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Journal articles on the topic "RANK COMPANIES"
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George, Abin, M. Ramachandran, Vimala Saravanan, and Ashwini Murugan. "Assessment of Manufacturing Companies using WASPAS MCDM Method." 4 1, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.46632/jdaai/1/4/1.
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A manufacturing commercial enterprise is any business that makes use of uncooked materials, components, and additives to collect finished products. Manufacturing is described as the creation of latest merchandise from uncooked materials or components. Productivity to understand what is missing Companies Expanding their service business Based on this extensive research, for managers in manufacturing companies We try to provide guidance. Weighted Total Product Assessment (WASPAS) analysis used the results of this study to provide decision makers with these complexity, compatibility, perceived benefits, technical resources, security and privacy as alternative and evaluation parameters ofArea of manufacturing, Job position, Age, Working experience in this position. Security and privacy is got the first rank whereas is the Perceived benefits is having the Lowest rank. In this paper Manufacturing Companies Security and privacy is got the first rank whereas is the Perceived benefits is having the Lowest rank
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Sanchez-Ruiz, Lidia, Beatriz Blanco, and Emma Diaz. "Difficulty in implementing continuous improvement – Rasch measurement analysis." Business Process Management Journal 25, no. 6 (September 17, 2019): 1228–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bpmj-05-2017-0125.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to define a general and common construct in order to measure the level of difficulty companies experience when they implement continuous improvement (CI). Additionally, a rank of barriers is obtained together with a rank of companies. Design/methodology/approach In order to achieve the objective, first, a literature review is carried out to specify the domain of the construct; second, a sample of items is selected; third a survey is carried out in companies that have already implemented CI initiatives, the results being thus limited to this population; fourth, measures are purified by analysing the reliability and validity of the measurements, and finally results are obtained. The Rasch measurement theory will be used to provide a new perspective on a mature research topic. Findings It can be concluded that a new valid construct has been defined together with a rank of CI barriers, being lack of time the main barrier. A rank of companies is also obtained which is a first step in the development of future research studies. Practical implications Managers are provided with a better understanding of the barriers that can obstruct CI implementation. Thus, the rank of CI barriers guides managers through the most common and important obstacles so that they will be able to plan better CI strategies. In addition, the rank of companies allows each company to undertake a benchmarking exercise. Originality/value This work proposes a new way of analysing the difficulty in implementing CI as a continuum, rather than as independent barriers. From a theoretical point of view, it defines a new construct and offers a rank of CI barriers together with a rank of companies based on their level of difficulty when implementing CI initiatives. This is something new, as previous studies were mainly focussed on the items side. From a practical point of view, this study offers the surveyed companies the opportunity to see how they are positioned with respect to the other companies. Moreover, this rank of companies is the foundation on which to develop further studies with a practical orientation in the future.
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Silveira, Daniel Duarte da, Marlon Soares Sigales, Ramón Justiniano Benítez Centurion, Ângelo Vieira dos Reis, and Mauro Fernando Ferreira. "COMPUTATIONAL TOOL FOR SELECTION AND RANKING OF PULL-TYPE FORAGE HARVESTERS." Revista Engenharia na Agricultura - Reveng 29 (August 4, 2021): 129–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.13083/reveng.v29i1.10573.
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The variety of forage harvester models available on Brazilian market demand practical tools for selecting and ranking these equipments. The present study aimed at the elaboration of an algorithm capable of providing simple and objective criteria that assist in the decision making. The communication channel of the companies was used to obtain technical specifications and price of the equipment, which were tabulated in spreadsheets. The instructions for the manipulation of the obtained data were elaborated in the software R, being calculated ranks for the following requirements considering simulated information about a farm: price (COT), productivity and price relation (PROD.COT), fuel consumption (CONS), operational comfort (CONF), versatility (VERS) and overall (GERAL). We obtained information from 45 models belonging to 8 companies. The best machine in the overall rank got similar rank in the COT, PROD.COT and CONS ranks and worst rank for CONF. The algorithm established allowed the selection and ranking of the forage harvesters analyzed, providing simple, objective and easily interpreted criteria for the use of the farmers and the technicians who assist them.
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Chien, LiHsien, and Shuyi Chi. "An integrated data envelopment approach for evaluating the meat companies efficiency." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 65, No. 10 (October 22, 2019): 470–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/91/2019-agricecon.
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The purpose of this study is to apply the assurance region (AR) concept to restrict the range of input-output weights with expert opinions in the data envelopment approach (DEA). Opinions from 34 experts were collected by a questionnaire in order to rank the importance of cost and revenue sources and measure the influence of business factors with the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP). This article suggests that a DEA with AR specification in variable weights can present realistic results to measure and rank the performance of twenty meat auction companies (MAC) in Taiwan. We categorise MACs into four groups by decomposing their two revenue sources with auction and slaughter priority and recommend the managerial strategies for each group to improve operational efficiency. This consideration is more critical for small samples or industries that are close to the spatial competitive market structure.<br />
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Al Alawi, Mubarak. "Delay in payment effects on productivity of small and medium construction companies in Oman: exploration and ranking." Asian Journal of Civil Engineering 22, no. 7 (August 21, 2021): 1347–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42107-021-00387-8.
