OYO (The Journey)

2021 ◽  
pp. 196-206
Author(s):  
Ruhi Bhardwaj ◽  
Namrata Sandhu
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Revenue Model ◽  
Global Presence

From a humble beginning in 2013, OYO is today the world's second-largest hospitality chain of franchised and leased hotels, living spaces, and homes. OYO has a global presence with large-scale operations in many countries. This case outlines OYO's complicated growth journey from a rapidly growing startup to an ethically maligned business venture. It also underscores OYO's business and revenue model, work culture, and growth strategies. It also provides a sneak peek about the major problems faced by OYO and how OYO should cope with these challenges.

People’s Movement in Odisha: An Assessment

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-283
Author(s):  
Subhendu Ranjan Raj
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
The State ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up

Development process in Odisha (before 2011 Orissa) may have led to progress but has also resulted in large-scale dispossession of land, homesteads, forests and also denial of livelihood and human rights. In Odisha as the requirements of development increase, the arena of contestation between the state/corporate entities and the people has correspondingly multiplied because the paradigm of contemporary model of growth is not sustainable and leads to irreparable ecological/environmental costs. It has engendered many people’s movements. Struggles in rural Odisha have increasingly focused on proactively stopping of projects, mining, forcible land, forest and water acquisition fallouts from government/corporate sector. Contemporaneously, such people’s movements are happening in Kashipur, Kalinga Nagar, Jagatsinghpur, Lanjigarh, etc. They have not gained much success in achieving their objectives. However, the people’s movement of Baliapal in Odisha is acknowledged as a success. It stopped the central and state governments from bulldozing resistance to set up a National Missile Testing Range in an agriculturally rich area in the mid-1980s by displacing some lakhs of people of their land, homesteads, agricultural production, forests and entitlements. A sustained struggle for 12 years against the state by using Gandhian methods of peaceful civil disobedience movement ultimately won and the government was forced to abandon its project. As uneven growth strategies sharpen, the threats to people’s human rights, natural resources, ecology and subsistence are deepening. Peaceful and non-violent protest movements like Baliapal may be emulated in the years ahead.

scholarly journals An Assessment of Different Integration Strategies of Hydrothermal Carbonisation and Anaerobic Digestion of Water Hyacinth

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 5983
Author(s):  
Aaron E. Brown ◽  
Jessica M. M. Adams ◽  
Oliver R. Grasham ◽  
Miller Alonso Camargo-Valero ◽  
Andrew B. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Water Hyacinth ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Aquatic Macrophyte ◽  
Integration Strategy ◽  
Bioenergy Generation ◽  
Global Presence ◽  
Freshwater Bodies ◽  
Hydrothermal Carbonisation ◽  
Integration Strategies

Water hyacinth (WH) is an invasive aquatic macrophyte that dominates freshwater bodies across the world. However, due to its rapid growth rate and wide-spread global presence, WH could offer great potential as a biomass feedstock, including for bioenergy generation. This study compares different integration strategies of hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) and anaerobic digestion (AD) using WH, across a range of temperatures. These include (i) hydrochar combustion and process water digestion, (ii) hydrochar digestion, (iii) slurry digestion. HTC reactions were conducted at 150 °C, 200 °C, and 250 °C. Separation of hydrochars for combustion and process waters for digestion offers the most energetically-feasible valorisation route. However, hydrochars produced from WH display slagging and fouling tendencies; limiting their use in large-scale combustion. AD of WH slurry produced at 150 °C appears to be energetically-feasible and has the potential to also be a viable integration strategy between HTC and AD, using WH.

scholarly journals Valuation of firms with multiple business units

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Dierkes ◽  
Ulrich Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Firm Value ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Driver Model ◽  
Business Unit ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Business Units ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Constant Growth

Abstract Corporate valuation often relies on the assumption of a constant and homogenous growth rate. However, large firms frequently (re)balance their activities by diverting cash flows from some business units to fund investments in other units. We develop a value driver model of terminal value for a firm with two units. The model relaxes common assumptions and allows for cross-unit differences in the return on invested capital. We consider intra-unit and cross-unit investments and show their implications for firm value and the long-term development of key accounting variables. Our results help characterize business unit strategies that can be reconciled with popular firm strategies such as the constant payout and constant growth strategies. We find that popular valuation methods that assume both constant payout ratios and constant growth rates (e.g., Gordon and Shapiro, Manage Sci 3:102–110, 1956) constitute a restrictive special case of our model and should only be applied to firms with homogenous business units. We use a simulation analysis to compare our results with alternative valuation models and to illustrate the economic relevance of our findings. The simulation shows that an accurate depiction of business unit strategy is particularly useful if firms plan large-scale cross-unit investments into business units with high returns and if the cost of capital is low.

