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Social media networks (SMN) such as Facebook and Twitter are infamous for facilitating the spread of potentially false rumors. Although it has been argued that SMN enable their users to identify and challenge false rumors through collective efforts to make sense of unverified information—a...
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new strategies for sustainable growth. Banking institutions that can address these emerging challenges and opportunities …
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This article proposes complementing actor-network theory (ANT) with Niklas Luhmann’s communication theory, in order to overcome one of ANT’s major shortcomings, namely, the lack of a conceptual repertoire to describe virtual processes such as sense-making. A highly problematic consequence of...
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The Extended Enterprise, an advanced form of supply-chain integration, focusses on maximizing overall performance while also optimizing the performance of the stand-alone organizations involved. This necessitates not only inter-organizational collaboration but also inter-organizational...
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Context: Sense-making, understood as meaning making or giving meaning to experience, is an integral part of everyday life, work and learning, and is a process critical in enabling people to recognise how and when to respond to situations appropriately so that they can resolve problems...
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Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are increasingly called to substantiate their impact on society in terms of inclusivity and social sustainability, as prioritized in the pursuit of the "Third Mission" (TM). Today, HEIs are confronted with the demand to ensure refugees' inclusivity. However,...
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Der Einzelhandel in der Bandbreite seiner heutigen Erscheinungsformen hat auf der Angebotsseite sowie auf der Nachfrageseite in den zurückliegenden Jahrzehnten einen gravierenden Wandel vollzogen. Dabei ist eine generalisierende Beurteilung sehr schwierig, liegen doch zwischen SB-Warenhäusern,...
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inventory management methodologies it is not free from barriers. Barriers derail the implementation of JIT production system …. One of the most significant tasks of top management is to identify and understand the relationship between the barriers to … JIT production for alleviating its bad effects. The aims of this paper are to study the barriers hampering the …
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Entrepreneurs all over the world seek ways of introducing their products to international markets; unfortunately, the international marketing environment poses a lot of opportunities and threats to foreign entrants. The cultural, political, and technological environments act as determinant...
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. While there is no dearth of research on project risk management, the manifestation of barriers to project risk management is … a less dwelt topic. The success of project management is oftentimes based on the understanding of barriers to effective … risk management, application of appropriate risk management methodology, proactive leadership to avoid barriers, workers …
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