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AbstractMaintaining a stable productivity rate in a construction project is a challenge. Many external and internal factors influence it. Delay in payment is one of the factors representing the project cash flow and mirrors the company’s financial stability status. This study explores the delay in payments effects on the construction productivity of the small and medium construction companies in Oman. Also, it ranks the delay in payment among other productivity factors. Sixty-five small and medium construction companies registered in Oman Tender Board participated in the questionnaire survey. The results showed that delay in payment significantly affects the financial stability of the companies. The delay in payment was ranked third out of 21 influencing productivity factors. The results were compared with a previous study that covered large construction companies in Oman. It was found that the rank of delay in payment in the small and medium construction is significantly higher than what was found in large companies.
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Weng Hoe, Lam, Lam Weng Siew, and Liew Kah Fai. "Performance analysis on telecommunication companies in malaysia with TOPSIS model." Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 13, no. 2 (February 1, 2019): 744. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v13.i2.pp744-751.
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Emergence of telecommunication companies is springing up due to the high demand from the consumers. The invention of telecommunication has made the world more knowledgeable as information can be transmitted easily. Based on the past studies, telecommunication is not commonly investigated especially in financial management field. Thereore, this study aims to propose a conceptual framework to evaluate, compare and rank the financial performance of the listed telecommunication companies in Malaysia using TOPSIS model. Financial ratios are employed to examine the financial performance of the telecommunication companies. The data of this study consists of DIGI, MAXIS, AXIATA and TM which are listed telecommunication companies in Malaysia stock market. The results of this study show that DIGI achieves the first ranking, followed by MAXIS, AXIATA and TM within the study period of year 2011-2015. This study is significant because it helps to evaluate, compare and rank the financial performance of the listed telecommunication companies in Malaysia with the proposed conceptual framework based on TOPSIS model.
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JONES, KATHRYN, and TONY ALABASTER. "CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING SCORING SYSTEMS." Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 01, no. 01 (March 1999): 27–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1464333299000041.
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Scoring systems are increasingly being used to rate, rank and benchmark corporate environmental reports. This paper outlines the four basic levels of measurement or scales utilised in scoring systems highlighting the rules of scaling and statistical application. The scoring systems created by seven groups of analysts and researchers are described and assessed for their methodological approaches. The research shows that the axioms of the scales are rarely obeyed, thus creating skewed and misleading results. The implications of utilising such scoring system to rate, rank and benchmark companies can have repercussions on the type of publicity that companies receive, and they must be better understood and executed in order that companies can deal with the consequences more readily.
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Sousa, Nádia, and Flávia Zóboli Dalmácio. "Corporate governance and corporate investment: an exploratory research in the Brazilian publicly traded companies listed in Bovespa." Corporate Ownership and Control 9, no. 1 (2011): 545–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv9i1c5art4.
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This paper aims to study the influence of Corporate Governance practices in the institutional decision to invest. It was developed a Governance Index (iGov), a descending rank was prepared and a test was applied to check if the companies in the first 25% of this rank have the highest number of institutional investors among their biggest investors than the companies of the last 25%. For the validation of IGov it was tested if the companies with the best marks present highest Returns, lowest Capital Cost, highest Market Value, and highest Competiveness within the sector, lowest Beta, highest EVA® and lowest Share concentration. It has been proved that the best Corporate Governance practices do not have any statistical relation with the presence of more Institutional Investor.
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Abd Rahim, Zati Halwani, Norasyikin Abdullah Fahami, Farah Waheeda Azhar, Hilwana Abd Karim, and Siti Khatijah Nor Abdul Rahim. "Application of TOPSIS Analysis Method in Financial Performance Evaluation: A Case Study of Construction Sector in Malaysia." ADVANCES IN BUSINESS RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL 6, no. 1 (May 31, 2020): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/abrij.v6i1.9934.
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This research aims to propose TOPSIS model in evaluating, comparing, and ranking the Malaysian companies under the construction sector according to their financial performance using financial ratio. Previously, TOPSIS model and financial ratio as tools of measurement have been applied to evaluate, compare, and rank the financial performance of the companies. Nevertheless, there are not many researches have been done on TOPSIS model in Malaysia’s construction sector. Hence, this paper intends to fill in the loopholes by assessing the performance of the companies from the construction sector in Malaysia stock market by implementing the proposed model. Based from the findings, TOPSIS model was able to assess the companies’ financial performance and consequently rank them. The results from the study parallel with the study done by other investment agencies. Therefore, this method can be opted to substitute the fundamental and technical valuation that is commonly utilised by the investment analysts.
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Aghajani, Ahmad. "An Empirical Study: Impact of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) On Brand loyalty." Journal of Management and Accounting Studies 2, no. 04 (July 3, 2019): 6–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jmas.vol2iss04pp6-11.
