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Marketing Cultural Attractions: Understanding Non-Attendance and Visitation Barriers

Kay, Pandora; Wong, Emma; Polonsky, Michael Jay - 2009

Purpose ? The purpose of this paper is to draw together the previous academic and industry research on non-attendance of cultural attractions, followed by qualitative in-depth interviews to identify commonalities or gaps in the previous research on barriers, constraints and inhibitors, as well...

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Performance measurement in small motels in Australia

Bergin-Seers, Sue; Jago, Leo Kenneth - 2007

performance management in small firms. Most of these challenges are due to resource shortages, lack of functional expertise and … performance measurement by utilising a small number of key measures to monitor results and to review management activities. …

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Non-Audit Services and Auditor Independence : the Case of Saudi Arabia

Al-Eissa, Abdulaziz Ibraheim - 2009

The nature of the client-auditor relationship is a critical issue for stakeholders and other users of the audited financial statements. This type of relationship is predicated on trust; however, it is susceptible to differing motives, conflict of interest, and information asymmetries. An...

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Benchmarking small business performance: barriers and benefits

Bergin-Seers, Sue - 2000

Benchmarking is now a commonplace term in business and many definitions have been proposed. Despite its increasing popularity there is growing evidence that it is often used incorrectly. ?Benchmarking? seems to be confused with competitive comparison studies, which are simply a component part of...

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Pro-grouth small busimess: learning 'architecture'

Bergin-Seers, Sue; Morrison, Alison - 2002

Internationally, a certain market failure has become apparent in terms of the effective engagement of small business owner-managers in business support programs, and in the wider concept of life long learning. There exists a cultural gap between support agencies and the small business sector's...

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Culture and entrepreneurship in Fiji's small tourism business sector

Rao, Dorasammy R - 2004

, risk-taking skills, hard work and perseverance, sound financial management, ability to raise capital, values of materialism … and capitalism, prudent business planning, skills of savings and investment, good management skills, and building … poor education, lack of hard work and commitment, poor financial management, absence of material culture, inability to …

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Productive Diversity:Which Companies are Active and Why?

Pyke, Joanne - 2005

Productive Diversity is a government policy that aims to increase Australian businessaccess to, and success in, trading with increasingly diverse domestic and export marketsthrough the productive capacity of Australia's diverse labour market. Since 1992 whenthe policy was formally launched,...

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Directing Store Flyers to the Appropriate Audience

Miranda, Mario J; Konya, Laszlo - 2007

Grocery shoppers were questioned about the frequency of purchasing items that were featured in the store's flyers. This measure was used as the dependent variable in a multinomial logit model with the independent variables being various aspects of shopping behaviour, usage of store flyers, age...

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The hidden costs of cheap group tours: a case study of business practices in Australia

Prideaux, B; King, Brian; Hobson, P - 2006

This paper deals with an issue that has been identified in many markets where there are large numbers of package tourists. In Australia, there have been a number of studies undertaken into the use of a range of dubious business practices employed by Inbound Tour Operators (ITOs), particularly in...

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Development of a Process of Supply Chain Strategy Formulation: Action Research in Food Processing and Heavy Fabrication Industries

Sadler, Ian; Sohal, Amrik - 2005

Strategic operations planning can assist companies to improve their competitiveness but the process of planning for manufacturing operations and supply chains requires further improvement. This paper describes our development of a method of strategic operations planning called Strategic...

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