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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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To Tip or not to Tip? An Exploratory Study of the Motivations Driving Consumer Tipping Behavior
Whaley, Jeremy E; O'Neill, Martin A - 2011
The paper attempts to shed light on the key drivers of consumer tipping behavior and reports the findings from an exploratory study aimed at addressing consumer motivations and their influence on consumers’ willingness to tip. When approaching the research issue, the phenomenon presents an...
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Essays on Intitutional Governance
Hu, Bingjie - 2011
This thesis consists of three chapters on the choice of institutional governance. The first chapter provides empirical evidence on the effect of local norms on the contractual choice, using a comprehensive dataset on US agricultural leasing contracts. We focus on the choice between cash-rent and...
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Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demand
Department of Petroleum Engineering
,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 … students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during 2006/7 saw a sudden and substantial growthin industry employment … students reduced to less than 10% of those taking the course. This loss in both student numbers and staff at the same time …
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Retention: rhetoric or realistic agendas for the future of higher education
Rowley, Jennifer - 2003
Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in International Journal of Educational Management, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
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Have they learnt to interrupt?: Comparing how women management students and senior women managers in Australia perceive workplace communication dilemmas
Barrett, Mary - 2009
-year female management students evaluated strategies for the same workplace dilemmas as senior women managers (Barrett 2004 …). Findings - For short and medium term dilemmas students, like senior women managers, regarded masculine communication strategies … evaluating the strategies' probability. But when seeking promotion, students avoided some strategies they considered effective …
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VILNIAUS KOLEGIJA/UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES FACEBOOK PROFILE ATTRACTIVENEES INVESTIGATION
Išoraitė, Margarita - 2019
The well-formed Facebook profile should be well-visible and understandable, not hidden under unnecessary information. Moreover, the most successful sites have an exquisite design - the design is eye-catching and distracting, the site is pleasure to browse, easy to use, and does not contain...
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Assessing Quality Improvement Infrastructure in the Formation of Accountable Care Organizations: A Regional Policy Analysis for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Carr-Whealy, Nathan - 2011
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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