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This current study has done to investigate the relationship between integrated marketing communications (IMC) and loyalty to brand in view point of customers of detergent industries companies In Karaj City. Methodology: The statistical population in this study is consists of customers in detergent companies In Karaj City which 384 people is as the sample size of customers, by using the Cochran formula with the method of available and simple random sampling were selected. For collecting data by the method of Questionnaires were used, questionnaires selected in this study were standard. Results: Data with statistical programs in both descriptive and inferential statistics were analyzed. The reliability of questionnaires with Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated and these coefficients for questionnaires integrated marketing communications and brand loyalty respectively was equal to 0.788, 0.754 and 0.717. All Hypotheses at the level of 95% confidence were confirmed. Conclusion: The results of the Minor hypotheses showed that sale promotion on brand loyalty in the first rank, advertising on brand loyalty in the second rank, public relations on brand loyalty in the third rank, direct marketing on brand loyalty in fourth rank and the last rank have located.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "RANK COMPANIES"
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Mouton, Daniel Marais. "Focussed growth : the development of a system to rank and prioritise new capital projects of mining companies." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/8578.
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Thesis (MBA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.With limited financial and management resources companies cannot afford to spend resources on every growth opportunity that presents itself, and must therefore continuously rank potential opportunities in order to focus its resources and efforts on the most valuable opportunities. The aim of this study is to develop a system to rank and prioritise new capital projects of mining companies, and specifically Exxaro, which will allow the company to focus its growth efforts on the most valuable opportunities. The literature study firstly examines the use of portfolio management, and particularly the CFA Investment Management Process for ranking investment opportunities. Secondly, various methodologies utilised in the ranking of R&D projects are investigated, providing a guideline for terminology and steps to be used in a capital project ranking system. The project development cycle is also investigated in order to understand the impact of ranking projects that are in different stages of development. Lastly, the utilisation and merits of different financial measures and multi-criteria decision analysis techniques is examined. The literature study emphasised the following principles: Portfolio management is a very structured and formalised process for matching investments with the strategic objectives of an individual or company. The formalised nature of the process ensures that there are clear direction and rigorous criteria for decision making regarding investments, which in turn ensures that resources are spent only on robust investment opportunities. The ranking systems for Research and Development projects emphasised that a ranking system should contain multiple perspectives and criteria in order to comprehensively evaluate all aspects of investment opportunities, but that these perspectives and criteria should not duplicate or overlap in terms of measuring a certain aspect of an opportunity. When rigorous front end loading is applied in the project development process, there is sufficient information to compare and rank projects in different stages of the project development cycle. The financial criteria form a very important part of the ranking criteria and there are various financial criteria utilised to measure the merits of a project. While there are pros and cons to the use of certain criteria, companies should acknowledge and understand the shortcomings of each criteria, the financial aspect of a project measured by each criteria, and ensure that there is no duplication while it utilises the criteria that is well understood and accepted throughout the company. Multiple criteria decision analysis is a comprehensive and structured decision making process which requires the focussed participation of personnel involved in the decisions. The structured process provides a better understanding of the decision to be made, a means to clarify the decision and its implications and the stimulation of discussion and sharing of ideas about the decision and its context. A second part of the research entails qualitative research where interviews were held with four senior mining executives in order to utilise their experience with project ranking systems. The knowledge and understanding gained from the literature study was used to guide the interviews and adapt conversations to specific issues and different points of view. The focus of the interviews was not to obtain statistical data, but rather on having strategic conversations about how project ranking can and should be applied, and to extract inputs from the experience of the interviewees on the design of a ranking system. Findings from the interviews included an emphasis on the importance of guidance from the company strategy in determining perspectives and criteria for project ranking; a requirement to discard unworthy projects as soon as possible via a rigorous filter per commodity; guidance on perspectives and criteria that could be included in the ranking system; the need to firstly rank projects within a commodity before comparing the top projects across commodities; and the need to carefully manage the ranking process in order to ensure that it is included in the annual business process cycle of the company. The knowledge and practical inputs gained from the literature and the strategic conversations were finally applied to Exxaro’s processes and ranking system. Possible reasons for the failure of previous attempts at implementing a ranking system were found to be the lack of a clearly articulated strategy and insufficient involvement of the decision makers in the design of the project ranking system. With the design of a new ranking system, specific perspectives, criteria, filters and templates were designed and a process was suggested to ensure inclusion of the ranking system in the annual business process cycle of Exxaro. In conclusion, a number of suggestions were made for continuous improvement of the project ranking system and its outputs.
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CHAUHAN, ADITYA. "INVESTMENT MODEL TO RANK COMPANIES." Thesis, 2021. http://dspace.dtu.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/repository/18995.
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Purpose
With the exponential development of commercial operations in today's world, the
presence of a performance evaluation mechanism in all organisations is a foregone
conclusion. This requirement is so obvious that the absence of an evaluation
mechanism is seen as a sign of the organization being unhealthy. Financial reviews
motivate businesses to improve their results by displaying a company's actual
financial status in comparison to other businesses by providing a favourable
atmosphere.
These types of evaluations are also helpful in reforming and strengthening
shortcomings by recognising the strengths of completed operations. In today's
intensely competitive climate, financial results evaluation is a critical process for
businesses. Company rating is a complicated mechanism that requires the
consideration of several financial ratios at the same time. Furthermore, the task of
selecting a suitable loan applicant firm has become more difficult, as financial
professionals must evaluate a broad variety of options based on a collection of
competing financial requirements
. As a result, all insiders and customers of a company benefit from establishing a
specific and appropriate performance evaluation procedure. To assess financial
results, we must consider a number of financial metrics that represent a company's
competitiveness. To properly measure and rate the relative success of rival firms,
multiple financial ratios must be considered simultaneously. To accomplish this goal,
a systematic literature analysis and expert advice are used to identify the key
requirements.
