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The relationship between corporate communication efforts, client communication satisfaction and –relationship satisfaction, and client economic contribution within a financial serv...
Le Roux, Karle - 2011
After facing the economic recession, the South–African and global business sectors startedrevaluating their human capital and the positions they represent within an organisation. Eachindividual now had to prove that they contributed towards the organisation’s bottom line, as eachand every...
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Comparing choice models of river health improvement for the Goulburn River
Kragt, Marit Ellen; Bennett, Jeffrey W.; Lloyd, Chris; … - 2007
The extent of the benefits of improved river health remain uncertain. Quantifying these benefits is useful in prioritising policy investments. This study uses the Choice Modelling technique to estimate the value that households attach to attributes of improved river health. Data from a choice...
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Essays on reputation
Sarin, Rajiv (contributor) - 2006
This dissertation examines reputation, the belief of the decision maker abouttypes of advisors, in incomplete information games with multiple advisors. The decisionmaker believes that an advisor can be one of two types – an advisor who isbiased towards suggesting any particular advice...
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Cheap talk, efficiency and egalitarian cost sharing in joint projects
Agastya, M.; Menezes, F.; Sengupta, K. - 2007
Rarely, if ever. do parties contemplating a joint project commit resources without engaging in nonbindin- discussions about who does what. To examine the role of such discussions, we model the investment decision as a voluntary contribution game where each player is privately informed of her...
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Voronoi languages. Equilibria in cheap-talk games with high-dimensional types and few signals
Jäger, Gerhard; Koch-Metzger, Lars; Riedel, Frank - 2008
We study a communication game of common interest in which the sender observes one of infinite types and sends one of finite messages which is interpreted by the receiver. In equilibrium there is no full separation but types are clustered into convex categories. We give a full characterization of...
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-way Access Pricing:Two-Part Tariffs
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Hurkens, Sjaak - Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Institute for Economic Analysis - 2007
We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices forinterconnected networks. Instead of considering … i pays to network j as a linear functionof the marginal costs and the retail prices set by both networks. In thecase of …
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing:Termination-Based Price Discrimination with Elastic Subscription Demand
Hurkens, Sjaak; Jeon, Doh-Shin - Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Universitat Pompeu Fabra - 2008
We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers'subscription demand is elastic and networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435152
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Learning, language and leadership : conduits to dynamic public service networks
Keast, Robyn L.; Mandell, Myrna - 2009
Networks are having a profound impact on the way society is organised at the local, national and international level …. Networks are not ‘business as usual’. The defining feature of networks and a key indicator for their success is the strength … and quality of the interactions between members. This relational power of networks provides the mechanism to bring …
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The internationalization process of entrepreneurial SMEs in high technology niche market segments
Cruz-Carreon, Gilbert - 2007
This study seeks to make a theoretical contribution to the rapidly growing field ofInternational Entrepreneurship by investigating the process of internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Bell, McNaughton, Young & Crick, (2003) emphasized the need for researchers to...
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The entrepreneurial playwright : a relational approach to marketing plays in the regions
Ainsworth, Rodney Phillip - 2008
This exegesis examines the proposition that playwriting is an entrepreneurial activity when combined with the role of producer. The thesis demonstrates that, when a playwright combines the two roles and considers the development of a network of relationships in the process, positive steps can be...
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