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controlled experiment in the context of a new product evaluation to confirm the causal effects.  …
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perceived risk. Research limitations/implications Although the experiment was replicated in a different region and students with …
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religious representations increased cooperation in the experiment, that is, increased contributions to the public good. The …
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Purpose – In this study, an optimal green product is selected from three newly developed ecological products and a non-environmentally friendly product. An analytic network process (ANP), used widely for multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), is applied to account for the tradeoff issues among...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of public‐private partnership (PPP) and the ability of private consortia and public authorities to together develop solutions that reduce building energy consumptions. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews the...
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Surveys the field research literature in management accounting and control (MAC) published in the period 1984‐1992. Proposes a definition of field research and compares the 82 published works that meet this definition with respect to their motivations, research designs and presentation...
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Drawing a framework from Gibbins et al . (1990), uses information collected from field interviews to isolate those factors which influence the voluntary disclosure practices of New Zealand life insurance companies. Interview evidence suggests that voluntary disclosure is a multi‐dimensional...
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This article is concerned with issues of validity and reliability in field research. It examines the nature of, and threats to validity and reliability in field studies and documents some strategies and tactics that may be employed to counter those threats. At a time when field research is...
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program on two effectiveness measures: responses per rating point and responses per cost using a field experiment. A total of …
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/methodology/approach Longitudinal field research is combined with an exploratory field-quasi-experiment. First, a large set of Lean interventions were … focus. Second, this study investigated whether a knowledge deficiency could explain the identified focus through a quasi-experiment … waste. A quasi-experiment demonstrated that a small investment in knowledge enables the focus to shift toward buffers and …
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