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Important aspects of leadership behavior can be rendered intelligible through a focus on coordination games. The concept of common knowledge is shown to be particularly important to understanding leadership. Thus, leaders may establish common knowledge conditions and assist the coordination of...
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The iron industry was fully industrialized by the seventeenth century. The initial ironmasters were landowners, with clerks managing their ironworks. Professional ironmasters emerged from the clerks by the 1600s. The largest iron businesses (such as that of the Foley family described here) had...
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Risk is a phenomenon that should not be neglected in the decision-making process. It is a fact because there is uncertainty and the impossibility of predicting the exact time of its occurrence in otherwords, even if there is a particular risk likely to occur or occurs.
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If a university, due to the nature of its activities (teaching and search activities), organization, structure and functionality specific purpose for which they were established mainly with direct educational development and the other two components of the knowledge triangle, research and...
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scale farmers through the protection and management of spontaneous regeneration. …
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Little is known about producers' willingness to use manure. Past studies have focused on substitutability for fertilizers. We surveyed crop producers in a cattle-dense region of the Colorado Plains about whether and why they apply manure, focusing on how pressures (like owning cattle) or...
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We comment on four aspects of Albers' [1] model of ecological constraints on tropical forest management. Albers … management, we contend instead that the results of a truly general, empirically defensible model are inherently ambiguous … have us believe. Note: Forthcoming in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management …
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This article presents some findings of the E-Learning Manager (ELM) Project regarding the skills an e-learning manager should possess in order to achieve his/her mission. At this point the project is still in the first stage of it. For the design of the s
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The main objective of this research is to provide a detailed perspective of the operational risk in the case of commercial bank. The research is based on the main regulations and procedures in the field of the operational banking risk, and it presents the
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