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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442826
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Globalized Forest-Products: Commodification of Matsutake Mushroom in Tibetan Villages Yunnan Province, Southwest China
Jun, He - 2006
reform in China, rural economic structures continue functioning with some influences of local cultural, historical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468317
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Embodiment, productivity, and the age distribution of capital
Whelan, Karl - 2007
An important theme in modern research on productivity has been that technological progress may be embodied in capital in the sense that traditional measures of TFP growth reflect unmeasured improvements in the quality of capital inputs as well as pure disembodied technological progress. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475714
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441184
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477796
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480133
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716430
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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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