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Intangible assets, like patents and trademarks, are increasingly seen as the key to competitive success and as the drivers of corporate profit. Moreover, they constitute a major source of profit shifting opportunities in multinational enterprises (MNEs) due to a highly intransparent transfer...
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Intangible assets are one major source of profit shifting opportunities due to a highly intransparent transfer pricing process. Our paper argues that multinational enterprises (MNEs) optimize their profit shifting strategy by locating shifting–relevant intangible property at affiliates with a...
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This paper aims at establishing the existence of systematic differences in the nature of competitive strategies available to individual firms across industries. By means of qualitative content analysis, we extracted a matrix of 76 industries times 12 strategies reported as being characteristic...
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Markov Models are of outstanding importance in the performance and reliability evaluation of computer systems and …
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international organizations, not-for-profits, and multilateral and bilateral aid agencies to illustrate how systematic evaluation is … influenced efforts in a wide range of countries and what the implications are for evaluation. It also explores ways in which Big … scholars of environment studies, development studies, international relations, sustainable development and evaluation, as well …
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This paper aims to provide new insights into the analysis of National Innovation Systems (NIS). Whereas the common approach is to analyze specific parts or a defined set of actors and their interactions, this paper attempts to take a more systemic approach by analyzing results of 13 surveys...
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students views? In this paper, we consider evaluate e-learning systems in statistics. We make an evaluation study, we analyze a … students sample of the methods: Factor analysis, Logit model. The common aim of this evaluation is to provide data to justify … questionnaire covers information about e-learning evaluation criterias. Some of these criterias are: Navigability, applicability …
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The low unemployment rates traditionally enjoyed by Sweden have often been attributed to the country's extensive system of active labour market programmes, which have thus frequently been regarded as a model for other countries to emulate. However, unemployment grew enormously in Sweden when the...
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The 'Swedish model' of active labour market programmes is investigated in relation to some crucial institutional features with two aims: examining how successful it has been in the context of the high unemployment atypically experienced by Sweden in the 1990s and trying to derive some general...
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In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has …'experts locaux dans la planification et l'évaluation des programmes de développement a augmenté de façon constante. L …
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