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Marketing Tools of Increase of Company's Competitiveness under Crisis Conditions

Bolotnaya Oksana V. - In: Business Inform (2013) 5, pp. 333-337

The article provides analysis of modern methods of management of company competitiveness, directed at reduction of … methods of increase of competitiveness (acquiring competitive advantages in the market) of shadow tools, in particular, the …

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Complex economic control of turnover of the company capital

Kaminskaya Tatyana G. - In: The Problems of Economy (2013) 1, pp. 221-225

The article considers main issues and problems of building a system of complex economic control of turnover of the company capital. It studies views of scientists on various aspects of control of capital in Ukrainian companies. It justifies a necessity of a complex and system control of capital...

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Task Interdependence and Some Unanswered Issues About Goal-Setting Effects

Hirst, Mark K. - In: Australian Journal of Management 12 (1987) 1, pp. 57-68

Recent developments in the goal-setting literature have suggested a change in that area's research agenda. Specifically, theoretical developments, which examine how goal-setting affects perfor Mance, suggest that more attention be given to learning, task and chronic effects in goal-setting...

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Some Unanswered Questions about Goal Effects: A Recommended Change in Research Methods

Wood, Robert E.; Bailey, Trevor C. - In: Australian Journal of Management 10 (1985) 1, pp. 61-73

Goal setting has been described to managers as a â€œmotivational technique that worksâ€ (Locke and Latham, 1984), despite a lack of theoretical explanations in the organisational behaviour literature about why, how or when it works. Recent advances have been made in the development of...

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Corridor Location for Infrastructure Development

Medrano, F. Antonio; Church, Richard L. - In: International Regional Science Review 37 (2014) 2, pp. 129-148

Corridor location for developing new infrastructure such as transmission lines, roadways, and pipelines over terrain must consider numerous factors when determining the set of optimal route candidates. Previous researchers have cast this problem as a multiobjective least cost path problem, where...

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ADVANCED COSTING METHODS AND THEIR UTILITY IN ORGANIZING MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING

Rof, Letiția Maria - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2012) 18, pp. 62-69

The main objective of this scientific approach is to underline the specific and utility of advanced costing methods … starting from the limits of classic costing methods. The results of this study are materialized in delimiting the main modern … costing methods, how costs and causes behind costs are identified, particularly how they interfere in cost reduction and …

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Marginalized identities, discrimination burden, and mental health: Empirical exploration of an interpersonal-level approach to modeling intersectionality

Seng, Julia S.; Lopez, William D.; Sperlich, Mickey; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 12, pp. 2437-2445

Intersectionality is a term used to describe the intersecting effects of race, class, gender, and other marginalizing characteristics that contribute to social identity and affect health. Adverse health effects are thought to occur via social processes including discrimination and structural...

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Asking Questions to Understand Rural Livelihoods: Comparing Disaggregated vs. Aggregated Approaches to Household Livelihood Questionnaires

Jagger, Pamela; Luckert, Marty K.; Banana, Abwoli; … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 9, pp. 1810-1823

This study tests the hypothesis that both disaggregated and aggregated data collection methods produce similar … methods of data collection yield substantively different estimates of livelihood strategies for two indicators: income and … demonstrate that different methods of data collection influence our understanding of rural livelihoods. …

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Development of theoretical bases and methodical maintenance formations of the strategic purposes developments of region

Shekhovtseva, Lidiya - In: Economy of region 1 (2010) 3, pp. 48-54

Becoming region as subject of development and formation of the strategic purposes is proved. The concept of the regional strategic purposes is developed idecisive. Hierarchical and coalition mechanisms of formation of the regional purposes are used. Techniques of a choice and an estimation of...

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Microcredit Impact Assessment: The Brazilian and Chilean Cases

Aroca, Patricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of micro-entrepreneurs income on two Brazilian and Chilean microcredit programs. Drawing on two unique sources of data, control groups are built using the propensity score to match beneficiaries of micro-credit programs with non-beneficiaries...

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