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Dominica; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The Growth and Social Protection Strategy (GSPS) provides the framework for Dominica’s economic and social policies over the next five years and sets out the macroeconomic framework; the growth strategy, including the enabling environment for private enterprise and sectoral strategies;...
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An application of the CBBE model to assess brand loyalty for a long haul travel destination
Bianchi, Constanza; Pike, Steven D. - 2010
results of an investigation into destination brand loyalty for Australia as a long haul destination in a South American market … mix of previous visitors and non-visitors to Australia. Findings suggest that destination brand awareness, brand image … was not significantly related. The results also indicate that Australia is a more compelling destination brand for …
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Hotel management contracts and deficiencies in owner-operator capital expenditure goal congruency
Turner, Michael J.; Guilding, Chris - 2010
A review of the findings of prior empirical research concerning hotel management contracts between owners and operators is undertaken. It is noted that management contracts have become increasingly commonplace in the international hotel sector and that gross revenue and gross operating profit...
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Fundraising Strategies of Nonprofit Organizations: Measuring ROI and Success in a Time of Economic Crisis
Jablonski, Leslie Gwen - 2011
Fundraising is a vital part of many associations across the United States—many organizations depend greatly on the generosity of the public to continue to serve their constituents. However, what do these foundations do when the economy is not conducive to raising money? How to they alter their...
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International joint venture (IJV) marketing performance: alternative approaches to performance measurement
Julian, Craig C - 2005
This paper assesses International Joint Venture (IJV) marketing performance in the Republic of Thailand, as opposed to general business performance. Furthermore, the paper develops an objective measure to assess IJV marketing performance and compares two different types of measures for measuring...
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A Credible Approach to Benefit-Cost Evaluation for Federal Energy Technology Programs
Jordan, Gretchen B.; Ruegg, Rosalie - 2009
Lawmakers want to know the returns on their investment. The difficulties in measuring benefits and costs, and attributing some portion of those to specific research and technology development (R&D) programs, has meant that many such studies are not seen as credible by those lawmakers. This paper...
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A New Evaluation Strategy for Measuring the Returns on Investments in Medical Research
Hage, Jerald - 2009
As part of the continued efforts of the Center for Innovation to develop new evaluation strategies, we developed a new framework and proposed this in an invited white paper for a major assessment called for by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. What makes this framework new is that is...
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Value-oriented process modeling : integrating financial perspectives into business process re-design
vom Brocke, Jan; Recker, Jan C.; Mendling, Jan - 2010
Purpose ? Financial information about costs and return on investments are of key importance to strategic decision-making but also in the context of process improvement or business engineering. In this paper we propose a value-oriented approach to business process modeling based on key concepts...
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Improvement of approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of innovation
Pedersen Irina A. - In: The Problems of Economy (2012) 3, pp. 192-195
The paper proposes an improved system of methodological approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of innovation. The approaches proposed by the author involve the use of a sufficient number of indicators that comprehensively demonstrate the effectiveness of the implementation of an innovation...
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Organic Certification, Agro-Ecological Practices and Return on Investment: Farm Level Evidence from Ghana
Kleemann, Linda; Abdulai, Awudu - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
The recent empirical literature on economic sustainability of certified export crops shows that certification standards that enhance yields are important for improving farm revenues and farmer welfare. However, limited evidence exists on the impact of organic certification on the adoption of...
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