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Assessment Criteria for the University Scientific Research Projects

Marius, Toma Cristian - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 2125-2130

Assessment Criteria for the University Scientific Research Projects

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Project managers and risk management: A comparative study between Japanese and Korean firms

Shimizu, Takashi; Park, Youngwon; Choi, SukBong - In: International Journal of Production Economics 147 (2014) PB, pp. 437-447

In the course of managing businesses, executives constantly face challenging circumstances. For instance, the market reality does not necessarily reflect the intent of a company's management. Disruptive business events may occur that are quite contrary to what the senior management expected....

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Psychological adjustment and coping among construction project managers

Haynes, Natasha; Love, Peter - In: Construction Management and Economics 22 (2004) 2, pp. 129-140

Construction project managers work under conditions of uncertainty and high risk, and this can contribute to an excessive level of work-related stress being experienced. To date, there has been limited research that has examined how project managers cope with work-related stress. This paper...

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Towards developing competency-based measures for project managers in mass house building projects in developing countries

Ahadzie, Divine Kwaku; Proverbs, David; Olomolaiye, Paul; … - In: Construction Management and Economics 27 (2009) 1, pp. 89-102

Within the human resource management (HRM) genre, the identification and development of appropriate competency-based measures is widely seen as the only viable means for validating and engendering managerial best practices. A competency-based conceptual model is proposed towards the development...

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Efficient and Effective Project Management

Pene, Dusan; Stok, Zlatka Mesko - In: Management 9 (2014) 1, pp. 61-76

The purpose of the article is to investigate different authorities and responsibilities of a project manager and of a project leader. Considering the fact that nowadays the project management is becoming the important factor in performing and leading the investments which are modified by modern...

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Project manager skills for improving project performance

Sunindijo, Riza Yosia - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 16 (2015) 1, pp. 67-83

Project managers have multifaceted responsibilities that significantly affect project success. Previous research has identified four skills of effective project managers, namely, conceptual, human, political, and technical skills, along with their 16 skill components. The aim of this paper is to...

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Property and markets in Elmer Kelton novels

Simmons, Randy - In: Public Choice 158 (2014) 1, pp. 11-19

Literature is not for clear answers. Literature is for complicated questions. There is vital empirical data in literary texts—not data about economic fact, though there is some of that as well, but data about how people felt and thought and wrote about economic and market issues. If we care...

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Using fi ction in teaching political science

Kasamara, V; Sorokina, A - In: Educational Studies (2009) 3, pp. 161-168

The authors suggest a non conventional technique of teaching political science. The idea is to use fi ction in the study of basic topics of political science. The main purpose of this technique is to develop the creative thinking in students, to teach them to form their own defi nitions of...

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Something for Nothing: A Novel

Klein, Michael W. - The MIT Press

David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he...

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The fiction of development: knowledge, authority and representation

Lewis, David; Rodgers, Dennis; Woolcock, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

recent literary fiction that touch on development issues with academic and policy-related representations of the development … certain works of fiction are better than academic or policy research in representing central issues relating to development … fact and fiction is a very fine one. The article finally provides a list of relevant works of fiction that we hope …

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