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Zhang, Heather Xiaoquan - 2010

China has turned from a 'low risk' to a 'high risk' society since the start of the market reforms in the late 1970s. Market, while bringing diverse livelihood opportunities to rural people, has simultaneously distributed risks, and the exposure and vulnerability to them unequally among different...

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Critical Evaluation of Hazards Operability Versus Safety Integrity Risk Analysis Techniques

Malik, Mohammed - In: International Journal of Risk and Contingency … 7 (2018) 1, pp. 37-45

Many companies follow very systematic methodology for carrying out execution of Mega projects. Project risks are identified, analyzed and proposed mitigation actions are identified and agreed upon. This activity is carried out in Project Risk Workshop. While SIL and HAZOP workshops are broadly...

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Understanding project cost contingency - A survey

Baccarini, David - 2005

Patrascu (1988) observed nearly two decades ago that "contingency is probably the most misunderstood, misinterpreted …?s understanding of the concept of project cost contingency. This paper reports the results of a survey of 78 project practitioners …? comprehension of issues pertaining to project cost contingency. Whilst there is consensus that cost contingency is a reserve of …

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Organizational contexts and management accounting systems: an evaluation of contingency frameworks

Moores, Ken; Chenhall, Robert H. - 1991

Application of contingency frameworks to management accounting research comenced in the mid 1970s and dominated … of theory and method. This paper reviews developments in contingency style research over the past decade and attempts to … provide support for an emergent contingency framework for the design of management accounting systems (MAS). This framework …

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The use of networks in human resource acquisition for entrepreneurial firms: Multiple "fit" considerations

Leung, Aegean; Zhang, Jing; Wong, Poh Kam; Foo, Maw Der - 2006

This study proposes a multi-dimension, multi-contingent "fit" perspective for examining different practices adapted by entrepreneurial firms in acquiring human resources. We posit that while environmental constraints are important considerations for adapting recruitment practices through...

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The nature of the relationship between market orientation and performance

French, Mark J. - 2011

A review of the literature indicates that a universally enhancing relationship between market orientation and performance is not conclusively supported. Recent research suggests that the relationship between marketing investments and profit may be inverted U-shaped such that there is an optimal...

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The impact of enterprise resource planning on business performance: With the discussion on its relationship with open innovation

AlMuhayfith, Sara; Shaiti, Hani - In: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and … 6 (2020) 3, pp. 1-24

the factors contributing to the effective and successful use of an ERP system. The findings indicate seven contingency …

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Kompatibilität aus der Perspektive des Designs

Kießling, Marion - In: Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft 76 (2021) 3, pp. 318-326

Ergonomen wie Designer planen Mensch-Maschine-Systeme mit dem Ziel, den technischen Teil des Systems den menschlichen Eigengesetzlichkeiten anzupassen – Kompatibilität der Maschine mit dem Menschen herzustellen. Trotz des gemeinsamen Ziels gehen beide Disziplinen unterschiedlich mit dieser...

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Die unmöglichen Subjekte des Postfundamentalismus

Sörensen, Paul - In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 61 (2020) 1, pp. 15-38

Der Beitrag attestiert den gegenwärtig viel diskutierten Theorien radikaler Demokratie eine erziehungstheoretische Leerstelle. Wie in Auseinandersetzung mit Chantal Mouffe und Jacques Rancière gezeigt werden soll, gründet diese Nichtthematisierung in erster Linie in der...

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Towards a Model of Designing an Organizational Structure in a Knowledge Based Society

Vărzaru, Mihai; Jolivet, Eric - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 13 (2011) 30, pp. 620-631

The role of the manager in the knowledge society is to lead, in a productive and cost effective manner, a system that is at the crossroads of three worlds: the environment, the human and the organization. To ensure the continuity of the organization, the manager must choose an appropriate...

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