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Empirical evidence that access to higher education is constrained by credit availability is limited and usually … indirect. This paper provides direct evidence by comparing university enrollment rates of South African potential students … matched individual data from both a credit institution (Eduloan) and the Department of Education. Based on a regression …
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This paper presents an alternative methodological approach to O-D matrix and analyses its validity on the viewpoint of Bonnafous' operability triangle. The proposed model is able to estimate the impacts of urban goods movements in terms of number of vehicles, total travelled distances and road...
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Urban goods transport is one of the subjects decision makers have to take into account in the planning process. As they lack knowledge on this particular subject, they tend to underestimate the importance of urban goods movements on their territory. Through the example of "La Confluence"...
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The combined pressures of desintermediation, deregulation, and industrial restructuring have helped to redefine the nature and importance of bank-client relationships (Schell, 1996). Directors or treasurers of companies often recognize that their relationship is with the bank account manager,...
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The quality process is a fashionable concept in public transport. Operators try to improve service quality and customer satisfaction, while public authorities impose the implementation of new quality processes in franchise contracts. EFQM differs from other quality models because of its global...
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This paper introduces a methodology whose aim is to evaluate how the quality of a freight distribution service with time windows, which operates on a given road network to satisfy a number of requests, affects the total cost of the distribution service . The result of a service quality setting,...
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customer advisors and 3 client of each (348 client). To do so, an internal marketing performance measurement scale has been …
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In order to improve the quality of service co-production, both academics and managers have pointed out the pivotal role of front-line employees (FLEs) in improving the service experience. Few studies, however, have simultaneously examined the quality perceptions of each group. Do FLEs perceive...
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Purpose : The main aim of the present article is to study the adoption and diffusion of a recent practice : sustainable development reporting by (and within) French universities. Theoretical background, approach taken and methods of analysis : To better understand and analyse this organisational...
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In Switzerland, Latin American Studies are in a paradoxical situation in which most professors/researchers of the country in particular in the French speaking part are very pessimistic about their status, while the situation in the German speaking part seems to improve. It is important to keep...
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