical knowledge. India is a large country with 1,220,200,000 (1.22 billion) of population. The present paper analyses the knowledge economy of India with reference to higher education.
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This study deals with the behaviour of the investor to identify the better investment avenues available in India. The investment strategy is a plan, which is created to guide an investor to choose the most appropriate investment portfolio that will help them to achieve their financial goals within a particular period of time. By increasing personal wealth, investing can contribute to higher, overall economic growth and prosperity.
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Banking is an important agency for fostering the Economic Development of a developing country like India. The main objective of Indian economic policy is "economic growth with social justice". This involves balanced growth, prevention of concentration of economic power, direction of the flow of resources towards underdeveloped regions and economically weaker-sections of society and promotion of employment opportunities and improvement in the quality of life.
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Insufficient security can result in downtime, or even worse, reduce credibility with customers and partners. Many organisations have preventive security measures in place, such as firewalls, antivirus systems and networking monitoring software. But while prevention can go a long way in safeguarding information assets, having a plan in place for meeting potential threats is critical. Realizing comprehensive security relies upon organizations ability to strategically assess areas of potential weakness, which is where having an assessment of business overall security program comes in and thereafter setting the business objectives for information security, often called security program design and management.
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Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is the India's largest Life Insurance Company. LIC has acquired monopoly power in the solicitation and sale of Life Insurance Policies in India. LIC has registered a six per cent increase in market share to 78 percent during the current financial year. LIC's market share at the end of March 31, 2011, had stood at 72 per cent of all new policies sold during the last financial year (2010-11). The combined market share of 23 Private Life Insurance Companies has 22 per cent during the current fiscal, according to the latest figures. LIC has 53 products in his portfolio and sold around 80 lakh policies till the end of July 2011. LIC has set the new target of Rs. 54000 crores as a first premium income for 2011-12.
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Timber has been used for thousands of years as a building material for homes, bridges, fences, barns and furniture. Building with timber is cost effective, aesthetically pleasing, and environmentally responsible. Artists can use timber to create delicate sculptures. Timber has long been used as an artistic medium. It has been used to make sculptures and carvings for centuries. It is also used in woodcut printmaking, and for engraving. Certain types of musical instruments, such as the xylophone and marimba, are made mostly or entirely of wood.
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Now days, there has been a stiff competition in the modern retailing sector. This has forced the retailers to pay considerable efforts to attract the consumers to their stores, has been increasing the frequency and amount of purchase available. Therefore, the significance of enabling store loyalty and developing innovative strategies towards this have been highlighted. In this study it is aimed to determine the effect of the satisfaction, trust-value perception and store image variables on the consumers' retail store loyalty in Twin cities of Andhra Pradesh.
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For more than 150 years, the Department of Posts (DoP) has been the backbone of the country's communication and has played a vital role to connect the whole of the country and has also provided banking facilities in the absence of banks. But over time, its role has changed and it has grown to become one of the best avenues to channel investment from even the wealthy investor and use them fruitfully in nation buildings activities. There has been introduction of several types of deposit schemes that cater to the differing needs of different classes of investors in which person has an option to invest even a minimal amount of Rs.500 per month.
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The changes in the capital market bring transformation in the entire economy of the country. The boom and depression of the capital market is reflected in all sectors of the economy. Stock price downward movement continuously in the market forewarns the crisis period in advance. Numerous studies were conducted to trace the movement of stock market and its relationship with various economic factors. CNXNIFTY Index of NSE has been taken to compare the stock market movement with exchange rate.
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The present study attempts to test the mechanisms of Export - Led Growth in India by taking a time- series data from 1980-81 to 2008-09. It applies Ordinary Least square (OLS) method to investigate the relationship between Gross National Product, Total Exports, Manufactured Exports and Investment. The results of the study supports the Export - Led growth Hypothesis (ELGH) in India.
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Retailing in a layman's language involves the procurement of varied products in large quantities from various sources and their sales in small lot for direct consumption to the purchaser. The retail sector in India is witnessing a huge revamping exercise as traditional markets make way for new formats such as departmental stores, hypermarkets, supermarkets, speciality stores and shopping malls. Western-style malls have begun appearing in metros and second-rung cities alike introducing the customers to a shopping experience likes never before. In response to the growing importance of services in the economy and recognition by the different firms to use, services as a distinguishing factor, the study about to study consumer perception regarding purchase of products from big shopping malls in Chandigarh.
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Mutual funds are key contributors to the globalization of financial markets and one of the main sources of capital flows to emerging economies. This study provides an overview of the performance of debt scheme of mutual fund of Reliance, and Birla Sunlife with the help of Sharpe Index after calculating Net Asset Values and Standard Deviation. This study reveals that returns on Debt Schemes are close to Benchmark return (Crisil Composite Debt Fund Index: 4.34%) and Risk Free Return: 6% (average adjusted for last five year).
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