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The location dynamics of knowledge-based service establishments : a Stellenbosch case study
Adendorff, Maria Anita - 2009
Issues relating to globalization and the rise of the New Economy have received much attention from academics. Renewed emphasis has been placed on the importance of locality and cities are seen as gateways to ensuring a competitive role in the global economy. In South Africa, local economic...
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Entrepreneurship, Institutional Structures and Business Performance of the Overseas Chinese
Wang, Jun - 1999
This paper is a part of the report Business Development of the Overseas Chinese – The Case of Four East Asian Countries sponsored by the National Science Foundation of China. In past years, research on overseas Chinese business has risen all over the world. The overseas Chinese who amount to...
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Vytautas Kavolis – metodologinio anarchizmo atstovas?
Noreika, Alvydastestas - 2006
The paper deals with the civilization study methodology of V. Kavolis, a prominent Lithuanian social theoretician. A … is not a proponent of methodological anarchism. V. Kavolis, civilization study methodology, despite its interdisciplinary … and multimethodological nature, is quite consistent. First of all, its consistency relies on the Method of Civilization …
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Interior architecture in Australia and Canada, Part Two: A comparative study of the development of University Education for Interior Designers/Architects
Department of Architecture and Interior Architecture
The first paper established the professions' history as a base, comparing parallels and differences for the purpose of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434988
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Korean expansion and decline from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century: a view suggested by Adam Smith
Ho, Jun Seong; Lewis, James B.; Han-Rog, Kang - 2008
The first price runs for Korean rice help us develop a Smithian physiocratic model to explain the low, stable prices of the eighteenth century and the rising, volatile prices of the nineteenth. Ownership rights provided incentives, and productivity after 1600 exceeded subsistence to achieve...
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Industry and trade policy: A case study of stagnation in Nigeria
Agard, Beverlye C.; Agard, Beverlye C. - 1990
The adoption of import oriented policies introduced distortions into the economy which caused Nigeria to ignore resource-based industry in agriculture, petroleum and metal production. The resulted in the transfer of technology into industries with a continual reliance on imported inputs. This...
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The Financial and Labor Impact of Cybernation on the American Republic Insurance Company
Kramer, Edward Charles - 1974
99 leaves.
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Institutional ideology and industry-level action: A macro analysis of corporate legitimation in the United States petroleum industry
Prasad, Anshuman - 1994
This dissertation is a multi-method, institutional theoretic study that sought to understand how organizational communication in the United States petroleum industry functioned as a device for corporate legitimation over the years 1975-1990. The study investigated the symbolic dimension of...
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Ökonomie des subventionierten Öffentlichen Theaters in Deutschland. Bestandsaufnahme und Entwicklungstendenzen.
Lange, Klaus - 2007
The historical development of the system is shown from the beginning unto 2001. Several picked important problems are discussed ( i.e. small stages - character and importance of the directors and their influence on the demand ) and tested ba statistical methods. The development of the subsidies...
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The Impact of Weather Forecasts on Day-Ahead Power Prices
Levin, Noah - 2011
1. Introduction Power industry deregulation and electricity market restructuring, which began in Chile in the 1980s and then spread to Norway, New Zealand and the UK, were introduced in the United States with the passage of the Energy Policy Act (EPA) of 1992 (Jameson, 1997). The EPA and...
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