48 Foreign-Market Entry Strategies in the European Union Kyle Stiegert, Archie Amir Ardalan, and Thomas Marsh This study utilized intra-firm, socio-cultural, geographical-proximity, and political-stability variables to explain bimodal foreign direct investment (FDI) patterns by agri-food and beverage multinational companies into and within the European Union. A logit framework incorporated a unique-count database of firm-level investment patterns from 1987–1998. The results showed the 1992 structural
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1 EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Unit Structure 1.0 Objectives 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Sources Acquiring Knowledge 1.3 Meaning, Steps and Scope of Educational Research 1.4 Scientific Method, aims and characteristics of research as a scientific activity 1.5 Ethical considerations in Educational Research 1.6 Paradigms of Educational research 1.7 Types of Research 1.7.a Fundamental 1.7.b Applied Research 1.7.c. Action Research 1.0 OBJECTIVES : After reading this unit, you will be able
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loyalty among small scale savers. This was a descriptive sample survey which targeted 100 customers of Equity bank Nairobi. The specific objectives of this study were to establish who loyal customers to Equity are, to determine the factors that make the customer satisfied, to examine how awareness work to help brand loyalty and to determine what factors need to be improved to increase customer satisfaction in Equity Bank. A questionnaire was used as an aid for data collection where both open
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education for the development of our lives and civilizations is beyond dispute. The current higher education is running on a declined line. One of the most likely treatments is the adoption of industry-successful quality systems and specifically TQM. The research tries to investigate the challenges and
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Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) for children in the kindergarten cohort, who were recruited at age 4 into the study. At the time of the Wave 2 data collection in 2006, these children were in Year 1 and 2 at school. Research findings on parental involvement are first briefly reviewed, and then the analyses using the LSAC data are discussed. I Questions considered include: What expectations do parents have for their child’s education? How responsive do parents believe
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Date ______________________ ___________________ __________________ Examiner Signature Date Declaration I hereby declare that this project is my original work has not been presented for a degree in any other university and all sources of materials used for the project has been duly acknowledged. Declared by DESALEGN AMLAKU GUGISSA Student ID. No GSR /1996/01 ____________________ Signature JUNE, 2010 Date Confirmation by Advisor Ato Teshome Bekele Advisor ___________________ Signature JUNE, 2010
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.............2 2- Rationale..............................................................................................3 3- Aims & objectives................................................................................3-4 4- Research questions...............................................................................4 5- Hypothesis...........................................................................................5 II- Literature review..................
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tables and graphs representing the checking account balances in peso and the distribution of it among the four branches. It also includes characteristics of the accounts in terms of number of ATM transactions in the month, number of other bank services used, clients who have debit card and those who don’t have, clients who receive interest on the account and those who don’t. It was determined that the balance of a typical customer based on the data of the account balances in peso per client given
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know about statistical ideas and techniques • The “must-know” formulas and calculations • Core topics in quick, focused lessons Deborah Rumsey, PhD Auxiliary Professor and Statistics Education Specialist, The Ohio State University Statistics Essentials FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Deborah Rumsey, PhD Statistics Essentials For Dummies® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River St. Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
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Slide 1 Email: jkanglim@unimelb.edu.au Office: Room 1110 Redmond Barry Building Website: http://jeromyanglim.googlepages.com/ Appointments: For appointments regarding course or with the application of statistics to your thesis, just send me an email Cluster Analysis & Factor Analysis 325-711 Research Methods 2007 Lecturer: Jeromy Anglim “Of particular concern is the fairly routine use of a variation of exploratory factor analysis wherein the researcher uses principal components analysis (PCA),
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