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Gregoire Rousseau, Jean-Benoit - 2009

-being, the functional forms relying on income adaptation and social comparisons put forward in the happiness literature fail to … expansion experienced in the US in a non-growing happiness flow exhibit extremely high levels of adaptation that are not … can be explained by changes in the income distribution and the concavity of the happiness function. Since 1975 in the …

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Historicism in narrative reviews of strategic management research

Novicevic, Milorad M.; Harvey, Michael G.; Buckley, M. … - 2008

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of methodological issues that accompany the articles reviewing past research in strategic management. Design/methodology/approach – The topic of the philosophical underpinnings and implications of historicism in...

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The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare

Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005

We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...

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Multiproject baselines for evaluation of electric power projects

Sathaye, Jayant; Murtishaw, Scott; Price, Lynn; … - 2008

Calculating greenhouse gas emissions reductions from climate change mitigation projects requires construction of a baseline that sets emissions levels that would have occurred without the project. This paper describes a standardized multiproject methodology for setting baselines, represented by...

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Effect of market structure on international coal trade

Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009

This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has been either qualitative (a consensus of experts) or, if quantitative, has been based on competitive spatial-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade...

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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa

van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986

The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...

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Time Preference and Its Relationship with Age, Health, and Longevity Expectations

Chao, Li-wei; Szrek, Helena; Pereira, Nuno Sousa; … - 2007

Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated with the individual’s time preference, no prior study has been done to empirically support or refute such predictions. By collecting detailed measures of health, time...

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Quality assurance in higher education : a managerial perspective at a university of technology

Harris, Maleecka - 2008

Increasing customer demand for quality products and services have virtuallyforced organisations to adopt quality in every aspect of their business enterprises.Due to dynamic technological, political and economic changes in the world ofbusiness, the science of management is volatile. Higher...

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An accounting syllabus for marketing students as determined by SME needs and specifications

Nompunga, Simpiwe - 2007

In South Africa, SME development has been identified by government as a priority increating jobs to solve high unemployment.SMEs also often battle to survive in a tough and ever changing business world. There isa high failure rate among many SMEs. Some of the reasons for the high rate of...

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Coporate culture in a democratice South Africa

Visser, Ronelda - 2006

roles language and culture play within the South African organisation. Based on the narratives provided by the respondents …

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