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The significance of cognitive dissonance for the “hard and soft FM” paradigm and quality assessment practices: a whole new can of worms?
Spencer, Robert; Hinks, John - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to report on a study based around a commercial facilities management (FM) service provider's creation of an internal benchmark of how services for an acute hospital perform in terms of service quality. Principally, the paper discusses the emergence and significance...
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459022
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459069
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459219
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Financial Literacy and Women: Overcoming the Barriers
Donohue, Melissa A - 2011
Women are facing increasing financial responsibility, while at the same time, the consumer financial world is evolving at an extraordinary pace. These trends make a imperative that we better understand the evolving nature of gender-based inequities across our current socio-economic systems and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468237
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Exploring the marketing - entrepreneurship interface: bringing an understanding of small business marketing into the curriculum
Day, John; Reynolds, Paul Lewis - 2011
The success of small firms worldwide is determined by entrepreneurship and marketing (Hills, 1995). 95% of firms worldwide are small (less than 250 employees) – and often smaller than that. Marketing and entrepreneurship are not the same but they are interconnected. Consider Apple, the fabled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009474482
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The shaping of student knowledge: learning with dynamic geometry software
Jones, Keith - 2005
suggest that curriculum initiatives that encourage the use of dynamic geometry software are appropriate but that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458495
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Interrogating the crisis in higher education marketing: the CORD model
Maringe, Felix - 2005
curriculum focused marketing model which should help refocus HE marketing, domesticate it appropriately and reduce the internal … of the world. It concludes by offering a curriculum focused marketing model (CORD) which could serve the basis for future … curriculum centred marketing model. Originality/value - The CORD model represents an attempt at addressing the crisis that HE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458697
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I'm gonna live forever: realities of long-term post investment performance for venture-backed enterprises
Reid, J.G.C.; Smith, J.A. - 2006
This paper constructs a model of long-run performance for SMEs that have received venture capital backing. The model explains performance by financial structure. FAME data are used for estimating performance equations over the period 1989 to 2004 for UK businesses in their post-investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459603
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Exploring design and innovation: further developments in the innovation curriculum
Tabor, Emma; Chappell, Alison - 2001
The Exploring Design and Innovation booklet was developed as a curriculum resource to disseminate information about … innovation. Part of the research will also be looking at ways of extending the curriculum developments in the teaching of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461249