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of the work itself. During his lecture, he talks about: accounting tools, Fiat car designers, Japan and retirement … computers, the needs of business, hospital, and non-profit organizations, the importance of communication, and change in …
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The objective of this thesis is to investigate the potential contribution of transnational corporations (TNC) to the upgrading of systems of innovation in late-industrialising countries. This study looks specifically at TNC-affiliierter in Thailand’s manufacturing sector and compares them with...
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An important lesson of behavioralist research is that individuals' perceptions and preferences are highly manipulable. This article presents empirical evidence of market manipulation, a previously unrecognized source of market failure. It surveys extensive qualitative and quantitative marketing...
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This study considers competing theories concerning the role of mass media in hindering or facilitating the translation of personal experience into political preferences. Using national survey and media content data that allows evaluations of both media coverage and individual patterns of media...
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In thinking about the diffusion of innovation, one tends to overlook the obvious fact that not all innovations are adopted by, or are intended to be adopted by, individuals. In the first place, different sorts of innovations may "require" different units of adoption- for example, "it takes two...
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communication by the agent (i.e., a self-report). In a simple setting with no communication, alternative labor market frictions lead … signals serve as a veracity check on the agent’s self-report. Finally, such communication sometimes makes delaying the …
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but that it may be useful to create the perception of opacity. The optimal communication strategy for the central bank is …
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This thesis aims to accomplish four goals. First, to establish the extent to which a gender wage gap exists in the American workforce and why it matters. Second, it seeks to explore the various factors that scholars have advanced as potential explanations for this gap with the aim of identifying...
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of new communication technologies as a means of sharing information and expanding capacity for innovation. The main … question for this research is: When new communication technologies are introduced into organizations, how do they work together … Dollar General Corporation. Results include an introduction to each company, a report on their implemented new communication …
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