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When Advance Purchase need to be Made for Future Consumption – An Empirical Investigation of Consumer Choice under Bucket Pricing

Sun, Bao-Hong; Sun, Yacheng; Li, Shibo - 2006

Bucket pricing entails a prepaid price and a maximum consumption limit, which requires consumers to make advance purchase decisions before their consumption needs are fully revealed. We propose a dynamic model that involves how consumers form expectations of future consumption needs, learn to...

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Emotional labor in intercultural service encounters: An experience sampling study

McCance, Andrea S. - 2010

The body of literature surrounding emotional labor, defined as service employees’ effort to manage their emotions to meet organizational goals (Hochschild, 1983; Morris & Feldman, 1996), exhibits a severe lack of studies examining intercultural service encounters (i.e., service episodes in which a...

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Knowledge management: a residential aged care perspective

Preece, Michael - 2011

This research explores perceptions of knowledge management processes held by managers and employees in a service industry. To date, empirical research on knowledge management in the service industry is sparse. This research seeks to examine absorptive capacity its four absorptive capacity...

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Identifying entrepreneurship readiness for the application of the Lean Startup practices in the service industry – Case study Romania

Racolța-Paina, Nicoleta Dorina; Andrieș, Andreea Maria - 2017

The Lean Startup approach revealed around 2011 came as a novelty in the field of entrepreneurial management. The abbreviated version of the principles that mold the entire concept, states that instead of spending years developing a product towards perfection, a product that in the end might not...

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Leaving the L-Space; Kundenintegration als Erklärungsansatz multinationaler Unternehmen im Dienstleistungssektor - Eine Weiterentwicklung des OLI-Modells

Radmacher-Nottelmann, Nils A. - 2010

Dienstleistungssektor unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kundenintegration erklärt werden kann.Als Ausgangspunkt wird argumentiert, dass … absatzorientierten Auslandsinvestitionen und mithin der weitaus überwiegende Teil der Entstehung von MNU im Dienstleistungssektor … erklären.Die zentrale Bedeutung der Kundenintegration bei der Entstehung von MNU im Dienstleistungssektor wird zudem empirisch …

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Trade Integration and the Rise of the Service Sector in Latin America : the Case of Honduras

Hauck, Benjamin Christoph - 2006

This thesis analyzes the service dimension of the Central American Free TradeAgreement (CAFTA) and examines the challenges and opportunities which it entailson El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras with a particular focus on the financialsector. CAFTAs principal merits are seen to be the...

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Macroeconomic Determinants of the Happiness of the Poor: A Case Study of Pakistan

Shahbaz, Muhamm; Aamir, Naveed - 2008

that this is qualitative and subjective phenomena are not easily captured by measurement. In the present endeavour, the …

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Internationalit?t der Unternehmung - Aktueller Forschungsstand, Analyse und Konzeptualisierung

Fischer, Laura Denise - 2006

The research field of (measurement) concepts depicting the degree of multinationality of a firm is vast and complex … multinationality is, however, a precondition for the validity of measurement concepts. Hence, the development of a well … framework as well as recommendations for the construction of measurement concepts of firm multinationality are identified and …

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Forecasting Field Defect Rates Using a Combined Time-based and Metrics-based Approach: a Case Study of OpenBSD

Luo Li, Paul; Herbsleb, James; Shaw, Mary - 2005

Open source software systems are critical infrastructure for many applications; however, little has been precisely measured about their quality. Forecasting the field defect-occurrence rate over the entire lifespan of a release before deployment for open source software systems may enable...

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A retrospective view of the South African excellence model

Williams, June C. - 2008

, however, performance measurement systems ofworld-class organisations are tailored to drive manufacturing and service …

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