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The client's complex decision-making environment on international mega projects

Siva, J. P. S.; London, K. - 2010

More than ever before, architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) firms are working on international mega projects. The mega project environment offers a range of opportunities for firms but is but is characterised by a high level of risk and uncertainty. International mega projects bring...

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Client leadership capacity on international projects : exploring the client's complex decision-making environment through a critical cultural political economy lens

Siva, Jessica; London, Kerry - 2010

The global construction environment offers stakeholders a range of opportunities but is characterised by a high level of risks and uncertainty. Internationalisation is a relatively new field of research in the AEC sector and past research has largely focused on explaining the behaviour of the...

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Postpositivism and Accounting Research : A (Personal) Primer on Critical Realism

Bisman, Jayne - 2010

of critical realism. A brief review of ontology, epistemology and methodology and the research philosophies and methods …

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The growth of ?connected? firms: a re-appraisal of Penrosian theory and its application to artisanal firms operating in contemporary business networks

Blundel, RK - 2002

The thesis is concerned with the growth of ?connected? firms, characterised as small firms that are engaged in stable spatial and vertical network relationships, involving a variety of actors, including larger firms. It locates these firms within the landscape of the ?New Competition?, (Best...

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Powerful players: How constituents captured the setting of IFRS 6, an accounting standard for the extractive industries

Cortese, C. L.; Irvine, H. J.; Kaidonis, M. - 2009

This paper illustrates the influence of powerful players in the setting of IFRS 6, a new International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) for the extractive industries. A critical investigative inquiry of the international accounting standard setting process, using Critical Discourse Analysis...

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Digging deeper: uncovering constituent discourse in the international accounting standard setting process for the extractive industries

Cortese, C. L.; Irvine, H. J.; Kaidonis, M. - 2006

setting an International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) for the extractive industries. Design/methodology …

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Powerful players : how constituents captured the setting of IFRS 6, a standard for the extractive industries

Cortese, Corinne; Irvine, Helen J.; Kaidonis, Mary - 2009

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Economics and climate applications: exploring the frontier.

Rubas, Debra J.; Hill, Harvey S.J.; Mjelde, James W. - 2006

information, nor are differences between the methods clearly definable. Examples of previous studies using each methodology are …

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Estimating the quadratic mean diameter of fine woody debris for forest type groups of the United States.

Woodall, Christopher W.; Monleon, Vicente J. - 2009

The Forest Inventory and Analysis program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture conducts a national inventory of fine woody debris (FWD); however, the sampling protocols involve tallying only the number of FWD pieces by size class that intersect a sampling transect with no...

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An alternative method to produce prices received estimates.

Donaldson, W.W.; Klugh, B.F. Jr. - 1988

The United States Department of Agriculture has issued statistics on prices received by farmers since 1866. Beginning in 1924, prices received were collected as of the middle of the month instead of the first of the month. In this research analysis both univariate and transfer function...

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