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Melewar, T C; Badal, E; Small, J - 2005

This paper analyses the branding strategy of a leading French food producer in the fast growing Chinese market. The company, Danone Group (DG), has long been operating internationally with success. However, like several multinational enterprises, its initial entry into China was a failure....

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Development and Application of an Analytical Framework for the Measurement of Customer Service Quality in the Banking Industry of Cyprus

Rossides, Yiannos - 2011

banking industry, and consequently establish a reliable and valid service quality measurement instrument for Cypriot banks … result of this analysis, a modified version of the perceptions’ side of SERVQUAL was constructed as a measurement scale of … consistency measurement. This analysis helped to prove the validity and reliability of the modified instrument used to measure …

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Optimality, Sub-optimality, Nirvana, and Transaction Costs Foraging on the Commons

Feeny, David - 1995

choice of viewpoint from which to assess outcomes, time horizon, choice of normative system, measurement properties of the …

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Designing Incentives for Inexpert Human Raters

Chen, Daniel L.; Horton, John J.; Shaw, Aaron D. - 2011

The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this paper, we report the results of an experiment - conducted in an online labor market - that measured the effectiveness of...

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Ability Estimation Under Different Item Parameterization and Scoring Models

Si, Ching-Fung B. - 2002

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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The implications of a switch to locally varying business rates

Denny, Kevin; Ridge, Michael - 1992

It has been nearly 2 years since the UK government reformed the system of local business rates to introduce a uniform business rate (UBR), but the debate continues over the merits of the new system. The change across regions in the revenues raised by the uniform system of business rates...

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The research of dynamic errors of the mechatronical line scale comparator

Kilikevičius, Artūras - 2009

counting coefficients. For this solution we need thoroughly to make line scale measurement means analysis, because most of the … applied in the evaluation or monitoring of measurement systems, the state of machinery and aggregates. Monitoring of … measurement parameter and evaluation its change in time, and taking appropriate actions according to results, helps to evaluate …

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Internationalisation and Performance: Exploring Measurement Issues and the Impact of Measurement Alternatives

Alday, Sandra Seno - 2011

, extending the frontiers of the debate by approaching it from the angle of measurement. Notably, it proposes a theoretically and …

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Measuring board diversity: A systematic literature review of data sources, constructs, pitfalls, and suggestions for future research

Behlau, Hendrik; Wobst, Janice; Lueg, Rainer - In: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 31 (2023) 2, pp. 977-992

The purpose of this systematic literature review is to provide a comprehensive overview of the methods used to measure board diversity. We develop a framework to structure empirical studies and develop an agenda for future research. We selected 61 empirical articles from an initial sample of...

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Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan During and After the Global Financial Crisis

Gang, Ira; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John; Yun, … - 2016

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