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DIAGNÓSTICO SÓCIO-ECONÔMICO E IMPLANTAÇÃO DE ARRANJO PRODUTIVO LOCAL (APL) DA BANANA ORGÂNICA NO RIO DE JANEIRO
Pereira, Paulo Rodrigues Fernandes; Lima, Luiz Carlos … - 2008
O agronegócio do Leite desempenha um papel importante dentro do setor agropecuário; todavia, tem sofrido os efeitos das diversas políticas macroeconômicas e setoriais. De forma semelhante, o agronegócio do leite tem relevância para o estado de Rondônia. A característica da produção no...
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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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Three Essays on the Economics of Information Systems.
Jian, Lian - 2010
My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social scientific approach to identify the strategic behavior of individuals in...
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Tale of two Koreas
Ratten, Vanessa; Waechter, Estelle - 2007
The economic performances of North and South Korea over the past decade have differed significantly. This is largely due to the government policies of the two countries, which affect business in conflicting ways. Despite the differences in economic growth, there are a number of similarities...
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Bootstrap Markov chain Monte Carlo and optimal solutions for the Law of Categorical Judgment (Corrected)
Kochanski, Greg P; Rosner, Burton S. - 2010
A novel procedure is described for accelerating the convergence of Markov chain Monte Carlo computations. The algorithm uses an adaptive bootstrap technique to generate candidate steps in the Markov Chain. It is efficient for symmetric, convex probability distributions, similar to multivariate...
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A Decision Model for Natural Oil Buying Policy under Uncertainty
Poojari, C A; Lucas, C A; Mitra, G - 2004
A manufacturer, in a fast moving consumer goods industry, buys Nat-ural oils from a number of oil suppliers world-wide. The prices of theseoils are the major raw material cost in producing the consumer goods,which are also sold world-wide. The volatility in the international pricesof the Natural...
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Is there a role for transaction cost economics if we view firms as complex adaptive systems?
Foster, J. - 2000
, which deals with decision making in contexts that are presumed to be simple and, therefore, disconnected from complex …
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An Evaluation of American Companies that Outsource Manufacturing to China: Decision-Making and Performance
Favreau, Michael Kenyon 1980- - 2007
management is expected to make in the next 12 months (Wery, 2004). “Outsourcing in China can help many companies save money … when it is not necessarily the best decision. The question then arises and becomes the purpose of this study: How does a … company decide if offshore outsourcing is the right decision and, if so, how do they do it properly?The purpose of this …
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A decision-support tool for recommending promising categories for targeted promotions
Breugelmans, Els; Boztug, Yasemin; Reutterer, Thomas K - 2009
their degree of intelligence. During the conference, we will present the underlying mechanism of our decision-support tool …
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The effect of ownership structure on leverage decision: new evidence from Chinese listed firms
Liu, Qigui; Tian, Gary; Wang, Xiaoming - 2011
This paper examines the effect of state control and ownership structure on the leverage decision of firms listed in the …
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