Method
The Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method
was selected to solve the problem after a rigorous literature analysis. The TOPSIS
method will determine the financial ratios' importance to the evaluation result and
show how firms work differently on each financial ratio. This paper examines the TOPSIS approach and offers an online website platform that anybody can use to rate
US companies in various industries.
The created website takes data from a financial api and automatically executes
calculations using the TOPSIS model. It gives us the names of all the companies, their
tickers, and the rankings they have earned. Anyone in the world may use the website, which is used to rate firms in a specific industry in the US market Findings
The result of this research is a tool in the form of a website that can be used by
various investors, analysts, traders and researchers to ascertain the ranking of
companies in an industry according to the fundamental ratios. The ranking is based
on only the ratios and it doesn’t take into account other stock market factors such as
sentiments, macroeconomics and political forces etc. Ignoring all these factors the
model is a robust tool to rank companies and can be used in conjunction with other research that accounts for these other factors to provide fruitful results.
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Lamprecht, Norman. "Analysis of the Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) as a promotional tool for the South African automotive industry in the global automotive environment." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2378.
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The Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) was implemented on 1 September 1995 in the context of the country's political and economic liberalisation and the major structural shift in government policy and the trade regime. In an intensely competitive global environment, the strategies of a few dominant motor vehicle manufacturers, mainly operating from the Triad regions of North America, Europe and Japan, impact significantly on the developments of the global automotive industry.
Over the past decade the small, highly protected and inwardly focused South African automotive industry has become fully integrated in the global strategies of foreign parent companies. As South Africa's leading manufacturing sector, the automotive sector is contributing significantly to the country's economy in terms of exports, investment, employment and the gross domestic product.
The objective of the study was to establish and measure the relevance and value of the MIDP as a promotional tool in the global automotive environment by capturing the responses and perceptions of direct automotive industry exporters and stakeholders for
* the South African automotive industry in general, and
* the companies forming part of the empirical survey.
To satisfy the objectives of the study, the research methodology incorporated an extensive primary and secondary research phase (qualitative and quantitative). A structured empirical survey was used to collect the primary data. The survey data were captured and processed by the Bureau for Market Research (BMR), Unisa.
The main findings of the study are that:
* The promotional relevance and value of the MIDP as a promotional tool is embedded in the programme's ability to trigger interest in the South African automotive industry, to generate business and to attract investments.
* The MIDP is successful in contributing to the automotive sector's international competitiveness and is therefore a very important promotional tool for convincing foreign parent companies to consider South Africa as an investment destination.
* The South African automotive industry would not be able to cope with global competition without the MIDP.
* Different factors impact on the business operations of the South African automotive industry in general and the specific company in particular and the factors are viewed differently by the selected groups based on their demographic details.
The process of trade liberalisation is forcing many South African companies to encounter both intensified competition and new forms of competition. The South African government's target of a 6 percent economic growth rate by 2010 will largely depend on the ongoing successes achieved in priority sectors such as the domestic automotive sector.Business Management
M. Comm. (Business Management)
Books on the topic "RANK COMPANIES"
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The Ayn Rand companion. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1986.
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Reisel, Gladstein Mimi, ed. The new Ayn Rand companion. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1999.
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Ayn Rand: A sense of life : the companion book. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 1998.
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1948-, Younkins Edward Wayne, ed. Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged: A philosophical and literary companion. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2007.
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Gong si gu quan zhuan rang cao zuo zhi nan: Operation guidelines for the transfer of equity interest in companies. Beijing shi: Fa lü chu ban she, 2004.
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Wang, Yingyao. Zhongguo shang shi gong si bing gou chong zu yu zhong xiao qi ye gu fen zhuan rang xi tong gua pai ye wu shi wu: The practices of merger and reorganization of China's listed companies and listing in national equities exchange and quotations. Beijing Shi: Zhongguo jing ji chu ban she, 2015.
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Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Abū Nuʻaym al-Iṣbahānī. The beauty of the righteous & ranks of the elite: A collection of 1000 rare accounts of the blessed companions of God's messenger Muhammad based on the classic 10th century work of Imam al-H̲ãfiz Abu Naʻïm al-As̲fahãni (948-1038 C.E.) H̲ilyat-ul Awliya wa T̲abaqãt al-As̲fiya = Ḥilyat al-awliyāʼ wa-ṭabaqāt al-aṣfiyāʼ. Philadelphia, Pa: Pearl Pub. House, 1995.
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The complete spice book: From allspice to vanilla-the ultimate companion to the ancient and everyday wonders on your spice rack. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
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Wai shang tou zi qi ye zhuan rang ding jia de shui shou wen ti yan jiu: Research on the tax issue of transfer pricing of foreign-funded companies. Beijing Shi: Jing ji ke xue chu ban she, 2008.
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Wai shang tou zi qi ye zhuan rang ding jia de shui shou wen ti yan jiu: Research on the tax issue of transfer pricing of foreign-funded companies. Beijing Shi: Jing ji ke xue chu ban she, 2008.
