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Developing the dimensions of activities important to successful revenue management performance: an application of the lodging industry
Beck, Jeffrey; Knutson, Bonnie; Kim, SeungHyun; Cha, JaeMin - In: International Journal of Revenue Management 4 (2010) 3/4, pp. 268-283
The increased use of revenue management (RM) has generated the need for trained, skilled individuals who can execute the RM system. The primary objective of this study was to identify and validate the underlying dimensions of activities important to successful RM performance. The data (N = 197)...
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Studying Utilization of Model Leadership Style by Managers of Public Organizations in Isfahan Province
Shirvani, Alireza; Dehaghi, Morteza Raie; Nosouhi, Abbas - In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business … 4 (2014) 1, pp. 344-351
In the present survey the researcher intended to study utilization of model leadership style by managers of public … to establish suitable strategies using model leadership style and increase their own competitive advantage in public … determine the sample size Cochran formula was used that was equal to three-hundred seventy four persons. Model leadership style …
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Us Global Leadership Dilemma As A Challenge For The Us-Russia Relations
Suslov, Dmitry - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
The paper discusses the issue of leadership as a central problems of the US Grand Strategy as America is adjusting to a … governability. It also tackles the US commitment to global leadership as one of central problems of the US-Russia relations …, consequently, equality in relations with the USA. The paper also addresses key components of Obama Administration Grand Strategy …
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Women workers, unions and industrial sectors in North America.
SC, Eaton - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1992
Covers the period from 1960 to 1990. Briefly reviews trends in the agriculture, construction, health care, public, education and clerical sectors.
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Naim Frashëri - Founder and professor of Albanian literature for children
Alimerko, Rudina - In: Academicus International Scientific Journal (2012) 5, pp. 143-152
The tradition that Naim created is alive and inspirational even among the lives of the present society. More than a writer, Naim is the greatest poet of our National Renaissance, is a patriot, think-tank and famous activist of education and Albanian culture. His most special merit in this...
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A rose by any other name: A social-cognitive perspective on poets and poetry
Bar-Hillel, Maya; Maharshak, Alon; Moshinsky, Avital; … - In: Judgment and Decision Making 7 (2012) 2, pp. 149-164
Evidence, anecdotal and scientific, suggests that people treat (or are affected by) products of prestigious sources differently than those of less prestigious, or of anonymous, sources. The ``products'' which are the focus of the present study are poems, and the ``sources'' are the poets. We...
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Accounting: an un-Australian activity?
Evans, Steve; Jacobs, Kerry - In: Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management 7 (2010) August, pp. 378-394
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand if accounting is an un-Australian activity, contrasting the notion of the bush and bushman present in popular Australian poetry and cultural myth with the notion expressed by Maltby of the link between the soul of the middle class and the...
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Kakkanadan: the Oracle of Strength in Malayalam
George, Alex - eSocialSciences - 2011
Born on 23rd April, 1935, Kakkanadan, a Malayalam language short story writer and novelist from Kerala state, South India passed away on 19th October 2011. He is often credited with laying the foundation of modernism in Malayalam literature. He is a recipient of Kendra Sahithya Academy Award.
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The Other
Khudonazar, Anaita - Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian … - 2004
The poetry and prose of the literary elite in Tajikistan took part in the strengthening of national myths as well as in the building of a national consciousness in Tajikistan before and after Perestroika. In Tajik literature of the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, many defined the image of the...
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THE BIRTH OF CHINA SEEN THROUGH POETRY
Chan, Hong-Mo - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
A Recital of the Chinese Poems - Hear what they sound likeThe book introduces Chinese culture to readers of English, using poetry from the various periods rendered into English verse to bring back to life past Chinese society as it developed from about 1000 B.C to the form we see today.With...
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