Strategies for Promoting Virtual Higher Education: General Considerations on Africa and Asia

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossain Shanawez ◽  
Kazuo Kuroda
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Virtual Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
The North ◽  
Prohibitive Cost ◽  
Virtual Higher Education

AbstractEducation in general, and specifically higher education, plays an important role in the development process of all nations. Institutions of higher education have an important responsibility to support knowledge-driven economic growth strategies. This paper investigates the strategies of how by applying technologies on a large scale—with close attention to quality—virtual education can help higher education to find a way through the crisis of access, prohibitive cost, and lack of flexibility that we find all over the developing world. By addressing various issues related to planning, implementation, and quality with proper strategies, virtual education can provide immense opportunity to reduce the North-South knowledge gap and also to promote the development of the developing world. This paper reviews various issues related to promotion and quality control in virtual higher education and addresses possible strategies with general considerations of Africa and Asia.

Root Causes of New Hotel Opening Delays in China

2016 ◽  
pp. 2038-2066
Author(s):  
Gert Noordzy ◽  
Richard Whitfield
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Causal Chain ◽  
Hotel Management ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
General Lack ◽  
Chain Analysis ◽  
Development Pipeline ◽  
Future Growth

In China, at least three new 150+ room hotels will be opened every day for the next 25 years according to available development pipeline data (Yang, 2011; Lodging Econometrics, 2013). This phenomenal rate of hotel construction has major implications for how new hotels are opened on such a large scale. China is a vital growth market for the global hotel industry, yet many of these hotel openings are being considerably delayed. This chapter reviews the future growth strategies and plans of the major international hotel companies in China, and examines the causes for these setbacks. The authors used a Causal Chain Analysis on data that were acquired from over 80 interviews with hotel management professionals in 2009. There was an overwhelming general lack of understanding of project management methodologies, concepts, and structures. These were found to be key problem areas (Thomas, Delisle, & Jugdev, 2001).

scholarly journals Distinct Growth Strategies of Soil Bacteria as Revealed by Large-Scale Colony Tracking

2011 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 1345-1352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Ernebjerg ◽  
Roy Kishony
Keyword(s):  
Species Interactions ◽  
Soil Bacteria ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Colony Growth ◽  
Automated Image Analysis ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Phenotypic Data ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Growth Properties

ABSTRACTOur understanding of microbial ecology has been significantly furthered in recent years by advances in sequencing techniques, but comprehensive surveys of the phenotypic characteristics of environmental bacteria remain rare. Such phenotypic data are crucial for understanding the microbial strategies for growth and the diversity of microbial ecosystems. Here, we describe a high-throughput measurement of the growth of thousands of bacterial colonies using an array of flat-bed scanners coupled with automated image analysis. We used this system to investigate the growth properties of members of a microbial community from untreated soil. The system provides high-quality measurements of the number of CFU, colony growth rates, and appearance times, allowing us to directly study the distribution of these properties in mixed environmental samples. We find that soil bacteria display a wide range of growth strategies which can be grouped into several clusters that cannot be reduced to any of the classical dichotomous divisions of soil bacteria, e.g., into copiotophs and oligotrophs. We also find that, at early times, cells are most likely to form colonies when other, nearby colonies are present but not too dense. This maximization of culturability at intermediate plating densities suggests that the previously observed tendency for high density to lead to fewer colonies is partly offset by the induction of colony formation caused by interactions between microbes. These results suggest new types of growth classification of soil bacteria and potential effects of species interactions on colony growth.

scholarly journals Adiwiyata (Green School) Program Optimization Strategy in Malang Regency to Realize Environmentally Friendly School Citizens

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-137
Author(s):  
Hana Naqiyya Nada ◽  
Rhina Uchyani Fajarningsih ◽  
Okid Parama Astirin
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
School Level ◽  
Program Optimization ◽  
Optimization Strategy ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Strategy Formulation ◽  
High School Level ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

