ECON 191, Fall 2012 Guidelines for Writing an Economics Research Paper Writing a good economics paper is both an exciting and a nontrivial task. It requires a sustained effort in identifying an important question and in developing a credible model to think about that question or a testable hypothesis to answer it. In many cases it may require collecting data that gives the opportunity to test the hypothesis that you develop. You are encouraged to structure your paper in four parts: introduction
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Personality Dimensions Revision Personality Dimensions is a new and exciting way of understand ourselves and others. Personality Dimensions is a temperament instrument that was developed in Career over a period of five years is supported by empirical research and continues to evolve as more and more people use it around the goals . The workshops are highly interactive and fun . Adult learning theory states that finding out for yourself through self-discovery rather than being
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Information Sharing in Supply Chains: An Empirical and Theoretical Valuation Ruomeng Cui, Gad Allon, Achal Bassamboo, Jan A. Van Mieghem* Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL April 10, 2013 We provide an empirical and theoretical assessment of the value of information sharing in a two-stage supply chain. The value of downstream sales information to the upstream firm stems from improving upstream order fulfillment forecast accuracy. Such improvement can lead to lower
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Experiential Learning (Kolb) Building upon earlier work by John Dewey and Kurt Levin, American educational theorist David A. Kolb believes “learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience” (1984, p. 38). The theory presents a cyclical model of learning, consisting of four stages shown below. One may begin at any stage, but must follow each other in the sequence: • concrete experience (or “DO”) • reflective observation (or “OBSERVE”) • abstract conceptualization
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The Philosophical Roots of Modern Psychology Aissa Gulbrandsen November 16, 2013 Psych/310 Professor Sharon Cohen Psychology is a relatively young science, just over a hundred years old. Philosophers over
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Growing up in Arkansas there were many things we were certain we knew and understood such as automotive body and engine work, fast cars, and small town politics to name a few. Just as the earliest philosophers found their intellectual foundations in the works of the pre-Socratics collective, we too, found our ways of thinking influenced by the work of older men in our families, other folk in the neighborhood, and those no longer with us. Their labor-intensive road map provided us the basic knowledge
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The United States distinctive contribution to philosophy is known as pragmatism or, sometimes, American pragmatism. Pragmatism is the philosophy where practical consequences and real effects are vital components of meaning and truth. Pragmatists rejected the idea that there is such a thing as fixed, absolute truth. Instead, they held that truth is relative to a time and place and purpose and is thus ever changing in light of new data. philosophical analysis resolves complex propositions or concepts
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------------------------------------------------- Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (German pronunciation: [ɪˈmaːnu̯eːl ˈkant]; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher from Königsberg in Prussia(today Kaliningrad, Russia) who researched, lectured and wrote on philosophy and anthropology during the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century.[1] Kant's major work, the Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft, 1781),[2] aimed to unite reason with experience to move beyond
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------------------------------------------------- If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! In thesis writing, the most difficult part to write is Chapter 1 (Introduction/The Problem). As they say, the most difficult part of any endeavor is the starting point. This is because the first chapter is where you conceptualize your entire research. The whole research/thesis can be reflected in Chapter 1 including expected results or outcomes. For your guidelines
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Journal of Organizational Behavior J. Organiz. Behav. 22, 43—58 (2001) Big-B versus Big-O: What is organizational about organizational behavior? CHIP HEATH* AND SIM B. SITKLN Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, U.S.A. Summary This paper is an empirically grounded essay about the current stare of organizational behavior (GB) research and productive future directions. We report the results of a survey of GB scholars about the current importance of various research
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