Regardless of point-of-view, the events surrounding Disney’s America theme-park provide compelling lessons to policy makers, business interests and citizen activist groups. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Disney’s America controversy through the lens of public policy process. I first analyze the core issues of the case. Second, I identify predominant actors and stakeholders. Third, I point out policy instruments and processes germane to the case. Finally, I discuss the outcome and lessons
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INTRODUCTION In thinking about an ideal Total Quality Management (TQM) in a government organization of the 21st century, what follow is innovation, globalization, and a new culture that organizations need to adapt constantly to meet new market situations and competitive business world. "TQM refers to a management process and set of disciplines that are coordinated to ensure that the organization consistently meets and exceeds customer requirements. It allows organizations to survive the global
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Salmon Mommas Ten years ago, there was an old documentary named Glaciers -- Alaska’s Rivers of Ice which gave us a brief view of salmon. Salmon are a very famous anadromous migratory fish, which spawn in freshwater rivers, postpartum back in the ocean of fattening. The young fish will live in fresh water for 2 or 3 years, and then they swim into the sea, where staying a year or years until sexual maturity. After that, they return to the original birthplace to spawn. After ten years, now, just as
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Through LA21, local communities can participate to identify the local issues of sustainable development and finally develop appropriate action plans to address issues that arise. In Malaysia, the LA21 program was started in 2000 involving four local authorities as a pilot project and its now expand to other Local Authority. However, the implementations of LA21 in Malaysia are still at an unsatisfactory level (3)
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has been unsuccessful in transferring their successful products or ideas from their home country to foreign markets is Wal-mart. Wal-mart has failed to do this in many countries. For example, in Brazil and Germany, Wal-mart did not understand the local culture, and failed to transfer their products into these countries. In Brazil, there were many other discount stores in which food was available at cheaper prices. Wal-mart’s business model of selling low prices, having obsessive inventory control
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Currently, the problem with the Baltimore NEP is that the current policy of 1:1 needle exchange is restrictive for those individuals who may not have needles to begin with. In addition, the Baltimore NEP accepts neither broken needles nor needles that don’t come banded in sets of five. The current policy may be restrictive to some IDUs, and therefore it is possible that there is potential to still curb the incidence and prevalence of blood-borne pathogens if the current policy of 1:1 needle exchange
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internet plus books. By this the researcher asked people in the community in a systematic way were by she skipped every three houses before she could get into a question and answer situation. The researcher encountered people with an ignorant attitude who turned down such an interview and the major problem lies on the honesty of the person being interviewed as it is his or her own point of view. The researcher took into account most of the things which involved the survey from the articles of newspapers
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energy. The objective of the Act is to modernize competition regulation inorder to support the local market economy and consequently deepen consumers’ benefits. The Competition Authority is mandated to promote and safeguard competition in the national economy and to protect consumers from unfair market conduct. The Act applies to all persons including the Government, State Corporation and devolved government in so far as they engage in trade. The mandate is comprehensive and clear as Section 9 defines
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EJISDC (2004) 18, 1, 1-24 E – GOVERNMENT FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES Valentina (Dardha) Ndou Department of Business Administration University of Shkoder, Albania ndou@hotmail.com 1. INTRODUCTION The explosion of digital connectivity, the significant improvements in communication and information technologies and the enforced global competition are revolutionizing the way business is performed and the way organizations compete. A new, complex and rapidly changing economic
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integrated model to policy making, which consists of five phases that are very specific and progresses in a coherent manner and relate it to the policy being analysed. It will firstly, identify and explain these five phases namely, the policy needs, problems and context, the policy development and formulation, the policy decision and publication, the policy implementation and the policy monitoring and evaluation. It will secondly, explain the five protocols of policy implementation namely, Content, Context
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