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Social Networks in New Product Forecasts and Marketing
Pescher, Christian - 2011
Consumers interact with each other and within their social networks. Influentials have an overproportional influence on other consumers? preferences and choices, thus having relevant implications for product development, marketing planning and strategic marketing. An important question that...
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First Solution: a safety-first plan backfires
Ballard, Roger - 2007
facilities to transfer money back to their family in Bangladesh. In June 2007, the company went into liquidation owing nearly 2 … million pounds to the public, the majority of whom were from the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. …
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On importer trust and commitment : a comparative study of two developing countries
Bianchi, Constanza; Saleh, Abu - 2010
Purpose: Relationship trust and commitment are two key dimensions of international exchanges. Both have been … country) contexts. To address these gaps, this study aims to develop a model of antecedents and outcomes of importer trust and … and Bangladesh. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling (SEM).---------- Findings: SEM analysis revealed …
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Data confidentiality and reputation schemes in distributed information systems
Fischmann, Matthias - 2008
trust. The first is known as the database service provider problem: A database owner wants a database service provider (DSP … node that enters a P2P application network for the first time needs to trust the claimed observations of other nodes …
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Reputation in Multi Agent Systems and the Incentives to Provide Feedback
Heitz, Miriam; K?nig, Stefan - 2009
instead of giving rise to defective behavior are necessary to make the system work: trust and reputation mechanisms.This paper … examines different incentive mechanisms helping these trust and reputation mechanisms in eliciting users to report own …
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Incentive Compatibility and Efficiency in the Contractual Insurer-Provider Relationship - Economic Theory and Practical Implications: The Case of North Carolina
Schmid, Andreas - 2007
eignet. Ein Exkurs zum amerikanischen Gesundheitswesen vermittelt dem Leser den n?tigen Hintergrund. Eine kritische …
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A study of the differences in the relationship between HIV/AIDS prevalence and related costs in the mining and financial sectors in South Africa
Smit, Stefan - 2009
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: By understanding the costs of HIV/AIDS, businesses can understand the incentives for preventing and treating the disease better. This report primarily investigates whether there is a difference in the relationship between HIV/AIDS prevalence rates and related costs in different...
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Estimating the HIV prevalence among permanent employees of Old Mutual (SA) : a case study
Linderts, Gavin Sebastian - 2008
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Menslike immuungebrekvirus (MIV) en Verworwe immuniteitsgebrek sindroom (VIGS) is een van die grootste uitdagings waarvoor werkgewers vandag te staan kom, en behoort die stukrag te wees vir ’n deeglike ondersoek om die voorkoms van hierdie toestand in die werkplek so...
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A systems development lifecycle approach to Patient Journey Modeling projects
Curry, Joanne; McGregor, Carolyn; Tracy, Sally; Kuhn, … - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2007
Patient Journey Modeling, a relatively recent innovation in healthcare quality improvement, models the patient's movement through a Health Care Organisation (HCO) by viewing it from a patient centric perspective. A Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) provides a standard project management...
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