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Patro, Saphal, Tejasvin Goyal, Vikky Anand, and N. Jayanthi. "Ranking Countries by Perception of Indigenous Companies: A Social Media Rank Metric." In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 223–32. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9927-9_22.
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Iorlamen, Teryima, Lucky O. Omoigui, Alpha Y. Kamara, Umar Garba, Nater Iyorkaa, Temitope Ademulegun, and Reuben Solomon. "Developing Sustainable Cowpea Seed Systems for Smallholder Farmers through Innovation Platforms in Nigeria: Experience of TL III Project." In Enhancing Smallholder Farmers' Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties Through Multi-stakeholder Platforms, 125–42. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8014-7_9.
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AbstractLimited access to and low use of quality seed of improved varieties rank among the topmost causes of persistently low cowpea yields in Nigeria. This paper presents experiences under the Tropical Legume III (TL III) project in facilitating the access of smallholder farmers to seeds of improved cowpea varieties through the establishment of innovation platforms (IPs) that were introduced in 2015 as part of the activities of the TL III project. There was rapid adoption and use of newly released varieties by farmers as a result of increased awareness of improved varieties through multi-media and user-friendly communication strategies and tools. During the four years of the project (2015–2018), a total of seven multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs), which comprised six seed companies, 46 farmer groups, five public seed enterprises, two NGOs, and 718 individual seed entrepreneurs and other stakeholders, were established/strengthened to link actors in the cowpea value chain. Community-based seed producers were linked to seed companies while seed companies were linked to research institutions to access early generation seed (EGS). These activities led to the production of over 532 tons of basic seed and 8366 tons of certified/QDS seed of improved cowpea varieties that were entrenched in the seed system. Yield also increased almost twofold from 500 to 900 kg/ha on farmers’ field. Women and youth incomes increased as a result of seed entrepreneurship activities. The small packs approach was an efficient and cost-effective means of reaching more farmers with affordable quantities of seed and a wide range of preferred varieties.
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Gil, Thomas. "Leopold Ranke." In A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, 381–92. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444304916.ch34.
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Beiser, Frederick C. "Hegel and Ranke: A Re-examination." In A Companion to Hegel, 332–50. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444397161.ch16.
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Ditlev-Simonsen, Caroline D. "The Business Case for Sustainability." In A Guide to Sustainable Corporate Responsibility, 103–28. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88203-7_5.
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AbstractIn this chapter, I discuss how companies address sustainability challenges. First, the chapter begins with examples of different corporate approaches to taking responsibility for sustainability. Second, I explore how companies are viewed from the stakeholder perspective, so how others outside the company view the managers’ motivations for engaging in corporate responsibility. Although most companies are still motivated by risk reduction and/or marketing in their sustainability work, this chapter will reframe the motivations into something more positive—a business opportunity. Four cases will be presented, Nike, Arthur Andersen, Volkswagen, and companies involved in the Rana Plaza tragedy, and the companies’ approaches relative to the following strategies will be discussed: reacting, defending, accommodating, and, finally, a proactive approach in which a business’s profitability is anchored in sustainability. The chapter will conclude with reflections on business models for sustainability.
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Liebersohn, Harry. "German Historical Writing from Ranke to Weber." In A Companion to Western Historical Thought, 168–84. Malden, Massachusetts, USA: Blackwell Publishers Inc., 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470998748.ch9.
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High, Mette M. "Articulations of Ethics: Energy Worlds and Moral Selves." In The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology, 607–26. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7084-8_31.
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AbstractThis chapter introduces the notion of ‘regimes of ethics’ to explore the diverse ways that ethics is articulated in corporate capitalism, particularly in industries that are involved in the extraction of natural resources such as oil and gas. I show how companies draw on corporate social responsibility frameworks as public-facing demonstrations of ethics for stakeholder engagement, while also generating greater company loyalty and pride among employees. While corporate social responsibility (CSR) provides an explicit corporate strategy, the professional codes of ethics that apply to engineering practices in the USA specifically anchor ethics in individual decision-making. Animated by a generally conservative, if not stultifying, ethos, engineering ethics sees practices such as whistleblowing and breaking ranks as epitomising individual ethical action. Co-existing with and sometimes challenging these two formal regimes of ethics are also industry actors’ own moral convictions. This third regime of ethics draws on my ethnographic research in the oil and gas industry in Colorado, USA. By discussing these various articulations of ethics, my aim is to take seriously formal rules and codes as well as industry actors’ own ethical sensibilities. I suggest that rather than existing as entrenched hardened moral worlds, these multiple and competing regimes of ethics indicate the underdetermined nature of ethical life.
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Dinçer, Hasan, Serhat Yüksel, and Fatih Pınarbaşı. "Technology Acceptance Model-Based Website Evaluation of Service Industry." In Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Models for Website Evaluation, 1–28. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8238-0.ch001.
