Electronics Contract Manufacturing: Global Production and the International Division of Labor in the Age of the Internet Boy Lüthje Institute of Social Research Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Senckenberganlage 26 60325 Frankfurt Germany E-mail: luethje@soz.uni-frankfurt.de Submitted for publication to Industry and Innovation – special issue on “Global Production Networks, Information Technology and Local Capabilities”, coordinated by Linsu Kim and Dieter Ernst Comments welcome, please
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HOW DO CFOS MAKE CAPITAL BUDGETING AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE DECISIONS? by John Graham and Campbell Harvey, Duke University* e recently conducted a comprehensive survey that analyzed the current practice of corporate finance, with particular focus on the areas of capital budgeting and capital structure. The survey results enabled us to identify aspects of corporate practice that are consistent with finance theory, as well as aspects that are hard to reconcile with what we teach in our business
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The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at http://www .emeraldinsight.com/researchregister EJM 37,3/4 476 Received July 2001 Accepted May 2002 The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at h ttp://www.emeraldinsigh t.com/0309-056 6.htm Marketing planning, market orientation and business performance Sue Pulendran Gartner Group, Sydney, Australia Richard Speed Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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emergent cultural landscape of open source branding, and identify marketing strategies directed at the hunt for consumer engagement on the People’s Web. These strategies present a paradox, for to gain coveted resonance, the brand must relinquish control. We discuss how Webbased power struggles between marketers and consumer brand authors challenge accepted branding truths and paradigms: where short-term brands can trump longterm icons; where marketing looks more like public relations; where brand
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HOW DO CFOS MAKE CAPITAL BUDGETING AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE DECISIONS? by John Graham and Campbell Harvey, Duke University* e recently conducted a comprehensive survey that analyzed the current practice of corporate finance, with particular focus on the areas of capital budgeting and capital structure. The survey results enabled us to identify aspects of corporate practice that are consistent with finance theory, as well as aspects that are hard to reconcile with what we teach in our business
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Andrew Whalley Strategic Marketing Download free eBooks at bookboon.com 2 Strategic Marketing © 2010 Andrew Whalley & Ventus Publishing ApS ISBN 978-87-7681-643-8 Download free eBooks at bookboon.com 3 Contents Strategic Marketing Contents Preface 9 1. 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.3.1 1.3.2 1.3.3 1.3.4 1.3.5 1.3.6 1.3.7 1.4. 1.4.1 1.4.2 1.5 So what is marketing? The Three levels of Marketing The value of Marketing; Needs
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AMSS Applications Season 2004\05 Introduction 4 1.1 Objective 5 1.2 Concepts 5 1.2.1 CNS-ATM 6 1.2.2 RNAV 7 1.2.3 Free Flight 8 1.2.4 Gate to Gate 9 2 GNSS 10 2.1 Global position constellation 14 2.1.1 Global Position System (GPS) 14 2.1.2 GLONASS 17 2.1.3 Galileo 18 2.2 SBAS 21 2.2.1 WAAS 22 2.2.2 EGNOS 23 2.2.3 MTSAS 25 2.3 GBAS 26 2.3.1 DGPS 26 2.3.1.1 LAAS 28 2.3.2 RTK 28 2.3.3 GRAS 29 2.3.4 VDL
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Journal of Operations Management 17 Ž1998. 59–75 The TQM Paradox: Relations among TQM practices, plant performance, and customer satisfaction Thomas Y. Choi ) , Karen Eboch Department of Management, College of Business Administration, Bowling Green State UniÕersity, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0270, USA Received 14 January 1997; accepted 17 November 1997 Abstract We empirically examine a mediational model of TQM, in which TQM practices have a direct impact on customer satisfaction and an indirect
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UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL STUDIES Destruction of Cape San (Bushman) Society The hunter-gatherer communities of the Cape Colony were almost entirely destroyed as a result of pervasive settler violence under both Dutch and British colonial rule. Some scholars argue that the land dispossession, enforced labour incorporation, periodic massacre, and suppression of their culture inflicted on the San constitute genocide. While developments through the 18th century have been
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emergent cultural landscape of open source branding, and identify marketing strategies directed at the hunt for consumer engagement on the People’s Web. These strategies present a paradox, for to gain coveted resonance, the brand must relinquish control. We discuss how Webbased power struggles between marketers and consumer brand authors challenge accepted branding truths and paradigms: where short-term brands can trump longterm icons; where marketing looks more like public relations; where brand
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