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In this paper we provide a theoretical analysis of effects of applying different forecast diversification methods on the structure of the forecast error covariance matrices and decomposed forecast error components based on the bias- variance- Bayes error decomposition of James and Hastie. We...
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In this paper we provide experimental results and extensions to our previous theoretical findings concerning the combination of forecasts that have been diversified by three different methods: with parameters learned at different data aggregation levels, by thick modeling and by the use of...
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The combination of forecasts is a well established procedure for improving forecast performance and decreasing the risk of selecting an inferior model out of an existing pool of models. Work in this area mainly focuses on combining several functionally different models, but some publications...
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Globalization and the Internet are creating a new form of network organization characterized by networks of cooperating and competing firms. The concept of network organization advocates flexible and open organizational structures that would improve coordination among organizational units and...
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industries. Tourism and hospitality have dramatically changed by the ICTs and the Internet and gradually emerge as the leading …
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secondary aim was to understand whether the prevailing business state of crisis or growth affected the attitudes and behaviours … business states of crisis and growth can have a positive impact on some people and encourage them to adopt performance …
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In this paper we turn our attention to the classical marketing problems of product/service launch and development, by examining the emergence of the so-called ‘ruin bars’ in Budapest between 1999 and 2009. Traditionally the marketing discipline has been content with adopting the abstract...
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In this paper we turn our attention to the classical marketing problems of product/service launch and development, by examining the emergence of the so-called ‘ruin bars’ in Budapest between 1999 and 2009. Traditionally the marketing discipline has been content with adopting the abstract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429756
gain competitive advantage. This report investigates the practice of database marketing among different travel and tourism … retention and business acquisition is also investigated. In order to ensure true customer relationship building it is vital for … personalised service. Business acquisition through customer retention is likely to be a key strategy in future through the use of …
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any respect for geographic or organisational boundaries and companies will have to forge new business models, involving …
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