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Can business counselling help SMEs grow? Evidence from the Swedish business development grant programme
Widerstedt, Barbro; Månsson, Jonas - In: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development 22 (2015) 4, pp. 652-665
. Results are upwardly biased due to sample selection among treated firms. Research limitations/implications – An improved … compares the effect of, respectively, contamination and selection on estimated impact on firm growth and survival. The data …
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Social Media Impact on the Recruitment and Selection Process in the Information Technology Industry
Pramod, Dhanya; Bharathi, S. Vijayakumar - In: International Journal of Human Capital and Information … 7 (2016) 2, pp. 36-52
maximizing the potential role of social media in recruitment and selection. This study revealed certain convincing insights into … screening, recruitment activities and social media benefits perceived in recruitment and selection. The study resulted in the …
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Application of Methodology Evaluation System on Current IS Development Methodologies
Buchalcevova, Alena - In: International Journal of Information Technologies and … 11 (2018) 2, pp. 71-87
development methodologies can be then used by companies for the selection of the appropriate methodology. Furthermore, presenting …
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Investment Location Selection based on Economic Intelligence and Macbeth Decision Aid Model
Bachrane, Mostafa; Khaled, Abdelilah; El Alami, Jamila; … - In: Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR) 9 (2016) 3, pp. 37-48
In this paper, the authors present a case study that aims to apply some sound MCDM techniques in the case of Economic Intelligence (EI) and show how the use of strategic information may help deciders to choose among geographic locations in which they could settle their investments. In this...
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Multivariate risk measures in the non-convex setting
Haier, Andreas; Molchanov, Ilya - In: Statistics & Risk Modeling 36 (2019) 1-4, pp. 25-35
Abstract The family of admissible positions in a transaction costs model is a random closed set, which is convex in case of proportional transaction costs. However, the convexity fails, e.g., in case of fixed transaction costs or when only a finite number of transfers are possible. The paper...
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Subject knowledge improves interactive query expansion assisted by a thesaurus
Sihvonen, Anne; Vakkari, Pertti - In: Journal of Documentation 60 (2004) 6, pp. 673-690
This study explores how experts and novices in pedagogics expanded queries supported by the ERIC thesaurus, and how this was connected to the search effectiveness in an easy and a difficult search task. The expert group consisted of 15 undergraduates in pedagogy and the novice group of 15...
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Organizational Purchasing of Professional Services
Day, Ellen; Barksdale, Hiram C. - In: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 9 (1994) 3, pp. 44-51
Stresses the importance of professional service provider selection and the potentially disastrous financial penalty for … error made by a client organization. Identifies problems with previous studies relating to this selection process and offers … selection and evaluation. Identifies factors which may complicate the process. Concludes that a better understanding of the …
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Potential problems and solutions when hiring and training a worldwide sales team
Honeycutt, Earl D.; Ford, John B. - In: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 11 (1996) 1, pp. 42-54
business failure. Examines selection and training procedures in a global environment, discusses specific problem situations …
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Influences on organizational buying choice processes: future research directions
Kauffman, Ralph G. - In: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 11 (1996) 3/4, pp. 94-107
Identifies sources of influence in organizational buying choices from a review of the literature. Constructs a model of influence by extending the buying behavior model of Webster and Wind (1972). Uses the model to categorize and analyze representative research of influence on organizational...
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Are salespeople born or made? Biology, personality, and the career satisfaction of salespeople
Loveland, James M; Lounsbury, John W; Park, Soo-Hee; … - In: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 30 (2015) 2, pp. 233-240
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between personality traits and both job and career satisfaction among salespeople. The authors also wished to examine the extent to which biologically based personality traits provided insights into job and career...
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