Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly http://cqx.sagepub.com Why Restaurants Fail H. G. Parsa, John T. Self, David Njite and Tiffany King Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly 2005; 46; 304 DOI: 10.1177/0010880405275598 The online version of this article can be found at: http://cqx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/46/3/304 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: The Center for Hospitality Research of Cornell University Additional services
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Introduction The business as per the generally acceptable notion is a profit making entity and takes into account function of monetary transactions as the criteria measure for the success of its operational activities. Corporate social responsibility in the past is considered as unwanted activities which are imposed on business by law and governing bodies as unnecessary burden which is against the basic principle of profit making for the business organizations. Business organizations have been
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Asia-Pacific Science and Culture Journal, Vol. 1, No. 4, 12-30 OPEN ACCESS ISSN 2220-4504 www.ieit-web.org/apscj The Scope and Impact of Workplace Diversity in the United Arab Emirates – An Initial Study Badreya Al-Jenaibi (United Arab Emirates) 1,* 1 Department of Mass Communication, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates, P.O Box 15551 E-Mails: E-mail: aljenaibi@uaeu.ac.ae * Department of Mass Communication, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates, P
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who are technologically literate, globally astute, and operationally agile. And even as the demand for talent goes up, the supply of it will be going down (Fishman, 1998 cf. Trank et al., 2002). This seems to particularly hold true in case of the motor vehicle industry in Bangladesh which requires high quality and highly skilled labour force to cater to the rapidly increasing global demand for communication services but is currently facing an increasing shortage of skills supply. Moreover, due
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generally as a unit or units of measure to gauge a company's performance and provide the company's employees with a standard to improve. The current interest in performance measurements has led to a variety of supporting adages or clichés in the industry, such as: • “Anything measured improves.” • “What you measure is what you get.” • “Anything measured gets done.” • “You can’t manage what you do not measure.” These are not new business ideas, but there are a few new twists. Using measurements
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out the reasonable impacts of perception on the relationship between variables and consumer behaviors. A questionnaire was developed and distributed to men who are in the age range between 15-45 years old and living in Karlstad, Sweden. The total sample consists of 94 respondents. Further, the returned questionnaires were analyzed by using factor analysis, correlation and path analysis in SPSS version 16.0. The results of the study indicated that the numbers of ‘men who use skin care products’ and
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ABRIDGED GIVING WINGS TO WORLD ECONOMIC RECOVERY THROUGH MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION INNOVATIONS. BY DR ISAH MOMOH, 16 AUGUST, 2011 Tels: 234 803 196 1363; 802 325 8362; 809 569 3433 Email: imomoh@smc.edu.ng; isahmomoh3@yahoo.com; isahmomoh@gmail.com. School of Media and Communication (SMC) Pan African University, 2 Ahmed Onibudo Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria Tels: 01 4616170-2; 2711617-20 Email: info@smc.edu.ng
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Research paper Supply chain management integration and implementation: a literature review Damien Power Department of Management, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review a sample of the literature relating to the integration and implementation of supply chain management practices from a strategic viewpoint. Design/methodology/approach – The literature is examined from three perspectives. First, supply chain integration covers
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In memory of Amos Tversky Contents Introduction Part I. Two Systems 1. The Characters of the Story 2. Attention and Effort 3. The Lazy Controller 4. The Associative Machine 5. Cognitive Ease 6. Norms, Surprises, and Causes 7. A Machine for Jumping to Conclusions 8. How Judgments Happen 9. Answering an Easier Question Part II. Heuristics and Biases 10. The Law of Small Numbers 11. Anchors 12. The Science of Availability 13. Availability, Emotion, and Risk 14. Tom W’s Specialty 15. Linda:
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