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Market Integration with Transaction Costs in Developing Country Staple Food Markets: the Case of the Malawi Maize market
Zant, Wouter - 2010
We investigate measurement of market integration of staple food markets in developing countries. The analysis takes the Parity Bound Model as starting point and modifies this model by parameterizing and estimating transaction costs. The specification of transaction costs takes account of...
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Differentiation of services to achieve competitive advantage - Airlines meeting the needs of the physically challenged persons
Rahman, Md. Shafiqur - 2011
products and services by fulfilling the needs of physically challenged persons. The literature review gave clear focus to the … needs of physically challenged persons?” The interpretivist orientation of qualitative research methods with case studies … achieve competitive advantage by fulfilling the needs of physically challenged individuals and also to develop a model rather …
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An evaluation of mature consumer needs in the banking sector
Pieterse, Hanlie - 2008
information toenhance understanding of the perceptions with regard to the functional, social andemotional needs of the mature … market sector.Abraham Maslow is known for postulating the 'Hierarchy of Needs Theory', statingthat human beings are motivated … by their unsatisfied needs. It is necessary tounderstand and investigate the relative importance of the functional …
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Relationships between organization characteristics and needs for management training in developing countries
Hau, Le Nguyen - University of Western Sydney - 1998
indicators on the needs for training of task-related and people-related skills for both upper and lower managers. The results … environment, etc., are among variables explaining the training needs of various kinds in a company. The results would also provide … regression models as tools in assessing training needs for management skills at various companies. However, it is the perceived …
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PROMOTING THE IMAGE OF SCHOOL IN THE RURAL SPACE
Oprea, Miruna - 2017
The concept of promoting belongs to the marketing field. Marketing is a particularly old activity, who took different forms over time. Today, however, in the educational field in particular, the emphasis is on quality, while the educational offer is very diversified and adapted to the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716439
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Results of non-financial corporations in 2020 Q1
Menéndez Pujadas, Álvaro; Mulino Ríos, Maristela A.
downward trend of this ratio in recent years. The article includes a box that analyses firms’ liquidity needs in 2020 Q1 (as a …
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Results of non-financial corporations to 2020 Q2
Menéndez Pujadas, Álvaro; Mulino Ríos, Maristela A.
a box that analyses firms’ liquidity needs in 2020 H1 as a result of the fall in activity, investment in real assets and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012525173
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Examining the role of luxury brands in ytopia
Marchegiani, Chris; Latter, Chelsey - 2009
A vast body of knowledge exists with regards to the attitudes involved in the consumption of luxury brands. The purchase of products for their symbolic and social value rather than for their inherent utility in now widely recognised as a significant determinant of consumer behaviour (Mason...
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To buy or not to buy a "counterfeit" Ralph Lauren polo shirt: the role of lawfulness and legality toward purchasing counterfeits
School of Marketing
This study examines the influence of personality factors and attitudes toward consumers' willingness to knowingly purchase counterfeit luxury brands. Convenience sampling method was employed and a self administered questionnaire was distributed to students in a large Australian university. A...
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A Mathematical Model for New Product Diffusion: The Influence of Innovators and Imitators
Steffens, Paul R.; Murthy, D. N. Prabhakar - 1992
Abstract - A simple mathematical model describing the diffusion of a new, infrequently purchased product is proposed. Many previous papers have reported that the differing behaviour of "innovators" and "imitators" is fundamental to the diffusion process. However, previous models have failed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437592