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about community needs, make financially-sensitive decisions more transparent, evaluate programs, and work with community … maps as a decision support tool. Further, it represents an integrated knowledge project in the community setting, calling … to question the applicability of traditional KT approaches when community values, minimal resources, and partners play a …
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Community, as traditionally conceptualized, has been an issue of widespread conversation and analysis. The conversation … on community is extended here by engaging in the business practice of fair trade, which boasts of being an ethical … environmental responsibility, however, the extent to which it is indeed effective in creating such a sustainable community in varied …
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literature on the implementation of ECs at the community level or the accessibility of ECs for small businesses. To address this … gap in the literature I first conducted a Community Readiness Assessment to understand the local community's readiness to … certification in the Champaign-Urbana community.The results of the CRA indicate the Champaign-Urbana community is at a preplanning …
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The purpose of this study was to explore to what extent the community and family factors such as spousal adjustment and … expatriated for children’s education were not related to expatriate adjustment. A sense of community turned out to have little …
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The scope of my dissertation is to understand how consumers’ online communication affects consumers’ behavior and market outcomes. The recent growth of consumer generated media (CGM), also known as “new” media, has provided consumers easier interaction, both to search for product...
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point to the real danger that theintent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition intelecommunications will …
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An important issue in economics is how market structure affects prices.While the standard view is that competition … access, with orwithout competition from a DSL provider, and using education dispersionand ethnic diversity as proxies for …, competition reduces prices. As preference becomes morediverse, the negative effect of competition on prices diminishes; andwhen …
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This paper highlights how the provision of information about userparticipation can serve as a strategic marketing tool for firms seekingto grow two-sided exchange networks. A two-sided exchange network is abusiness model (such as Ebay or Craiglist) where revenue is generatedfrom persuading...
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This paper empirically investigates the effect of international simpleresale (ISR) authorization on the prices for international messagetelephone service (IMTS). We compile a firm-level panel data set forover 200 United States-foreign country bilateral markets from 1995 to2004. These data...
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This talk is about leadership. Leaders are people at every level in an organization who believe in change and are energized by it. They understand the difficult realities of competitive existence. They motivate and challenge. They provide positive reinforcement -- but are never satisfied with...
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