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Preliminary Evidence on the Structure and Determinants of Global Corporate Reputations

Cordeiro, James J.; Schwalbach, Joachim - 2000

Drawing on the Fortune Global Reputation Survey in 1997, we re-examine some of the key findings of earlier researchers who have used the domestic Fortune Reputation Surveys to test the universality of these findings. We find that the global results are very similar to the domestic results in...

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EFONET: Assessment of Energy Foresight in the EU

Institut für Zukunftsforschung <Berlin, West> - 2009

Within the EFONET Coordination Action, an analysis of the state of the art of energy foresight activities in the EU countries has beencarried out in order to assess the transferability of the “good practices” learnt from the national foresight experiences towards energyforesight on the...

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Getting Less for More: Economic Evaluation in theSocial Welfare Field

Sefton, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

Economic evaluation has an important role in helping to make decisionsabout the use of scarce resources in an explicit … and rational manner, yeteconomic evaluation is not well-developed in many areas of socialwelfare. This paper looks at the … evaluation may not always be appropriate,because of the nature of many social welfare interventions and becauseevaluators need to …

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The Abolition of the GP Fundholding Scheme: a Lesson inEvidence-based Policy Making

Kay, Adrian - Welsh Enterprise Institute <Pontypridd> - 2001

before its abolition.This was because there was no systematic evaluation of GP fundholding and the decision toabolish it was …

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Student perceptions of enterprise education in Poland

Jones, Paul; Jones, Amanda; Packham, Gary A.; Edwards, … - Welsh Enterprise Institute <Pontypridd> - 2006

This study appraises the delivery of a dedicated enterprise education module to a group of Polish students and evaluates its impact and effectiveness in encouraging previously nascent entrepreneurial activity. Current enterprise education debate questions the effective construction of...

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Teachers' Evaluations and the Definition of the Situation inthe Classroom

Becker, Dominik A.; Birkelbach, Klaus - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2011

The theoretical contribution of this paper is to regard teachers’ evaluations with a prognostic claim aboutstudents’ future academic ability as a result of a special social situation in the classroom. We assume thatafter teachers have framed the social situation, particular scripts of action...

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New metrics for evaluating preference maps

Faure, Corinne; Natter, Martin - Universität <Frankfurt, Main> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2010

Preference maps provide a visual representation of market structure, usually depicting brand or product alternatives, product attributes, and customers in a single graphic. Using measures of consideration and attribute sets to establish criterion validity, we develop a set of metrics that can be...

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The IZA Evaluation Dataset:Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making

Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many Europeancountries. In recent years, a …. Therefore, information that might be relevantfor economic modeling is often absent. The IZA Evaluation Dataset aims to overcome … sampling andcontents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset and outlines the future development.... …

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They`re Natural and Everywhere : How Evaluative Practices Permeate the Organization

Maier, Florentine; Brandl, Julia - Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft

How do evaluative practices become natural and ubiquitous in an organization? In this paper we integratefindings from previous empirical work on the adoption of evaluative practices in organizations with insightsfrom institutional theory and social psychology research for advancing the...

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Econometric Causality

Heckman, James J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy problems. New causal parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems...

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