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Family businesses carry the weight of economic wealth creation in most economies. In the U.S. alone, family businesses account for 80 to 90 percent of the 18-million business enterprises in the United States, and 50 percent of the employment and GNP. In many ways, the family business is...
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forecasting principles project, which was designed to summarize all useful knowledge in forecasting, we found that journals have … sources that summarize advice (principles) from research; journals do not meet this need. To increase the rate of progress in … developing and communicating principles, researchers, journal editors, textbook writers, software developers, web site designers …
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grounded principles. As a result, academics often conduct their research as an intellectual exercise with little concern as to …
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in (relationship specific) policy expertise, and may be either policy-motivated or policy-indifferent. We show that under … specific conditions on the nature of expertise and bureaucratic discretion over policy choices, merit system protections for … job tenure encourage the development of expertise and problem solving capacity in the bureaucracy. In addition, we …
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, the original CoP concept was built around a very different set of principles to those put forward by the proponents of KM …
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This paper is focused on the solution quality and computing time requirements of heuristic methods for cost … down production cost. Results of a worst-case analysis concerning the solution quality and the computing time are presented …. An interval for the worst-case-solution quality for most heuristic methods is given. The results of an experimental …
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The Productivity of any organisation is directly correlated to the Effectiveness of the Employee Performance Appraisal System, subject to the Effectiveness of the Support Systems, depending upon the type of organizational business. INFERENCE : Technology, Systems and Manpower are linked in an...
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As commercial organisations face up to modern pressures to downsize and outsource they have begun to realise that they have lost knowledge as people leave and take with them what they know. This knowledge is increasingly being recognised as an important resource and organisations are now taking...
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This paper is concerned with cost-oriented assembly line balancing. This problem occurs especially in the final assembly of automotives, consumer durables or personal computers, where production is still very labour- intensive, and where the wage rates depend on the requirements and...
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Within the Knowledge Management context, there is growing interest in computer support for group knowledge sharing and the role that Communities of Practice play in this. Communities of Practice are groups of individuals with a common purpose and who share some background, language or...
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