Globalization encourages rampant development by exploiting natural resources on a large scale. Adiwiyata program is a manifestation of environmental education to raise awareness and concern about the environment. However, the number of Adiwiyata schools is still small, and its implementation has met challenges and obstacles. The research aims to formulate a development strategy for the Adiwiyata program to run optimally and achieve the goals. The research was conducted in Adiwiyata elementary school,  junior high, and high school level in Malang regency consisting of Adiwiyata Award school (National or Independent) and Adiwiyata non-Award (District or Province).The study used a qualitative descriptive method with IFAS and EFAS matrices, and then a SWOT and QSPM analysis was performed. The results revealed that Adiwiyata program implementation in Malang Regency was carried out quite well. Several supporting factors and obstacles came from inside and outside the school. The planning and growth strategies were formulated for the Adiwiyata non-awarded schools in quadrant II (2.24; -0.08), while the rewarded Adiwiyata schools were in quadrant I (2.35; 2.88) with alternative development and sustainability strategies. The strategy formulation results are expected to be used as a reference in the development of the Adiwiyata program in Malang Regency.

scholarly journals DIVERSIFIKASI USAHA DAN MANAJEMEN LABA DENGAN PENDEKATAN CONDITIONAL REVENUE MODEL

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
Matthew Haryanto ◽  
Lina Lina
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Accounting Standard ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
Revenue Model

Generally, go public companies are belong to large-scale companies or even international ones. Mostly those companies have more than one business divisions, therefore the financial reports might be published in more than one segments. According to Financial Accounting Standard 5, the company financial reports can be distinguished between geographical segments and operating segments. This study aims to give the empirical evidence about the influence of the business diversification towards earnings management. The amount of the geography segments and the operating segments are used as proxy to represent the business diversification. The earnings management is measured by conditional revenue model. The data is collected from the company annual reports by accessing through Indonesia Stock Exchange website for period 2011-2013. The sampling method used is purposive sampling. Data analysis used multiple linear regressions. The result of the study shows that the geography segments have no influence on the earnings management, meanwhile the operating segments have positive influence on earnings management.

scholarly journals Projecting Urbanization and Landscape Change at Large Scale Using the FUTURES Model

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Van Berkel ◽  
Ashwin Shashidharan ◽  
Rua Mordecai ◽  
Raju Vatsavai ◽  
Anna Petrasova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Landscape Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Land Change ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Modelling Framework

Increasing population and rural to urban migration are accelerating urbanization globally, permanently transforming natural systems over large extents. Modelling landscape change over large regions, however, presents particular challenges due to local-scale variations in social and environmental factors that drive land change. We simulated urban development across the South Atlantic States (SAS), a region experiencing rapid population growth and urbanization, using FUTURES—an open source land change model that uses demand for development, local development suitability factors, and a stochastic patch growing algorithm for projecting alternative futures of urban form and landscape change. New advances to the FUTURES modelling framework allow for high resolution projections over large spatial extents by leveraging parallel computing. We simulated the adoption of different urban growth strategies that encourage settlement densification in the SAS as alternatives to the region’s increasing sprawl. Evaluation of projected patterns indicate a 15% increase in urban lands by 2050 given a status quo development scenario compared to a 14.8% increase for the Infill strategy. Status quo development resulted in a 3.72% loss of total forests, 2.97% loss of highly suitable agricultural land, and 3.69% loss of ecologically significant lands. An alternative Infill scenario resulted in similar losses of total forest (3.62%) and ecologically significant lands (3.63%) yet consumed less agricultural lands (1.23% loss). Moreover, infill development patterns differed qualitatively from the status quo and resulted in less fragmentation of the landscape.

Root Causes of New Hotel Opening Delays in China

2015 ◽  
pp. 43-72
Author(s):  
Gert Noordzy ◽  
Richard Whitfield
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Causal Chain ◽  
Hotel Management ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
General Lack ◽  
Chain Analysis ◽  
Development Pipeline ◽  
Future Growth

In China, at least three new 150+ room hotels will be opened every day for the next 25 years according to available development pipeline data (Yang, 2011; Lodging Econometrics, 2013). This phenomenal rate of hotel construction has major implications for how new hotels are opened on such a large scale. China is a vital growth market for the global hotel industry, yet many of these hotel openings are being considerably delayed. This chapter reviews the future growth strategies and plans of the major international hotel companies in China, and examines the causes for these setbacks. The authors used a Causal Chain Analysis on data that were acquired from over 80 interviews with hotel management professionals in 2009. There was an overwhelming general lack of understanding of project management methodologies, concepts, and structures. These were found to be key problem areas (Thomas, Delisle, & Jugdev, 2001).

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