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In recent years, dramatic changes in business factors have triggered a trend of manufacturing relocation out of 'The World's Factory', which is the Pearl River Delta (PRO), China. Global manufacturers in PRO have been facing unprecedented operating cost pressure, due to RI1B currency...
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rational description of the uncertainty inherent in both domains, the analysis of their interaction. Little research to date …
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There is increasing agreement that understanding complexity is important for project management because of difficulties associated with decision-making and goal attainment which appear to stem from complexity. However the current operational definitions of complex projects, based upon size and...
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Generally speaking, psychologists have suggested three traditional views of how people cope with uncertainty. They are … uncertainty, such as the recent global financial crisis, these coping methods often result in innovation in industry. Richards … analysis, reveals that coping with uncertainty manifests itself in ways that have resulted in innovations in design, marketing …
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availability of uncertain soil information and production uncertainty can lead risk-averse farmers to apply more fertilizers and … generate more pollution. Ignoring the impact of uncertainty and risk preferences of farmers leads to a significant …
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when deciding to enroll in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) under uncertainty. A theoretical model is employed to …
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abatement investment and taxes when the cost of the environmental regulation varies spatially under uncertainty. It contributes … environmental regulation uncertainty. An increase in the cost of the environmental regulation moves a risk-averse firm closer to the …. Uncertainty about environmental regulations in the form of the abatement investment and taxes also leads a risk-averse firm to …
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Risk and uncertainty in a water market will generate trading patterns that differ from those expected under conditions …
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The functional specification of mean-standard deviation approach is examined under location and scale parameter condition. Firstly, the full set of restrictions imposed on the mean-standard deviation function under the location and scale parameter condition are made clear. Secondly, the...
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as mitigate the adverse economic effects of droughts. This paper looks at the risks and uncertainty dimensions of water …, the role that uncertainty plays in market participants' decisions and its impact on gains from trade. Two models have been … endogeneity is solved by an iterative process, which characterise price uncertainty from the results obtained from the spatial …
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