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Allocations of research funds across programs are often made for efficiency reasons. Social science research is shown … are simultaneously taken into account. Farm management and marketing research variables are used to explain variations in … research impacts in a way that is less restrictive than popular polynomial distributed lags. Results are reported in terms of …
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Australasian countries have huge numbers of young entrepreneurs. Yet the state of entrepreneurship education in this … field study in North America and Europe to examine inter-disciplinary initiatives that take the study of entrepreneurship … and categorises best-practice models of enterprise education, focussing especially on non-business entrepreneurship and …
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Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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Prior research documents that gains from non-recurring transactions flow through to CEOs' compensation, but that losses … effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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offshore outsourcing.The objectives of this research are:1. To analyze the differences between the theory and the practice … considering the following research question: Arethe types of Premedia work that lend themselves to offshore outsourcing rules … based?This is exploratory research which identifies sixty-eight individual tasks inPremedia and categorizes them as fully …
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Accountable Care Organizations are developing in the United States as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A study is needed to evaluate an emerging issue of ACOs, quality improvement infrastructure, and the pharmaceutical industry. The convergence of these topics has not...
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Corporate restructuring is normally analyzed with reference to economic imperatives and the inherited geographical structure of production. The economic landscape is assumed to be the consequence of private decisions made in response to these structural factors. If understanding and empirically...
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In a previous study of US city inflation, I emphasized the temporal regularities of urban price inflation. But, despite these identified regularities, it is apparent that the process of inflation is rarely so regular and so systematic. Unanticipated shocks in three components, energy food, and...
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Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven US cities over the period 1972 - 1980. Conventional neoclassical discrete-exchange models of the labor market are shown to be inadequate because of marked rigidities in the...
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Employers have a variety of reasons for attempting to stabilize turnover in their labour force. For example, specific skill requirements, the added costs of training inherent in hiring new workers, and the absolute demand for labour may stimulate firms to minimize labour turnover. One way of...
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