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Forecasting for the Small Retail Business: Operational Recommendations

Wilson, J. Holton; Miller, Robert H. - In: American Journal of Business 13 (1998) 2, pp. 27-34

Often small business owners/managers feel they have inadequate time for formal forecasting and/or that they lack the … expertise to do so. Since forecasting is an important decision-aiding tool, managers in small retail establishments can benefit … by implementing a simple forecasting process. Doing so will enable them to better anticipate the firms future level of …

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Public Policy Evaluation: Introduction to Quantitative Methodologies

Venetoklis, Takis - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2002

This paper is a survey which describes and explains in non-technical terms the logic behind various methodologies used in conducting retrospective quantitative evaluations of public policy programs. The programs usually have as their main targets firms or individuals who benefit from direct...

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Evaluation and Monitoring of Business Aid in Finland. Applicant Enterprises Projects and Distributors of Aid in Industrially Declining Regions. A Quantitative Approach

Venetoklis, Takis - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 1998

The study examines comprehensively the three entities involved when state aid is distributed to enterprises in Finland, namely the applicant enterprises, the projects financed and the distributors of funds. It demonstrates how quantitative methods can be used to monitor and evaluate state aid to...

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The First Rule, from <i>Seven Rules for Social Research</i>

Firebaugh, Glenn - Princeton University Press

<i>Seven Rules for Social Research</i> teaches social scientists how to get the most out of their technical skills and tools, providing a resource that fully describes the strategies and concepts no researcher or student of human behavior can do without. Glenn Firebaugh provides indispensable practical...

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Corruption: measuring the unmeasurable

Zaman, Asad; Faiz-Ur-Rahim - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 25 (2009) May, pp. 117-126

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that corruption is inherently unmeasurable. Measures of corruption produced by different sources are highly unsatisfactory. Useful measures may be possible for specific purposes in limited contexts. Reasons why highly unsatisfactory measures are...

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Whatever Explains Whatever: The Duhem-Quine Thesis And Conventional Quantitative Methods In Political Science

Lokshin, Ilya - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2015

The paper (for the first time, to the best knowledge of the author) applies the Duhem-Quine thesis to conventional quantitative methods in political science. As a result, the discussion of methodological problems associated with these methods is implanted into the epistemological issues...

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Seven deadly sins of contemporary quantitative political analysis

Schrodt, Philip A - In: Journal of Peace Research 51 (2014) 2, pp. 287-300

A combination of technological change, methodological drift and a certain degree of intellectual sloth, particularly with respect to philosophy of science, has allowed contemporary quantitative political analysis to accumulate a series of dysfunctional habits that have rendered much of...

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Understanding Variation in Treatment Effects in Education Impact Evaluations: An Overview of Quantitative Methods

Schochet, Peter Z.; Puma, Mike; Deke, John - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

Variation in treatment effects has important implications for education practiceâ€”and for facilitating the most efficient use of limited resourcesâ€”by informing decisions about how best to target interventions and how to improve the design or implementation of interventions....

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Mapping 'Information Economy' Businesses with Big Data: Findings for the UK

Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna; Bouet, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with conventional datasets and industry codes. This paper uses innovative 'big data' resources to...

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Mapping Information Economy Businesses with Big Data: Findings for the UK

Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

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