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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia

Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009

sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities … skills will influence the extent to which business sustainability will be achieved. The findings demonstrate that more than …

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The impact of high Telecommunications costs on the callcentre industry in Cape Town, South Africa

Ngobeni, Robson Mpande - 2009

This study provides a comprehensive overview of challenges and obstacles that are caused by high telecommunications costs within the callcentre industry in Cape Town, South Africa. This study couldn’t have come at a better time considering the current turbulent economic circumstances around...

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Information internalisation in internationalising the firm

Knight, G. A.; Liesch, P. W. - 2002

Internationalisation occurs when the firm expands its selling, production, or other business activities into …

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Dual paths to performance: the impact of global pressures on MNC subsidiary conduct and performance

Venaik, S.; Midgley, D. F.; Devinney, T. M. - 2005

Over the last decade, the international business literature has placed ever-greater emphasis on the role that learning …

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Systemic absorptive capacity: creating early-to-market returns through R&D alliances

Newey, Lance R.; Shulman, Arthur D. - 2004

For most complex emergent technologies, product-market success depends on efficient linkages between changing lead innovators within the R&D process. In this paper, our unit of analysis is a complex high technology product and the system of alliance linkages formed to progress a product through...

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A metafrontier production function for estimation of technical efficiencies and technology gaps for firms operating under different technologies

Battese, George E.; Rao, D. S. Prasada; O'Donnell, … - 2004

This paper presents a metafrontier production function model for firms in different groups having different technologies. The metafrontier model enables the calculation of comparable technical efficiencies for firms operating under different technologies. The model also enables the technology...

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A post-carbon aviation future: airports and the transition to a cleaner aviation sector

Kivits, Robbert; Charles, Michael B; Ryan, Neal Francis - 2010

There is an increasing global interest in sustainable aviation technologies as a result of concerns associated with the carbon-intensive nature of the industry and the imminence of reaching peak oil. Available options such as biofuels, liquid hydrogen and electric propulsion will not only impact...

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The relationship between income and material hardship

Sullivan, James X.; Turner, Lesley; Danziger, Sheldon - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between income and the extent of material hardship and explores other factors that might affect hardship. Using panel data from the Women's Employment Study, we examine the incidence of material hardship from 1997 to 2003 among current and former welfare...

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The impact of socialist imprinting and search on resource change: a study of firms in lithuania

Kriauciunas, Aldas; Kale, Prashant - 2006

Firms in transition economies experienced a large exogenous shock in their external business environment in the late …

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Structural homophily or social asymmetry? The formation of alliances by poorly embedded firms

Ahuja, Gautam; Polidoro, Francisco; Mitchell, Will - 2009

Recent research shows that preexisting network structure constrains the formation of new interorganizational alliances. Firms that are poorly embedded in a network structure are less likely than richly embedded firms to form alliances, because they lack informational and reputational benefits....

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