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The Internet of Things, Legal Aspects: What Will Change (Everything)…
BARBRY, Eric - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 87, pp. 83-100
After the birth of the Internet, the rise of Web 2.0, here comes the Internet of Things. Internet has led us to adopt special law, digital economy law…Web 2.0 has urged us to rethink core legal concepts such as liability and ownership and introduce notions such as sharing and availability. The...
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Information and Communication Technologies for Health Systems Strengthening
Otto, Kate; Shekar, Meera; Herbst, Christopher H.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...
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Service-dominant logic and procurement in Africa: lessons learned from a development agenda in Ghana
Dza, Mawuko; Fisher, Ron; Gapp, Rod - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 6 (2013) 2, pp. 141-157
A little over a decade now, there have been sweeping procurement reforms in most developing countries. The orchestrators of these reforms - mostly the World Bank and other international financial institutions, have cited financial mismanagement and the lack of transparency in public financial...
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Competition, contracting and cost-sharing in the NHS internal market
Gray, Keith E.; Ghosh, Deb - In: Global Business and Economics Review 2 (2000) 1, pp. 85-103
The NHS Internal Market provided a testing ground for some hypotheses on relationship building between purchasers and providers of secondary health care. An empirical analysis is presented based upon a major survey of NHS Trusts. LOGIT models were used to tackle the qualitative nature of a...
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Conditions of Success: a platform for international construction development
Hawk, David - In: Construction Management and Economics 24 (2006) 7, pp. 735-742
'Conditions of Success' (COS) was organised to study the internationalisation of the construction industry in 1989. At that time few companies, and even fewer researchers, were interested in international construction endeavours. The purpose of the study was to collect information on activities...
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Identification losses in the FMCG1 sector in the light of the European and global researches
Lewandowska, Justyna - Keleti Károly Gazdasági Kar, Óbudai Egyetem
The main aim of the article is to present a very high level of the shrinkage in the FMCG sector on the European and global markets. It implies directly to reducing level of customer service and a significant reducing in the level of company profits. Results come from the European and global...
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ЗНАЧИМОСТЬ УПАКОВКИ ТОВАРА КАК ЭЛЕМЕНТА РЕКЛАМЫ ПРИ ФОРМИРОВАНИИ ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЬСКИХ ПРЕДПОЧТЕНИЙ
Сергеевна, Серебренникова … - In: Экономикс Economics (2014) 3
В данной статье рассматривается значимость упаковки при продвижении товаров. Указывается необходимость разработки креативной упаковки для формирования...
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The Effect of Use of Power in Buyer-Seller Relationships: An Investigation on the Firm Size Dependency
Turkkantos, Sema - In: International Journal of Business Administration 5 (2014) 3, pp. 86-95
This study aims to introduce the effects of power use on firm performance in manufacturer-retailer relationships … firm performance. The data was collected from the 400 manufacturer firms of the supplier-retailer relationships. The …
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Centralization of Stocks: Retailers vs. Manufacturer
Anupindi, Ravi; Bassok, Yehuda - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 2, pp. 178-191
manufacturer, whose goods the retailers stock, when customers unsatisfied at retailers due to stock-outs are considered lost sales …? In this paper we consider a model with two retailers and one manufacturer. We then compare two systems: one in which the … whether or not centralization of stocks by retailers increases profits for the manufacturer depends on the level of "market …
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THE DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS – AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
POP, IOAN - In: JOURNAL STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABES-BOLYAI NEGOTIA (2007)
The distribution of goods will have a strategic significance in obtaining a competitive advantage by firms in the competition on the global market. In order to respond to these challenges, the management of manufacturing firms must choose the distribution channel which is not only cost efficient...
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