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Technical Potential for Peak Load Management Programs in New Jersey
Kirby, B.J. - 2008
to respond to economic signals. When we buy bananas, we don't simply take a dozen and wait a month to find out what the … price was. We always ask about the price before we decide how many bananas we want. Technology is beginning to allow at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437367
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Assessing the Impact of Recent Trade Policy Changes in the Banana Market under Alternative Market Structures
Anania, Giovanni; Scoppola, Margherita - 2011
policy analysis. It does it with reference to the most recent changes in theEU import regime for bananas, namely the Economic … Partnership Agreements and the December2009 WTO agreement on bananas. The paper’s contribution to the literature on the issues … assesses how the analysis of the implications of the mostrecent changes in the EU import regimes for bananas is affected by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443732
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Economic Partnership Agreements and WTO negotiations. A quantitative assessment of trade preference granting and erosion in the banana market
Anania, Giovanni - 2008
performed suggestthat the impact of the EPA on the production and consumption of bananas in the EU will be limited … cancel out most of these benefits.The actual outcome will depend on the EU bound tariff for bananas which will be subject to … reform of the EU import regime for bananas in 2006?); on whetherbananas will be included among “tropical products”; and, if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445735
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The plight of the Sumatran elephant : a case study in conservation medicine in the field
Bartlett, Susan - 2003
The overpopulation problem in Sumatra, and the subsequent devastation of the environment due to logging, the planting of oil palm and rubber trees, and oil drilling, has caused elephants and humans to compete for available natural resources. Deprived of their indigenous forest, elephants destroy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466250
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The Global Expansion of Transnational Retailers: A Case Study of the Localization Strategy of Costco in Taiwan
Yeh, YunLung - 2010
This research focuses on the global expansion of the transnational retail industry. Globalization is a phenomenon experienced by many industries in the present global economy. The global production network (GPN) framework can be used to explain and interpret the phenomenon of transnational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475017
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The effects of a human resources information technology intervention on background check processing in a financial institution: A process level analysis.
Mallari, Alexander David - 2008
The human resources department of a financial institution implemented a multi-component intervention to replace a paper-based hiring system. Organization-wide impacts included changes in the background check operations. To support changes, training was conducted and procedure manuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475019
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Progressing from identification and functional analysis of precursor behavior to treatment of self-injury.
Dracobly, Joseph Daniel - 2009
An evaluation of the utility of assessing and treating severe problem behavior through precursor functional analysis was completed. Ongoing measurement of problem behavior in two settings in the participant's natural environment was conducted for the duration of the study. A precursor to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475036
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Knowledge management in times of change: Tacit and explicit knowledge transfers.
Hall, Heather Leigh - 2005
This study proposed a look at the importance and challenges of knowledge management in times of great change. In order to understand the information phenomena of interest, impacts on knowledge workers and knowledge documents in times of great organizational change, the study is positioned in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475101
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Strategic planning and strategy formation : a case study of Asociacio´n Femenina Q'eqchi
Yarrow, Jessica - 2001
The purpose of this research is to apply theories and models in strategic planning and analysis to my professional experience working with the Asociación Femenina Q'eqchi (AFQ) in El Estor, Guatemala. My research questions are: How effective are AFQ's current programs based on their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449468
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Human resource management of foreign service nationals
Paul, Scott Alan - 2005
This paper examines the perceived effectiveness of various human resource management practices by United States supervisors in the United States Foreign Service. It attempts to identify, through the review of current human resource management literature and interviews with ten U.S. Foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449510