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Longitudinal evaluation of efficiency in a petrochemical company

Gilsa, Charles Von; Lacerda, Daniel Pacheco; Camargo, … - In: Benchmarking: An International Journal 24 (2017) 7, pp. 1786-1813

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to longitudinally assess the technical efficiency and productivity, considering investment projects and technological change, in a second-generation petrochemical company. Design/methodology/approach The study uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) together...

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Implementation and Evaluation of Flipped Classroom as IoT Element into Learning Process of Computer Network Education

Zhamanov, Azamat; Seong-MooYoo; Sakhiyeva, Zhulduz; … - In: International Journal of Information and Communication … 14 (2018) 2, pp. 30-47

Students nowadays are hard to be motivated to study lessons with traditional teaching methods. Computers, smartphones, tablets and other smart devices disturb students' attentions. Nevertheless, those smart devices can be used as auxiliary tools of modern teaching methods. In this article, the...

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Geometric Representations Built with GeoGebra for Improving the Visualization and Reasoning Cognitive Process

Orozco, Claudia; Morales-Morgado, Erla M. - In: Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR) 10 (2017) 1, pp. 39-58

It is well known that Mathematical Software can be an appropriate tool to improve the teaching-learning mathematic process. This Software allows the teacher and student to build certain geometric facts and consequently, to visualize them. This makes possible to concretize certain abstract...

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Entrepreneurial learning: gender differences

Ekanem, Ignatius - In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 21 (2015) 4, pp. 557-577

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the differences in the entrepreneurial experiences between male and female entrepreneurs. The study investigates what entrepreneurs learn, how they learn, who they learn from and what prompted such learning. Design/methodology/approach – The...

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An integration of theoretical knowledge, day by day experience and multicriteria methods to support the entrepreneurial learning process

Guelfi, Silvano; Norese, Maria Franca; Saluto, Paolo - In: Measuring Business Excellence 20 (2016) 1, pp. 12-20

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide to the entrepreneurs, and propose to the scientific community, a newly structured knowledge system that includes the quality of customers and suppliers, to facilitate learning processes about the current state of the enterprise and new strategic...

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Effects of business school student’s study time on the learning process

Tetteh, Godson Ayertei - In: Journal of International Education in Business 9 (2016) 2, pp. 90-110

implications This objective of the study is to use the TQM principles of process approach, the Learning Theory and the Learning …

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Learning curves for quality and productivity

Jeang, Angus - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 32 (2015) 8, pp. 815-829

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to build a curve that can portray quality level, with standard deviation, as a function of the production process related to elements such as operating time and cumulative units produced. Design/methodology/approach – The Cobb-Douglas multiplicative...

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China’s International Poverty Reduction Center as a Platform for South-South Learning

Wu, Zhong; Karp, Philip; Wang, Yan - In: Development Outreach 12 (2010) 2, pp. 32-34

After attending a South-South experience-sharing event in China, a number of African officials wondered: “How come China is able to develop and retain its implementation capacity, whereas our countries suffer from brain-drain?”

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Internal organisational factors influencing corporate social and ethical reporting : Beyond current theorising

Adams, Carol A. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 15 (2002) 2, pp. 223-250

Prior empirical research into factors which are influential in determining the extent and nature of corporate social reporting has primarily been concerned with the impact of corporate characteristics (such as size and industry grouping) or general contextual factors (such as the social,...

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A literary theory perspective on accounting : Towards heteroglossic accounting reports

Macintosh, Norman B.; Baker, C. Richard - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 15 (2002) 2, pp. 184-222

This paper adopts a literary theory perspective to depict accounting reports and information as texts rather than as … economic commodities and so available for analysis from the vantage point of semiotic linguistic theory. In doing so it takes … dominant genres of literary theory – expressive realism, the new criticism, structuralism, and deconstructionism – to …

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