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Bargaining Chains (Long Version)
Lovejoy, William S. - 2010
We consider a firm that designs a new product and wishes to bring it to market, but does not have ownership or control over all of the resources required to make that happen. The firm must select and contract with one of several possible tier 1 suppliers for necessary inputs, who do the same...
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L'enseignement du contrôle de gestion est-il déconnecté de la pratique des contrôleurs de gestion ?
David, Gilles - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
For the Academics there is a difference between the teaching of management control and the practice of controllers. Why … this distinction ? This paper shows that management control is a management performance process. The management control …
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Moving On Training program
Garner, Gary O.; Faizi, Naysan; Paroz, Colin; Norton, … - 1998
enabled with greater customer loyalty, and improved sales through better individual store business management and marketing …
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Forecasting Field Defect Rates Using a Combined Time-based and Metrics-based Approach: a Case Study of OpenBSD
Luo Li, Paul; Herbsleb, James; Shaw, Mary - 2005
Open source software systems are critical infrastructure for many applications; however, little has been precisely measured about their quality. Forecasting the field defect-occurrence rate over the entire lifespan of a release before deployment for open source software systems may enable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009440981
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Competitive strategies in Australia's airline deregulation experience
Douglas, Evan J.; Cunningham, Lawrence J. - 1992
19, 1991. Compass management (and much of public opinion) blamed the Government, and the Government (and the incumbent … airlines) blamed Compass management, for the opportunities lost. But all parties probably now agree that there have been … Compass Airlines in terms of management's failure to single-mindedly pursue its optimal strategy. It concludes that despite …
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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia
Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009
business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities … half of Australian universities did not explicitly identify sustainability as part of their business/management curricula …
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VPSIRR (Vulnerability - Pressure - State - Impact - Risk And Response): An Approach To Determine The Condition Of Estuaries And To Assess Where Management Responses Are
Rissik, D.; Cox, M.; Moss, A.; Rose, D.; Scheltinga, D.; … - 2005
. Effective management intervention can be achieved when there is an understanding of the current condition of the estuary or … to the pressure (risk), the management activity can be prioritised. A framework based on the Pressure … appropriate management actions. It also enables information to be provided to the community in a user-friendly manner. We have …
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Demographic effects on the use of vertical sources of guidance by managers in widely differing cultural contexts
Smith, Peter B.; Peterson, Mark F.; Ahmad, Abd Halim; … - 2005
. The implications for theory and practice of the use of demographic attributes in understanding effective management …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448324
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Water Management and Technological Change: Village Dams in Sri Lanka
Mahendrarajah, S.; Warr, P. G. - 1991
the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka. The tradiational water management practices observed in these villages are based on common … technology produces a dramatic increase in rise output, but the traditional water-management practices then become less efficient …. The paper dfemonstrates a method for determining the nature of an efficient water-management system and for estimating the …
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Decision-Making and Ecosystem-Based Management: Applying the Vroom-Yetton Model to Public Participation Strategy
Daniels, Steven E.; Lawrence, Rick L.; Alig, Ralph J. - 1996
participation principles and low levels of public satisfaction. Ecosystem-based management generally involves mixed land ownerships … ecosystem-based management. The model recommends a public decision process unless developing new alternatives is not possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468709