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International research collaboration, research team performance, and scientific and; technological capabilities in colombia -a bottom-up perspective
Ordonez-Matamoros, Gonzalo - 2008
This dissertation examines the ways international research collaboration affects the ability of Colombian research teams to produce bibliographic outputs, and to contribute to local knowledge. Research hypotheses are tested using Zero Inflated Negative Binomial Regression models to account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476094
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International Research Collaboration, Research Team Performance, and Scientific and Technological Capabilities in Colombia: A Bottom-Up Perspective
Ordonez-Matamoros, Gonzalo - 2008
This dissertation examines the ways international research collaboration affects the ability of Colombian research teams to produce bibliographic outputs, and to contribute to local knowledge. Research hypotheses are tested using Zero Inflated Negative Binomial Regression models to account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463378
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Business Strategies Towards the Creation, Absorption and Dissemination of New Technologies
Wiethaus, Lars - 2005
This thesis aims to identify and to close some gaps in the literature dealing with business strategies towards the creation, absorption and dissemination of new technologies. In doing so it comprises four theoretical papers. The following abstracts and Figure 1 briefly link each paper to one ore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449680
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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...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447148
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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. CAFTA’s principal merits are seen to be the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471624
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Tracking the Sun II: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2008
Barbose, Galen L; Wiser, Ryan; Peterman, Carla; … - 2010
States was the world's third largest PV market in terms of annual capacity additions in 2008, behind Spain and Germany; 335 …
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