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The aim of this chapter is to evaluate the website of Turkish companies in service industry which are listed in İstanbul Stock Exchange. Within this framework, two different dimensions are identified by considering technology acceptance model. On the other side, six different criteria are also defined based on SERVQUAL method. Fuzzy DEMATEL method is used to weight dimensions and criteria. Moreover, fuzzy VIKOR and fuzzy TOPSIS approaches are considered to rank the service companies according to the website overall performance. The findings show that being user friendly is the most significant criterion with respect to the website effectiveness. Another important result is that banks are on the first rank for this aspect whereas telecommunication companies have the lowest performance. Therefore, it is recommended that telecommunication companies should firstly focus on improving the factors that make the use of website very easily for the investors. This situation attracts the attention of these investors and it has a positive influence on the financial performance of these companies.
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Dinçer, Hasan, and Serhat Yüksel. "Analysis of the Customer-Based Efficiency at Workplace for Tourism Industry Using House of Quality." In Handbook of Research on Positive Organizational Behavior for Improved Workplace Performance, 310–29. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0058-3.ch018.
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The aim of the study is to evaluate the customer expectations and workplace efficiency of tourism industry in the competitive market environment. For this purpose, house of quality is applied to measure the relative importance of the customer expectations and to rank the workplace efficiency based on customer needs using the fuzzy systems. A set of criteria for the customer expectations and workplace efficiency is defined with the supported literature to weight and rank the factors. Fuzzy DEMATEL is applied for weighting the criteria and fuzzy VIKOR is used for ranking the technical factors of competitive tourism industry. The findings show that tourism companies should mainly focus on designing services for the customers to use easily. In this context, website of the tourism companies should be redeveloped so that the users should understand all details regarding the tourism companies much easily. In addition, technological competency should be provided by the tourism companies to increase their competitive power.
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Mallon, Christopher, Shai Y. Waisman, and Ray C. Schrock. "Compromising Shareholder Claims Generally and in Listed Companies." In The Law and Practice of Restructuring in the UK and US. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198755395.003.0011.
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In both UK and US bankruptcy proceedings, shareholders rank lowest in terms of recovery. In consensual restructurings, however, shareholders in both jurisdictions may be able to position themselves to retain some potential upside in exchange for their cooperation in the restructuring process. Likewise, in the context of non-consensual arrangements, shareholders in both the US and UK may also seek to leverage their position, especially in cases where they have an influence in the restructured business, whether this is by virtue of their involvement as management or key employees, or in providing further funds to the distressed business. As a matter of UK law, various restructuring techniques exist which facilitate the compromise of shareholder rights, or allow them in certain circumstances to be left out of the restructuring entirely; we consider these techniques in this chapter. In summary however, both in the US and as a matter of UK law, a consensual solution is often the preferred route so shareholder cooperation is often sought, and to this extent the shareholders may continue to influence the restructuring process.
Conference papers on the topic "RANK COMPANIES"
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Liu, Qi, Han Wu, Yuyang Ye, Hongke Zhao, Chuanren Liu, and Dongfang Du. "Patent Litigation Prediction: A Convolutional Tensor Factorization Approach." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/701.
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Patent litigation is an expensive legal process faced by many companies. To reduce the cost of patent litigation, one effective approach is proactive management based on predictive analysis. However, automatic prediction of patent litigation is still an open problem due to the complexity of lawsuits. In this paper, we propose a data-driven framework, Convolutional Tensor Factorization (CTF), to identify the patents that may cause litigations between two companies. Specifically, CTF is a hybrid modeling approach, where the content features from the patents are represented by the Network embedding-combined Convolutional Neural Network (NCNN) and the lawsuit records of companies are summarized in a tensor, respectively. Then, CTF integrates NCNN and tensor factorization to systematically exploit both content information and collaborative information from large amount of data. Finally, the risky patents will be returned by a learning to rank strategy. Extensive experimental results on real-world data demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework.
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Stratan, Alexandru, and Victoria Fala. "International competitiveness, productivity and innovations." In 26th International Scientific Conference “Competitiveness and Innovation in the Knowledge Economy". Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.53486/cike2022.01.
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The countries that seek to increase their wealth and the wellbeing of their population should promote policies to increase their competitiveness and therefore to strengthen their ability to obtain decent incomes on external markets form the sales of goods and services they produce. Exports are a mean to avoid the small size of the internal market. They let companies to increase economies of scales by extending the market, to specialize and improve production processes and their products and services. Exporting companies may have access to a more sophisticated demand, to new knowledge, technologies. Thus increasing exports should spur aggregate productivity and economic growth. On the other side exports performance is a reflection of a country competitiveness. The competitive advantage of countries depends on the ability of companies to innovate and upgrade and the national environment is very important in this regards (Porter, 1990). The objective of the research is to evaluate the innovation environment, productivity and international competitiveness of the Republic of Moldova comparing to Central European countries. Some of the conclusions the authors have drawn from the undertaken research are as follows. Moldova rank significant lower comparative to the benchmark countries as concerns the innovation input sub index and knowledge impact index of the Global Innovation Index produced by Global forum of intellectual property. The knowledge impact expressed in production and exports complexity, labor productivity growth, and high tech exports of total trade is small that explains the share of Moldova in the world export market.
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Collins, Karen, Michelle Unger, and Amanda Dainis. "How Do I Ensure “Staff Competency” in My Pipeline Safety Management System?" In 2020 13th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2020-9374.
