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Relational Demography in the Service Sector: How the "Work Community" Influences Employee Transfer and Turnover

Dyer, Naomi - 2005

Studies of relational demography examine the relationship between the extent to which employees' demographic characteristics differ from their co-workers' and employees' behaviors. In this dissertation, I examined not only the effects on employee withdrawal behavior of an employee's demographic...

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Local content development in the Nigerian oil and gas industry : why it is not succeeding? / C.O. Obi

Obi, Chuka Obinna - 2008

industrial development. This research identifies reasons for the ineffective implementation of the Nigerian content policy and … will develop a framework that will address holistically the factors needed to ensure industrial growth through proper … domestically based industrial competence while exploiting their petroleum resources and also the necessary conditions that was in …

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Identifying key competences of industrial design and technology graduates in small and medium-sized enterprises

Garner, Steve; Duckworth, Adrian - 1999

Industrial design graduates can be true ‘agents of change’ in manufacturing industry andnowhere is this potential more … lightof emerging needs of SMEs in the UK. There is a huge potential amongst the SME sector tocapitalise on industrial design …) sector in design and relatedstudies and a growing industrial base of SMEs there is an important need for research whichwould …

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Novelty, Complexity, and Importance as Causal Determinants of Industrial Buyer Behavior

McQuiston, Daniel H. - 1989

To successfully market their products, industrial vendors must determine who participates in an organizational purchase … purchase situations. Though industrial marketing researchers would agree that there are different types of purchase situations … determinants of participation and influence in an industrial purchase decision. The results indicate that these constructs …

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Modelling productivity effects of trade openness : a dual approach

Paul, Satya; Marks, Andrew - 2009

A cost function framework is used to model the productivity effect of trade openness in terms of cost saving. The idea of ?cost saving? is closer to the entrepreneur?s view of productivity. An entrepreneur would expect a reduction in the cost of production if trade openness brings any benefits...

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Strategic manipulation and information market microstructure

Gangopadhyay, Partha - University of Western Sydney; College of Law and Business; … - 2004

This paper presents a model of strategic manipulation in the context of an informational duopoly. The fact that market manipulation by these duopolists may affect their cost and demand structures implies that they can strategically manipulate the market in order to influence the information...

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The effects of standard difficulty and compensation method on the parameters of the industrial learning curve and overall performance of manual assembly and disassembly tasks

Cocco, Anthony F

The industrial learning curve has been widely recognized as an important cost planning tool. Limited empirical work has … because it seemed to require skills similar to what would be required for industrial assembly tasks. Six treatment groups were …The industrial learning curve has been widely recognized as an important cost planning tool. Limited empirical work has …

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Influences on the performance of organizational knowledge transfer.

Meckler, Mark Robert. - Florida Atlantic University

Knowledge is a resource and an important asset that organizations leverage to attain their goals. In a competitive environment, efficient and effective transfer of knowledge within the firm is a strategic imperative. In each organization a system through which knowledge flows, arises by design...

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Consumers' perceptions of unethical market behavior: A comparison of multiple models of the cognitive structure of unethical practices

Hansen, Randall Scott

While there is considerable theoretical and empirical research in the marketing ethics literature, a major void exists in the examination and understanding of consumers' perceptions of unethical behavior.

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Evaluating the impact of feedback about tips on waiter performance

Kessler, Maria Lynn

Feedback has been a widely used procedure in many Performance Management interventions. Despite the popularity of feedback as an intervention, few systematic analyses of the functions and effects of feedback used alone have been conducted. The present study was designed to investigate the...

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