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Is there a global multichannel consumer?

Rippé, Cindy B.; Weisfeld-Spolter, Suri; Yurova, Yuliya; … - In: International Marketing Review 32 (2015) 3/4, pp. 329-349

, Singapore and the USA. The model was estimated using partial least square and country comparisons were conducted with a multi …. In-store salesperson remains important and effective for MCCs in the USA and Singapore, but not Russia. Originality … consumers perceive to have more knowledge than the vendors. …

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Robotic mailman who does not ring twice, yet

Bloss, Dick - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 29 (2002) 6, pp. 507-510

Unique dual gantry robots from ABB handle trays and totes of mail at postal sorting centers. Automation has increased the efficiency and accuracy of distributing mail to containers which are used to move the mail on to other post offices or to other sorting stations within the distribution...

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Mobile robots: big benefits for US military

Pransky, Joanne - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 24 (1997) 2, pp. 126-130

Describes two types of mobile robots designed for the US military. One is the mobile detection assessment response system (MDARS), which is an automated robotic security and inventory system capable of patrolling interior and exterior warehouses and storage sites for the Department of Defense....

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ROBODOC ‐ surgical robot success story

Pransky, Joanne - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 24 (1997) 3, pp. 231-233

Describes the history of Integrated Surgical Systems (ISS), the US company that created ROBODOC, a surgical robot system used to perform total human hip replacement surgery, and ORTHODOC, a computer workstation that enables orthopaedic surgeons to examine a patient’s bone more accurately and...

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The potential of community entrepreneurship for neighbourhood revitalization in the United Kingdom and the United States

Varady, David; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 9 (2015) 3, pp. 253-276

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to assess the current potential of community entrepreneurship in neighbourhood revitalisation in the US and the UK. The global economic crisis has had a major impact on government spending for urban regeneration. In the context of these austerity regimes, in...

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Evaluating the legitimacy of entrepreneurship and small business as a field of study

C. Heriot, Kirk; Jauregui, Andres; Huning, Tobias; … - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 8 (2014) 1, pp. 4-19

Purpose – The paper aims to clarify a debate about the legitimacy of entrepreneurship as a field of study. Katz and Kuratko continued this discussion by evaluating the legitimacy as an academic discipline. Their work extends the earlier contributions of Stephenson, Meyer, Finkle et al. , and...

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The changing relationships between government bond yields and capitalisation rates

Jones, Colin; Dunse, Neil; Cutsforth, Kevin - In: Journal of European Real Estate Research 8 (2015) 2, pp. 153-171

real estate yields/capitalization rates over time for the UK, Australia and the USA. The global financial crisis was a …

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Measuring the change in productive efficiency in telecommunications in the USA

Uri, Noel D. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 29 (2002) 2, pp. 150-167

Incentive regulation has become an important regulatory tool in the telecommunications industry in the USA. The issue …

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An experiment with two‐way offers into court: restoring the balance in pre‐trial negotiation

Main, Brian G.M.; Park, Andrew - In: Journal of Economic Studies 30 (2003) 2, pp. 125-143

will lead to out of court settlement. Both in the UK following the Woolf Report and the Cullen Report and in the USA, the …

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Underlying dimensions of business location decisions

Karakaya, Fahri; Canel, Cem - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 98 (1998) 7, pp. 321-329

Most previous studies dealing with business site selection decisions have been theoretical and mainly concerned with cost factors. There are many variables other than cost, some of which are qualitative and intangible in nature. This study attempts to provide empirical evidence on the importance...

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