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Abstract Standards and regulations are clear: all staff who work on pipelines need to be both “competent” and “qualified.” Standards such as API 1173 are clear about competence within a safety management system: “The pipeline operator shall ensure that personnel whose responsibilities fall within the scope of the PSMS [Pipeline Safety Management System] have an appropriate level of competence in terms of education, training, knowledge, and experience.” The burden of defining and specifying competence falls on pipeline operators, but they have little guidance regarding the required skills, knowledge and levels of competency. Additionally, we are all biased — different operators will have different ideas and emphases on competencies, which will affect their decision-making. The only way to avoid these cognitive biases is to use consensus standards supported by rigorous surveys that capture the required competencies. This paper explores some of the more common biases that can affect decisions and presents the results of a controlled, independent, survey aimed at both specifying and quantifying the necessary competencies needed by a specific engineer working within a PSMS: a pipeline integrity engineer. The paper identifies and ranks these necessary competences. The survey was completed by 100 pipeline integrity engineers from 25 different countries. Its specific objective was to investigate the key skills and knowledge requirements needed in a junior engineering position (i.e., a pipeline engineer with less than three years of relevant experience) working under supervision to be ‘competent’. It listed eight core competencies (identified by subject matter experts) considered essential for a pipeline integrity engineer. Each of these core competencies contained a set of skills. Respondents were first asked to rank the eight core competences, and then rank the skills within the competency. An analysis of the data provides insights into how 100 pipeline integrity engineers view the key skills required to be “competent.” The results of the survey can assist pipeline companies in setting objective competency requirements for their engineering personnel, developing learning programs to address any gaps, and improve the overall safety of their pipeline system.
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Mann, J. Adin, Daniel Eilers, Trent Jackson, Rob Swindell, Christopher Middleton, David Arnett, Nicolas Horder, Hisao Izuchi, and Geoff Evans. "Testing System Set-Up to Evaluate Acoustic Induced Vibration." In ASME 2016 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2016-63816.
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A consortium of companies is collaborating in a Joint Industry Project (JIP) for Acoustic Induced Vibration (AIV). Laboratory testing is one of the work areas of the JIP. The goals of the tests are to evaluate typical pipe fittings for AIV induced fatigue, to rank order their AIV risk and to obtain data for validation of computational models. An NPS6x8 (6R8) pressure safety valve was the flow and noise input to a 10S piping system, which consisted of an NPS12 tailpipe input into an NPS12x20 tee. Small bore connectors (SBCs) were included in both the NPS12 tailpipe and the NPS20 header. The type of fitting used as the connection between the SBC and the pipe was varied. The system was operating in a Carucci-Mueller acoustic power of around 175 dB. Vibration acceleration response of the system was measured, and dynamic strain data was also gathered to evaluate fatigue life. The piping and data acquisition system setup will be discussed along with the type of results that are being obtained.
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Stephens, M. J., and M. A. Nessim. "Pipeline Maintenance Planning Based on Quantitative Risk Analysis." In 1996 1st International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc1996-1815.
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The integrity of aging pipeline systems is a major concern for operating companies. Because maintenance budgets are limited by economic constraints, operators must decide on how to best allocate the available maintenance resources. Optimal resource allocation involves the identification of high risk segments, and the determination of integrity maintenance activities for those segments that will lead to the highest reduction in overall operating risk. To identify high risk segments it is necessary to quantify the probability of line failure and to evaluate the consequences associated with different types of failure. To identify optimal maintenance activities for high risk segments it is also necessary to quantify the reductions in failure probabilities associated with various candidate integrity maintenance activities. Under the sponsorship of a number of pipeline companies and Government Agencies, C-FER has initiated a Joint Industry Program (JIP), to develop quantitative risk-based models and software tools for estimating the current level of operating risk and the risk reduction potential associated with distinct segments of pipe within a pipeline system. The key steps in the methodology are system prioritization and maintenance optimization. At the prioritization stage, segment-specific attributes are processed to provide an estimate of the failure rate for individual segments, and an estimate of the potential consequences of line failure. The failure rates are then combined with the loss potential into a measure of risk, and used to rank segments according to the calculated level of operating risk. At the maintenance optimization stage, a formal decision analysis approach is employed to identify the best maintenance strategy for high risk segments based on a comparison of the costs and risk reductions associated with each available option.
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Logachev, Yury, Lidia Grauer, and Pavel Serdyukov. "Tuning parameters of the expected reciprocal rank." In the 21st international conference companion. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2187980.2188132.
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O'Reilly, Gerard, and Alvin W. Chan. "Navigating the Depleted Fracture Gradient During Operations: From Concept to Drilling, Open Hole FIT Management & Cementing." In International Petroleum Technology Conference. IPTC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2523/iptc-21405-ms.
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Abstract Depleted Fracture Gradients have been a challenge for the oil and gas industry during drilling and cementing operations for over 30 years. Yet, year after year, problems related to lost circulation, borehole instability (low mud weight due a low fracture gradient), and losses during cementing operations leading to NPT and remedial work continue to rank as some of the top NPT events that companies face. This paper will demonstrate how the geomechanical modeling, well execution and remedial strengthening operations should be implemented to provide for a successful outcome. The use of a Fracture Gradient (FG) framework will be discussed, and the use of a negotiated fracture gradient will highlight how the fracture gradient can be changed during operations. This paper will also show actual examples from Deepwater operations that have successfully executed a detailed borehole strengthening program. Through our offset studies and operational experience, we will provide a format for navigating complex depleted drilling issues and show an example on recovering from low fracture gradients. This paper will demonstrate (1) how our framework facilitated multi-disciplinary collaborative discussion among our subsurface and well engineering communities; (2) how the impacts of drilling fluids and operational procedures can change this lost circulation threshold; and (3) how our negotiated FG approach has successfully delivered wells drilled in narrow margins.
