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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

This research explores perceptions of knowledge management processes held by managers and employees in a service industry. To date, empirical research on knowledge management in the service industry is sparse. This research seeks to examine absorptive capacity its four absorptive capacity...

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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. CAFTAs principal merits are seen to be the...

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Diffusion of corporate governance practices : the Dutch response to pressures for shareholder value

Bezemer, Pieter-Jan; Zajac, Edward; Van den Bosch, Frans; … - 2011

influence a firm’s adoption and (un)successful implementation of an SVO among the largest 100 corporations in the Netherlands …

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The Consequences for Consumer Welfare of the 2001-2003 Electricity Distribution Price Review in The Netherlands

Nillesen, Paul; Pollitt, Michael G - 2004

The Dutch regulatory process for setting the first X-Factors in the electricity distribution sector has gone badly wrong. During two-and-a-half years four different X-Factors were published by the regulator. These X-Factors fluctuated wildly. We demonstrate that Dutch electricity consumers will...

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Die Zyklik der Profite in der Ernährungswirtschaft: Ein internationaler Vergleich

Korner, Julia; Weiss, Christoph R. - 2001

-cost-margins over the business cycle for food industries in Germany, the USA as well as the Netherlands. Controlling for market … econometric model does not adequately explain industry differences in profitability in the Netherlands. …

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Contextualizing Marine Resource Use: A Case from the Netherlands

Van Ginkel, Rob - 1998

From Introduction:"...Based on ethnohistorical research in two distinct areas in the Netherlands (viz. the province of …

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