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Families’ and children’s experience of sport and informal activity in Olympic areas of the East End

Davidson, Rosemary; Power, Anne T. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Sport England is interested to know how families with children experience the following aspects ofneighbourhood life …: involvement in sport; access to facilities; activities for young people; and theengagement of young people in poor areas in the … Olympic development. Sport England wantedevidence from our research tracking the experiences of 100 families over eight years …

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Venturing Beyond the Marathon: The Entrepreneurship of Ultrarunning and the IAU World Cup in Korea

Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

s sporting culture. Macro-environmental factors include the economic crisis and Korean cultural values of comradery, emotional …

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Globalization of Sports : the Case of Professional Football and itsInternational Management Challenges

Dolles, Harald; Söderman, Sten - Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien <Tokyo - 2005

The formation and the diversity of most types of organizations goinginternational are well researched. However, some aspects of postmodernlife, such as sports and entertainment, are presently growing in importanceand management complexity.

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A crisis of economy as crisis of culture - The "Asian capitalism" and its observation

Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 1999

Der "rationale Kapitalismus" ist kein Phänomen der Realität, sondern seinerseits eine Selbstbeschreibung des Beobachters, die dann vor allem auch in normativen Analysen eingesetzt wird. Dann entpuppt sich die "Asienkrise" plötzlich als eine Krise der Kultur des Beobachters, der seiner eigenen...

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Arbeiten und Lernen : Lernkultur Kompetenzentwicklung und Innovative Arbeitsgestaltung

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Qualifikations-Entwicklungs-Management - 2001

Vorliegendes Dokument veröffentlicht die grundlegenden Programmdokumente der Programme Lernkultur Kompetenzentwicklung und Innovative Arbeitsgestaltung.

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Environmental Management Systems and Cultural Differences : an Explorative Study of Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden

Baumast, Annett - 2002

Die vorliegende Dissertation befasst sich mit kulturellen Unterschieden von Umweltmanagementsystemen (UMS) in Deutschland, Grossbritannien und Schweden. Unter Verwendung des Kulturdimensionen-Konzepts von Geert Hofstede werden mögliche Felder kultureller Unterschiede von...

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Competition of Multinationals from Different CulturalBackgrounds: Does Familiarity Breed Contempt?

Kwon, Chul-Woo; Lapan, Harvey E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

This paper considers competition between two multinationals (U, J) who compete in a third market (K).The multinationals have similar cost structures, but differ in that J comes from a country that is “culturallysimilar” to K, and hence produces products that match more closely the...

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Zur kulturellen Dimension nachhaltiger Entwicklung -Eine metatheoretische und diskursanalytischeBestandsaufnahme

Kuhn, M.A. Katina - Institut für Umweltkommunikation <Lüneburg> - 2006

Die Frage nach der Bedeutung von Kultur für das Konzept nachhaltiger Entwicklung istAusgangspunkt des vorliegenden Beitrags. Zwei divergente Beobachtungen gaben Anstoßfür die Formulierung dieser Fragestellung: erstens spielte in den Formulierungen des 1987vorgelegten Brundtland-Berichts, dem...

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Time Preferences, Culture, and Household Debt Maturity Choice

Breuer, Wolfgang; Hens, Thorsten; Salzmann, Astrid Juliane - National Centre of Competence in Research - Financial … - 2011

and explore the role of culture in this context.We show that culture is not only a reasonable predictor for planning … culture, time preferences, and planning horizon, and highlight the importance of culture forfinancial decisions.[...] …

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MEASURING BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPSUCCESS:The Case of an Industrial TextilesManufacturer

Vershinina, Natalia - Leicester Business School - 2007

This exploratory paper investigates why some companies appear to find successful business relationshipsrelatively effortless. It seems that the organisation’s search for and utilisation of key resources canguarantee its success in the market place. The paper incorporates a critique of...

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