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We investigate how apprenticeship training affects the early career mobility and earnings profiles of young apprentices in Germany. The heterogeneous quality and nature (whether general or firm specific) of training across firms is expected to be reflected in the post-apprenticeship mobility and...
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According to set-point theories of subjective well-being, people react to events but then return to baseline levels of happiness and satisfaction over time. We tested this idea by examining reaction and adaptation to unemployment in a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 24,000 individuals...
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The characteristic of total factor productivity growth and technical change in the water and sewerage industry of England and Wales are examined within this article. Total factor productivity growth, technical change and the components of technical change are quantified using a time trend model....
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This paper examines the concept of sponsorship as an element of the marketing communications mix. The particular interest of the researchers is the contribution that sports sponsorship may make towards brand personality and awareness in the consumer's product adoption process. The paper is part...
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business-to consumer marketing, no significant studies have looked at business-to-business marketing, especially the … Internet and industrial environment that need to be considered for their international business decisions. The findings reveal … key components that have direct impact upon manufacturing SMEs when engaging in network business activities. Moreover, the …
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may be pivotal to the success of their entire business model? Senior executives need to be aware of the knowledge risks … to their company so that they can implement strategies to minimise the potentially damaging effects to their business of … practical experience, know-how and know-who. A business needs both types of knowledge as one without the other is often …
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now seeing business failures at an all time high. Those businesses that survive are often those with a unique offering … that customers cannot avoid/ignore, or those that evolve their business models to ensure that they remain competitive and … financially viable. The good news is that once the economy recovers, the surviving businesses will not only still be in business …
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out how dominant firms in a market with strong network effects adopt business innovations to sustain their market …
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Despite significant economic benefits of manufacture upgrade from original equipment manufacturing (OEM), through own design manufacturing (ODM) to own brand manufacturing (OBM), research on interfirm relationship development during the process of manufacture upgrade has remained...
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processes on a global scale. This study investigates the extent to which e-business tools of the e-marketplace are used by … channel members in the retail sector for business-to-business supply chain management (SCM). The study is based on a survey …
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