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Originally conceptualized by Hambrick and Mason (1984), the upper echelons perspective (UEP) has become a dominant theme in the study of strategic decision making across a great number of disciplines. Over the past two decades, the work of these authors has been cited in over 500 refereed...
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to monitor the corporate life cycle. The research results in the creation of a new business fitness landscape model …, introduces two new business risk parameters, creates a new business diversity fitness index, completes a macro analysis of the … business fitness landscape. In a very dynamic and changeable business fitness landscape, the largest corporations which have …
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complete medical records of each patient, lack of promotion led to his nurse, lack of discipline and lack of empathy nurses to … related to organizational culture, incentives, discipline, and performance.This research method is quantitative and … incentives. The second hypothesis simultaneously there highly significant influence between discipline and competence of the …
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Experiential learning efforts in the 1950s mimicked the logistic operational gaming of World War II; the results were encouraging. Subsequently, funded research efforts over three decades focused on gaming phenomena. Computers permitted more elaborate games, creating the illusion that they might...
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This project is a study which examines how attendance levels in Major League Baseball stadiums have been impacted by … the current recession in the United States which began in October 2007. Research on attendance during past recessions has … shown a strong relationship that during downtrends in the economy, baseball attendance levels generally do not suffer. Using …
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This paper reviews previous cost studies of overweight and obesity in the UK. It proposes a method for estimating the … economic and health costs of overweight and obesity in the UK which could also be used in other countries. Costs of obesity … was used to calculate the mortality and morbidity cost of overweight and obesity. Population attributable fractions for …
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The high and rapidly rising adult obesity rates in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand are ….S. In contrast, death rates from circulator diseases have a strong negative trend, but rising obesity rates almost certainly … have slowed this trend. This paper focuses on obesity-related mortality from diabetes and circulatory diseases and …
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The extant literature on fat taxes and thin subsidies tends to focus on the overall effectiveness of such fiscal instruments in altering diets and improving health. However, little is known about the welfare impacts of fiscal food policies on society. This paper fills a gap in the literature...
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international standard for obesity, whereas 32.0 percent of Americans do. A total of 66.5 percent of Americans have a BMI over 25 … of obesity in the world and the United States one of the highest, giving particular attention to underlying economic …
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be obesity. Higher prices for fresh fruits and vegetables and non-alcoholic drinks increase likelihood of obesity for … females but not for males; and a higher price for processed fruits and vegetables reduce likelihood of obesity for females but …
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