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The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to suggest and operationalise several important extensions and improvements in the methodology used to evaluate regional economic effects of the large-scale transport infrastructure and pricing policies. The main contributions are divided into the static...
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Bucket pricing entails a prepaid price and a maximum consumption limit, which requires consumers to make advance purchase decisions before their consumption needs are fully revealed. We propose a dynamic model that involves how consumers form expectations of future consumption needs, learn to...
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The body of literature surrounding emotional labor, defined as service employees’ effort to manage their emotions to meet organizational goals (Hochschild, 1983; Morris & Feldman, 1996), exhibits a severe lack of studies examining intercultural service encounters (i.e., service episodes in which a...
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As transformações ocorridas após a privatização do setor ferroviário, aliada a criação da agência reguladora (Agência Nacional de Transportes Terrestre - ANTT), fizeram com que a estrutura de governança desse setor fosse alterada. A nova forma de coordenação em que as ferrovias...
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Which form of exchange governance performs better in a dynamic environment? This remains an unanswered question in the transaction cost analysis (TCA) and relational exchange literatures. Some researchers purport that transactional governance provides superior performance by providing firms the...
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Transportation and land use research of the past decade has focused in large part on the question of whether manipulating land uses in the direction of “smart growth” alternatives can reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) or otherwise improve travel behavior. Yet the notion of...
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transportation providers towards being logistics service providers. Most of the top 20 liner carriers worldwide hale set up spin …-offs providing services from local booking up to 3rd party logistics services, combining the business advantages of tight linkages …
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topics were developed in accordance with the model proposed in Logistics, Strategy and Structure: A Conceptual Framework … the selected sample. Section II of the survey posed questions directly dealing with logistics costs, competitive advantage …, strategy and performance.With regard to logistics costs, the research sought to determine the most significant costs, as …
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