1 ) Consumer ethnocentrism and attitudes toward domestic and foreign products Literature review : The country of origin effect and consumer ethnocentrism The country of origin effect, also known as the ``made in'' concept, has been broadly defined as the positive or negative influence that a product's country of manufacture may have on consumers' decision processes or subsequent behaviour (Elliott and Cameron, 1994). Within the realm of consumer decision making, country of origin has been defined
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Mohammad Ali Jinnah University Islamabad Email: Husnain_ctn@yahoo.com Abstract Financial economists have continuously questioned the efficient market hypothesis especially in last decade. Major part of discussion is whether the equity markets are efficient and if not then up to what extent one can forecast the meaningful future movement of equity prices. On one side there are believers of random walk and contrary there are followers of chartist theories. Those who negate the random walk suggested that there
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COPYRIGHT: The magazine publisher is the copyright holder of this article and it is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited. To contact the publisher: http://www.jibs.net/ In this paper we examine foreign location choices of the top 100 US multinational corporations (MNCs) in 1980 and 2000. We first ask whether there has been a change in MNC foreign location choice in this two-decade period. Second, we explore the underlying reasons
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Chapter 3 Methodology This third chapter discussed the methods that the researcher has used in order to collate and evaluate the data in accordance to the goal of the study. Methodology is like a strategy or plan for achieving some goal; methods are the tactics that can be used to service the goals of the methodology. In essence, methodologies provide the blueprints that prescribe how the tools should be used. Considerably, the researcher used a structured questionnaire as the instrument of the
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& Dill, D. L. (1990). . The American Journal of Psychiatry, 147, 887-892.) hypothesis was that psychiatric patients who had been abused growing up would show greater dissociation symptoms than patients who had not been abused growing up. Earlier studies have suggested that a high rate of patients with dissociative issues have a history of adolescence physical or sexual abuse. The study portrayed in this paper was intended to figure out the commonness of dissociative side effects in the populace
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An Introduction to Statistics Keone Hon <keone.hon@gmail.com> Contents 1 Descriptive Statistics 2 1.1 Descriptive vs. Inferential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Means, Medians, and Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.4 Linear Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.5 Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation 10 (2001) 139 –156 A study of the relationship between corporate governance structures and the extent of voluntary disclosure Simon S.M. Ho*, Kar Shun Wong School of Accountancy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong Abstract The primary objective of this study is to test a theoretical framework relating four major corporate governance attributes with the extent of voluntary disclosure provided by listed firms
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Baggili & Rogers - Self-reported cyber crime: An analysis on the effects of anonymity and pre-employment integrity Copyright © 2009 International Journal of Cyber Criminology (IJCC) ISSN: 0974 – 2891 July - December 2009, Vol 3 (2): 550–565 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
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discharged within one hour. It was subsequently changed in 2004 when the government decided that 98% of all patients attending an A&E department should be in the department no longer than four hours (Department of Health 2004). And again in 2011 when the department of health introduced the clinical care indicators that relaxed the target to 95% seen, treated and discharged or admitted in 4 hours (Department of Health 2011). Triage nurses within the accident and emergency department are one of the first
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address this question and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each to yielding data that help you answer the question. Describe and discuss each design in 4-5 sentences. Week 2 This is a two part assignment that will be submitted within one document. Part I Part I checks your understanding of key concepts from Jackson and Trochim & Donnelly. Answer the following questions: 1. Jackson even-numbered Chapter exercises (pp. 220-221; 273-275) 2. What are degrees of
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