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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Big business"”.
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Big business works with small farmers : the case of the Buabin Oil Palm Outgrower Project
… chain of Unilever Ghana, a multinational agribusiness company. In partnership with the public sector, the private sector and a development agency donor, Unilever Ghana is developing 3,000 hectares of oil palm through an outgrower scheme, in which the farmer beneficiaries maintain ownership of …
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The Strategic Management of Korean and Japanese Big Business Groups : A Comparison Study between Korean General Trading Companies and Japanese Sogo Shoshas
… of General Trading Companies), which are unique big business conglomerates but not well-known in Western countries. It investigates several of their features, such as their history, characteristics, major functions, strategic management, organisational structure, corporate culture, …
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The development of four hotel companies in the UK, 1979-2004
The evolution of big business in manufacturing and some service industries, together with the role played in this by merger and acquisition (M&A) activity has been thoroughly researched and is well documented. However, despite' the increasing economic and social importance of the UK hotel industry, …
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Healthcare Organizations And Succession Planning
… organizations have been shown to operate as big business, except for one area. Research has shown that healthcare organizations do not implement succession plans for leadership turnover, director level and above. There is a need for successful healthcare systems to implement a succession plan …
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Causes and consequences of American minimum wage legislation, 1911-1947
… law was an equilibrium outcome because big business, a powerful interest group, opposed effective legislation while voters favored the principal of legislation but did not monitor its effectiveness.
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Bridging the gap : the role of the private sector in track-two diplomacy and South Africa's political transition
… but the specific roles played by members of big business, both as participants and as third-party mediators.
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Managing the pulsating effect in major sport event organisations
Managing sporting events has become big business in the Australian sporting and events scene. The economic and social benefits to the community arising from these events can be significant. However, the special characteristics of these events can produce problems for the management of the human …
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Catastrophic Progress: A Queer Materialist Analysis of the 2023 Trans/Bud Light Controversy
… a glimpse into the growing conflict between big business and queer-allied consumers. From a materialist perspective, the Bud Light/Mulvaney controversy demonstrates how social media – a visual and primary domain of the trans community – has the mobilization potential to disrupt the …
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"Baseball as Community Identity: Cleveland, Ohio -- 1891-2012"
… negative realities of professional baseball as big business. Fans past and present have created a story of the stadium as a place of civic worship, the team members as familiar neighbors, and the game as an event where gender and race cease to divide. Fans have passed on their characterization …
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Social critique in the major novels of John Wyndham : civilization's secrets and nature's truths
… with a number of ideas. He attacks the power of Big Business, Government, and the Military, and what I would characterize as their "Cult of Secrecy". Wyndham also criticizes irrational faith in any ideology, particularly in nationalism, Scientism (or the power of science to solve humanity's …
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Oil and Politics in North Dakota
… this development as misguided, as an example of big business manipulating government. This thesis, on the other hand, contends that such arguments are predicated on prevailing, yet unhelpful standards, and offers an understanding of how ND's government operates in the real world through the use …
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Examining The Public-Private-Partnership Tourism Toolkit as a vehicle for socioeconomic beneficiation
… is to become a meaningful instrument for small business growth and economic transformation. Findings reveal that simplifying the Toolkit bidding process is not likely to broaden entry for small businesses as the due diligence elements embedded in it are necessary to restrict corruption and …
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Beyond the Glass: Examining Wine Tasting Room Profitability Using the 4Ps of the Marketing Mix
… opportunities. Direct wine sales are big business with $3.4 billion in sales in the United States in 2010. Research has shown that small and medium-sized wineries have become financially dependent on direct sales linked to wine tasting rooms with an average of 70 percent of winery …
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An Analysis of President Trump's Afghanistan Foreign Policy: Through the Theoretical Framework of Walter Russell Mead's Four Paradigms
… who believe in a strong relationship between big business and government for foreign policy success. The Wilsonians, who encourage the spread of democratic principles abroad. The Jeffersonians, who favor the protection of domestic liberal democracy over other foreign policy endeavors. Lastly, …
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Legal education in crisis: healing and humanizing Canadian law schools /
… system. Formalism, rationalism, elitism, and big business values have become paramount. In such a moment of historical crisis, there exists the opportunity to create a new legal education story. This paper is a conceptual study of both my own Canadian legal education and the general legal …
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Making it work : aspects of marriage, motherhood and money-earning among white South African women 1960-1990
… The media, women's organisations, the state, big business and white male workers were addressing, in different ways, the conflict between white wives entering paid employment and the necessity to protect traditional values whereby 'good' wives stayed at home. 1974-1984 saw large and increasing …
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Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70
… raj,’ an oligarchic coalition of big business, bureaucrats, and the dominant Congress Party. Chapter Four by contrast reconstructs the multiple positive visions of ‘free economy’ put forth by three key leaders of the Swatantra Party. It shows how the scales of community, region, …
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Modeling of Spaza shop operations using soft and hard operational research techniques
Globalization has transformed the world into a big village in which the rich are becoming richer and the poor getting poorer. In the commercial world the trend is for big business to buy out the smaller companies and consequently get bigger. Yet it is arguable that small businesses have assisted in …
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Athletics donors' preferences for an athletics director's leadership characteristics and behaviors
… intercollegiate athletics has become a big business with equally big expenses. Today’s intercollegiate athletics departments are feeling the state budget cuts, the strain to maximize donor support in order to balance the budget, and the challenge of chasing the ongoing goal of providing …
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Ethnography of Indian diaspora women watching Bollywood cinema in South Africa
… Bombay (Mumbai), known as Bollywood, is owned by big business men who are highly patriarchal in their mindset. Since Bollywood Cinema is owned predominantly by Indian men, it is not surprising that their patriarchal values are reflected in the movies sponsored by them. Hindi films have in many …
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