February 16, 2000 ALCOHOL Philip J. Cook and Michael J. Moore Duke University and NBER Prepared for the Handbook of Health Economics, Joseph P. Newhouse and Anthony Culyer, editors. Thanks to Michael Grossman, Will Manning, and Harri Sintonen for their very helpful comments. All errors remain the authors’. Abstract Excess drinking is associated with lost productivity, accidents, disability, early death, crime, neglect of family responsibilities, and personality deterioration. These and
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2011-06-25 School of Economics and Management Lund University Department of Business Administration The Use of Management Control Systems in the Hospitality Industry Supervisor: Per-Magnus Andersson Authors: Richard G. Sicari Fredrik J. Söderlund i Abstract Title: Seminar Date: Course: Authors: Advisor: Key Words: The Use of Management Control Systems in the Hospitality Industry 2011-06-01 BUSP02: Master Thesis in Accounting and Management Control Richard G. Sicari and Fredrik J. Söderlund Per-Magnus
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OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: KINETIC AND POSITIONAL By: Ma, Hao; Business Horizons, Jan/Feb2000, Vol. 43 Issue 1, p53, 12p, 1 diagram Competitive advantage is considered the basis for superior company performance. To perform at such a level consistently, a firm often has to nurture an evolving system of competitive advantages to carry it through competition and over time. What are the various possible types of such advantages? How can a firm systematically analyze the multiple advantages it could
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Tijdschrift voor Econoniie e n M a n a g e m e n t Vol. XLI, 4, 1996 A Review of Brand-Loyalty Measures in Marketing by M. MELLENS", M. G. DEIh;ircs. iriight ;-',ISbe easier 2 to zhoose the right decision unit (condition d). They are usualiy based on surveys, and it may be possible to get data from the decision maker rather than the puxchaser by asking questions 410 the righe individual, Finakiy, they give insight into the rnoiivations for the corrsr~mer's cinoice behaviur, and these mativations
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MICHAEL BEER ELIZABETH COLLINS Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant: Motivating in Good Times and Bad There had been several rough quarters at the Engstrom Auto Mirror plant in Richmond, Indiana, a privately owned business that manufactured mirrors for trucks and automobiles and employed 209 people. For more than a year, plant manager Ron Bent and his assistant, Joe Haley, had focused their Friday meetings on the troubling numbers, but the tenor of their May 14, 2007, meeting was different. Both men
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0953-4814.htm Leadership style and entrepreneurial change The Centurion operation at Philips Electronics Luchien Karsten University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Leadership style 73 Sjoerd Keulen University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ronald Kroeze Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Rik Peters University of Groningen, Groningen,
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0953-4814.htm Leadership style and entrepreneurial change The Centurion operation at Philips Electronics Leadership style 73 Luchien Karsten University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Sjoerd Keulen University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ronald Kroeze Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Rik Peters University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Abstract
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1 Student NAME: Habad Khan Rdi Student no: STU14791 University Registration no: 0811866967624 Enrolment Date: July 2009 Master of Business Administration: MBA University Of Wales. Date: January 2013 Dissertation Title: Change Management in the Police: A Study of Police Control Rooms. Word Count 20600 words ( excluding, Contents page, Declaration and Statements, Diagrams, References and Appendices.) 2 Declaration & Statements This dissertation is a product of my own work
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Human Resource Management Review 23 (2013) 105–113 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Human Resource Management Review journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/humres Human resource information systems: Information security concerns for organizations Humayun Zafar ⁎ Department of Information Systems, Kennesaw State University, 1000 Chastain Road, MD 1101, Kennesaw, GA 30144, United States. a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Human resource information system Information
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considered one of the main reasons for inefficiencies in supply chain. Since then reducing the Bullwhip Effect in a supply chain became one of the main goals in the supply chain management (Göpfert, 2004, p. 33). By reducing the Bullwhip Effect companies can generate numerous competitive advantages, for example increasing the delivery reliability by 15%, decreasing the overhead costs by 20%, shorten the order fulfillment time by 55% and
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