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Influence of marketing mix elements on the intention of sugarcane farmers in Thailand to use commercial tailor-made fertiliser
Hothongcum, Krichanont; Suwunnamek, Opal; … - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 11 (2015) 1, pp. 1-18
Tailor-made fertiliser (TMF) is a new practice in Thailand that aims to achieve a more efficient use of a fertiliser on cultivated soil. This study attempts to determine farmers' attitudes toward a marketing mix of TMF and to investigate factors influencing the farmers' intention to use TMF in...
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ROMANIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ETHICS AND LEADERSHIP WITHIN LABOR MANAGEMENT
NICA, Elvira; POPESCU, Gheorghe - In: Proceedings of Administration and Public Management … 7 (2011) 1, pp. 73-80
The current rough changes among civil servants are leaving behind mighty stamps and question marks in relation to their social responsibilities towards public customers. Hence, Romanian public administration ethics and leadership within labor management tends to become a high priority within...
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On the efficiency of fiscal competition for FDI when incumbent firms are foreign-owned
Ferrett, Ben; Hoefele, Andreas - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 694-701
efficiency of the fiscal competition between the region's constituent countries for a new FDI project. If incumbent firms are …
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A Bayesian stochastic frontier analysis of Chinese fossil-fuel electricity generation companies
Chen, Zhongfei; Barros, Carlos Pestana; Borges, Maria Rosa - In: Energy Economics 48 (2015) C, pp. 136-144
This paper analyses the technical efficiency of Chinese fossil-fuel electricity generation companies from 1999 to 2011 …, using a Bayesian stochastic frontier model. The results reveal that efficiency varies among the fossil-fuel electricity … efficiency of these companies. Policy implications are derived. …
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Optimal stepped wedge designs
Lawrie, Jock; Carlin, John B.; Forbes, Andrew B. - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 99 (2015) C, pp. 210-214
Stepped wedge randomised trials are increasingly popular. Here we derive the optimal design for a fixed number of periods; this does not allocate an equal number of cluster units to each treatment sequence as might otherwise have been expected.
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The effect of inertia and flap on autorotation applied for hydrokinetic energy harvesting
Bakhshandeh Rostami, Ali; Fernandes, Antonio Carlos - In: Applied Energy 143 (2015) C, pp. 312-323
This paper outlines the results for a set of experiments carried out on Vertical Axis Autorotation Current Turbine (VAACT) which is an innovative concept among the other low-head hydrokinetic energy converters. The VAACT is a one degree of freedom hinged plate which utilizes the autorotation...
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Consistent subsets: Computationally feasible methods to compute the Houtman–Maks-index
Heufer, Jan; Hjertstrand, Per - In: Economics Letters 128 (2015) C, pp. 87-89
We provide two methods to compute the largest subset of a set of observations that is consistent with the Generalised Axiom of Revealed Preference. The algorithm provided by Houtman and Maks (1985) is not computationally feasible for larger data sets, while our methods are not limited in that...
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Does transparency imply efficiency? The case of the European soccer betting market
Oikonomidis, Anastasios; Bruce, Alistair C.; Johnson, … - In: Economics Letters 128 (2015) C, pp. 59-61
We discover mispricing in an apparently transparent market — the European soccer betting market. Efficiency differences … between countries are accounted for by variations in league competitiveness. We conclude that barriers to efficiency (e …
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The StoNED age: The Departure Into a New Era of Efficiency Analysis? An MC study Comparing StoNED and the "Oldies" (SFA and DEA)
Andor, Mark; Hesse, Frederik - Institut für Siedlungs- und Wohnungswesen, …
Based on the seminal paper of Farrell (1957), researchers have developed several methods for measuring eciency. Nowadays, the most prominent representatives are nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) and parametric stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), both introduced in the late 1970s....
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LA INVESTIGACIÓN EN LA EMPRESA FAMILIAR: UN DEBATE SOBRE LA EXISTENCIA DE UN CAMPO INDEPENDIENTE /
Basco Rodrigo, J. T. - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 12 (2006) 1, pp. 33-54
La empresa familiar ha creado, en la década de los noventa, un espacio de nuevas tendencias en la investigación logrando abrirse camino como ámbito de estudio desde la Dirección de Empresas. El escepticismo que genera la existencia de un posible campo intelectual ha iniciado un debate sobre...
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