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We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals … communication in such situations may have ambiguous effects on effort choices. Communication within teams may promote higher efforts … by mitigating the internal free-rider problem. Communication between competing teams may lead to collusion, thereby …
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The design of new tourism products necessarily enters into the realm of uncertainty. Such uncertainty concerns the …
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Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To do this Rawls’ and Nozick’s perceptions of justice...
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hypothesis is that the existing body of experiences with technology foresight, technology assessment and S/T policy evaluation …
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This paper assessed empirically Nigeria’s agricultural export and economic welfare. Data used for the study were obtained from secondary sources, bulk of which was collected from institutional and national databases over 1990-2005 and were analyzed using multiple regression and growth rate...
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The study was conducted in district Swat during 2007 to assess the degree of inequalities existing among rural rice farmers’ income and land holdings. To this end, primary data was collected through structured questionnaire using a sample of one hundred rice farmers allocating to three tehsils...
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The removal of infrastructure bottlenecks is widely considered among the most profitable interventions, in socio-economic terms, and rail transport is not an exception. However, as outlined for example by RailPAG (2005), the measurement of the related benefits is difficult and no specific...
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frameworks for the assessment of anti-corruption strategies. The focus on some South-Eastern European states has a demonstrative …
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Negotiations are a means of how to solve conflicts and differences through direct communication. It is a structured … shall point to how one ought to prepare oneself for them and how to set the objectives. The assessment of the expression of …
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Indeed, it has been asserted that the most fundamental resource in the modern economy is knowledge while the most important process of economic development is learning. Therefore, e-commerce is an important contributor to the learning process which shapes economic performance. In fact, it...
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