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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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Relative index of inequality: Definition, estimation and inference

Sergeant, JC; Firth, D - 2006

The relative index of inequality (RII) is a commonly used measure of the extent to which the occurrence of an outcome such as chronic illness or early death varies with socioeconomic status or some other background variable. The standard RII estimator applies only to linear variation in...

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Approximate Maximum-Likelihood Estimation Of Circle Parameters Using A Phase-Coded Kernel

Zelniker, Emanuel; Clarkson, Ian Vaughan L. - 2004

The accurate fitting of a circle to noisy measurements of points on its circumference is an important and much-studied problem in statistics. Atherton & Kerbyson (Image and Vision Computing 17, 1999, 795-803) have proposed a complex convolutional circle parameter estimator. One of the estimators...

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Danone Branding Strategy in China

Melewar, T C; Badal, E; Small, J - 2005

This paper analyses the branding strategy of a leading French food producer in the fast growing Chinese market. The company, Danone Group (DG), has long been operating internationally with success. However, like several multinational enterprises, its initial entry into China was a failure....

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Development and Application of an Analytical Framework for the Measurement of Customer Service Quality in the Banking Industry of Cyprus

Rossides, Yiannos - 2011

banking industry, and consequently establish a reliable and valid service quality measurement instrument for Cypriot banks … result of this analysis, a modified version of the perceptions’ side of SERVQUAL was constructed as a measurement scale of … consistency measurement. This analysis helped to prove the validity and reliability of the modified instrument used to measure …

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Optimality, Sub-optimality, Nirvana, and Transaction Costs Foraging on the Commons

Feeny, David - 1995

choice of viewpoint from which to assess outcomes, time horizon, choice of normative system, measurement properties of the …

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Designing Incentives for Inexpert Human Raters

Chen, Daniel L.; Horton, John J.; Shaw, Aaron D. - 2011

The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this paper, we report the results of an experiment - conducted in an online labor market - that measured the effectiveness of...

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