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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...
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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...
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Knowledge management: a residential aged care perspective
Preece, Michael - 2011
leadership across the knowledge management process was confirmed, as well as the importance of guiding routines and knowledge …
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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 …
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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...
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Regional unemployment and human capital in transition economies 1
Jurajda, ŠtěpÁn; Terrell, Katherine - 2009
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that within-country regional variation in inherited human capital in four such economies explains the bulk of regional variation in unemployment; we explore potential explanations. Our evidence...
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Housing tenure and labour mobility : a comparison across European countries
Barceló Varona, Cristina - 2006
This paper studies housing tenure and labour mobility using individual data from the ECHP for five European countries. First, the effect of housing tenure on the unemployed workers' labour mobility is studied using a discrete unemployment duration model with two alternative exits to employment,...
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Personalmanagement in der Mongolei
Wagner, Dieter - 2005
Das Personalmanagement in der Mongolei bewegt sich zwischen Emanzipation und Transformation. Wird es weiter so vorangetrieben, kann es Vorbild für andere Entwicklungsländer werden.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448927
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Three Essays on Worker Turnover and Incentive Contracts in Labour Market Search Equilibrium
Zaharieva, Anna - 2010
This dissertation thesis consists of three independent research papers and is devoted to the topic of worker turnover and incentive contracts in a labour market characterized by search frictions and matching. There exists a large body of literature dating back to the seminal studies by Diamond,...
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