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El cambio climático, su gestión y mitigación, constituye sin duda uno de los elementos de riesgo más importantes que afrontará nuestra sociedad en las próximas décadas. El sector financiero desempeña un papel fundamental en este reto, tanto por su exposición y las consiguientes...
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Climate change and its management and mitigation are unquestionably among the main risks facing our society in the coming decades. The financial sector plays a key role in this challenge, firstly because of its exposure and the consequent capital shocks if this risk crystallises, and secondly...
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A Monte Carlo simulation study investigated the effect of scoring format, item parameterization, threshold configuration, and prior ability distribution on the accuracy of ability estimation given various IRT models. Item response data on 30 items from 1,000 examinees was simulated using known...
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network and thus stakeholder oriented project management is necessary in order to improve and handle socio-economic complexity …
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systems. It has been acknowledged that one key element of a project is stakeholder involvement. As such, failure to … project. However, stakeholder involvement practices are in many cases unsuccessful due to a set of gaps in the following areas …: 1) Time of stakeholder involvement: stakeholders are not involved early enough in the project lifecycle; 2) Depth of …
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Firms often face adverse environmental events which have the potential to destroy the value the firm has created. This study focuses on the occurrence of adverse events. In particular, we address the research question of what organizational and managerial characteristics impact shareholder...
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Saturn Corporation. Three questions are posed fora stakeholder theory: (1) Under what conditions is a stakeholder firm likely … to emerge,(2) what are the critical determinants of performance in a stakeholder firm, and (3)what will determine the …. Saturn?s governance structure, work organization, andinternal processes fit the characteristics of a stakeholder firm …
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Most large electric utilities and a growing number of gas utilities in the United States are using a planning method -- Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) - which incorporates demand-side management (DSM) programs whenever the marginal cost of the DSM programs are lower than the marginal cost of...
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The government electronics community faces the exciting challenge of entering into new of types of partnerships with the commercial electronics industry. Past interactions have been based primarily on the needs of government. Future interactions will be based more on the needs of industry,...
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structure and staffing, services, evaluation criteria, marketing strategies, client processes, a budget, incubator evaluation …
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