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"Assessment of Impact on Project Cost and Schedule Due to Material Mismanagement in Trivandrum." In The International Conference on scientific innovations in Science, Technology, and Management. International Journal of Advanced Trends in Engineering and Management, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.59544/qvbw1742/ngcesi23p104.
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The paper aims to fill a void created by the absence of proper materials management on construction sites. Research has shown that construction materials accounts for 50-60% of the total cost in construction projects. For a productive and cost efficiency, material management is very essential. Material mismanagement decrease the contractor’s profit leading to huge losses, and leaving the project in big troubles, therefore the proper management of this single largest component can improve the productivity and cost efficiency of a project and help ensure its timely completion. The existing construction material management practices of contracting companies are investigated in this paper. The study was exclusively assessed through questionnaire survey, interviews, field visits and discussion with the concerned authorities. 26 factors were selected for the proper assessment of most critical factors. The population for this research was all ongoing building construction project sites in Trivandrum and purposive sampling techniques were used. To achieve these research objectives questionnaire survey and interviews were used to collect relevant data from contractors, consultants and client representatives on-site. A total of 45 valid questionnaire survey was returned 31(83.78%) from contractors, 9(81.82%) from consultants and 5(62.50%) from clients. So that, based on the respondent’s agreement the relative importance index (RII) value and percentage were used to rank and explain their agreement by using Microsoft excel.
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Walker, David J., Richard M. Everson, and Jonathan E. Fieldsend. "Rank-based dimension reduction for many-criteria populations." In the 13th annual conference companion. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2001858.2001919.
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Pujari, Manisha, and Rushed Kanawati. "Supervised rank aggregation approach for link prediction in complex networks." In the 21st international conference companion. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2187980.2188260.
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Lazonick, William, Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz. The Unmaking of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36687/inetwp159.
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In the decade after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, African Americans made historic gains in accessing employment opportunities in racially integrated workplaces in U.S. business firms and government agencies. In the previous working papers in this series, we have shown that in the 1960s and 1970s, Blacks without college degrees were gaining access to the American middle class by moving into well-paid unionized jobs in capital-intensive mass production industries. At that time, major U.S. companies paid these blue-collar workers middle-class wages, offered stable employment, and provided employees with health and retirement benefits. Of particular importance to Blacks was the opening up to them of unionized semiskilled operative and skilled craft jobs, for which in a number of industries, and particularly those in the automobile and electronic manufacturing sectors, there was strong demand. In addition, by the end of the 1970s, buoyed by affirmative action and the growth of public-service employment, Blacks were experiencing upward mobility through employment in government agencies at local, state, and federal levels as well as in civil-society organizations, largely funded by government, to operate social and community development programs aimed at urban areas where Blacks lived. By the end of the 1970s, there was an emergent blue-collar Black middle class in the United States. Most of these workers had no more than high-school educations but had sufficient earnings and benefits to provide their families with economic security, including realistic expectations that their children would have the opportunity to move up the economic ladder to join the ranks of the college-educated white-collar middle class. That is what had happened for whites in the post-World War II decades, and given the momentum provided by the dominant position of the United States in global manufacturing and the nation’s equal employment opportunity legislation, there was every reason to believe that Blacks would experience intergenerational upward mobility along a similar education-and-employment career path. That did not happen. Overall, the 1980s and 1990s were decades of economic growth in the United States. For the emerging blue-collar Black middle class, however, the experience was of job loss, economic insecurity, and downward mobility. As the twentieth century ended and the twenty-first century began, moreover, it became apparent that this downward spiral was not confined to Blacks. Whites with only high-school educations also saw their blue-collar employment opportunities disappear, accompanied by lower wages, fewer benefits, and less security for those who continued to find employment in these jobs. The distress experienced by white Americans with the decline of the blue-collar middle class follows the downward trajectory that has adversely affected the socioeconomic positions of the much more vulnerable blue-collar Black middle class from the early 1980s. In this paper, we document when, how, and why the unmaking of the blue-collar Black middle class occurred and intergenerational upward mobility of Blacks to the college-educated middle class was stifled. We focus on blue-collar layoffs and manufacturing-plant closings in an important sector for Black employment, the automobile industry from the early 1980s. We then document the adverse impact on Blacks that has occurred in government-sector employment in a financialized economy in which the dominant ideology is that concentration of income among the richest households promotes productive investment, with government spending only impeding that objective. Reduction of taxes primarily on the wealthy and the corporate sector, the ascendancy of political and economic beliefs that celebrate the efficiency and dynamism of “free market” business enterprise, and the denigration of the idea that government can solve social problems all combined to shrink government budgets, diminish regulatory enforcement, and scuttle initiatives that previously provided greater opportunity for African Americans in the government and civil-society sectors.