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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Business, Management and Marketing"”.
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Video games and Moloch patterns: Monetization strategies within pay-to-play video games and their impact on long-term player retention
… Moloch patterns influence player satisfaction and long-term retention in video games. As a simplified definition, Moloch patterns in business appear when short term monetary gain is practiced at the potential expense of long-term sustainability. While extensive research has been conducted on …
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Enabling marketing and innovation capability in the digital economy.
The present study examines the impact of marketing capabilities through a network perspective on innovative capabilities and firm performance. The market orientation and the resource-based view that underpin marketing capabilities have mainly treated marketing as internal capability of the firm. As …
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The Extent and determinants of greenhouse gas reporting in the United Kingdom.
The study investigates the extent and determinants of greenhouse gas voluntary disclosures by FTSE350 United Kingdom (UK) listed companies from both theory and practitioners’ views. In accomplishing the aim, the study has the following objectives: (1) to analyse the extent of voluntary disclosure …
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SMEs and the internet drivers of and barriers to e-engagement.
For many years, the internet and its associated technologies have been heralded as the new frontier for SMEs and, inherently, “a good thing”. Despite this having been a common theme for at least the last fifteen years, still many SMEs are not “e-engaged. Despite significant amounts of public money …
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A Framework for knowledge-based diagnosis and improvement planning of business processes.
The aim of this project is the design and evaluation of a framework for knowledge based diagnosis and improvement planning of business processes. The outcome is a soundly based framework that can provide additional leverage within organisations. The study starts from identification of a research …
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Value co-creation between SME suppliers and large customers in the UK organic food sector.
… distinction in roles of production by suppliers and consumption by customers become blurred, concomitantly there is increasing interest to understand the process of how value is co-created through interaction in business relationships. In this connection and in the context of larger customers and …
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A Qualitative inquiry into the relationship marketing practice of UK insurance brokers.
… Existing theories in the relationship marketing domain do not provide an answer to these questions. This research aims to form a framework reflecting the nature of broker-client relationship as a development process with key components influencing the quality of relationship attached to …
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Key Performance indicator disclosures by large UK private and public listed companies.
… the degree of compliance by large UK private and public listed companies with the Companies Act 2006 section 417 (6) requirement to disclose KPIs in their annual reports. Specifically, the study investigates the extent of KPI disclosures by 410 UK companies comprising the largest 205 private …
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Leadership and motivation in hospitality
… jobs are often associated with low pay, long and anti-social hours, unstable and seasonal employment, low job status, a lack of career opportunities and poor levels of benefits. In the light of factors such as these, which are likely to militate against high levels of motivation - and …
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Exploring the concepts and practices of relationship marketing within Taiwanese banks.
Relationship marketing (RM) is a concept developed in the Western literature which came to prominence in the 1980s. Few studies have, however, considered RM is an Eastern context and in particular the connection RM has with guanxi, the personal relationship or connections found in Chinese based …
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Inter group relationships in organisational decision making - an ethnographical study.
… question: what are the main relationship drivers and influences at work during the process of inter group activity? The research examines the issues surrounding the inter group relationship. How are relationships between the groups formed and maintained and how do they impact the efficacy of the …
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Walking the tightrope: a case study of a consultancy.
… nature of consultancy, the client organization and interactions between consultant and client that can make the journey akin to a tightrope walk – sometimes smooth and relatively uneventful, though still requiring considerable skill, at other times fraught with hazards. The main research …
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Taxation paradigms: what is the East Anglian perception?.
… the population have reacted in significant and even violent ways. For example the Hearth Tax of 1662/ Window Tax of 1747 and the Poll tax of the 1990's have experienced public rejection of these levies. Additionally there has been a major growth in tax avoidance in the last 60 years. All of …
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The Relative information content of complementary and supplementary narrative commentary in UK interim reports.
… relative information content of complementary and supplementary narrative commentaries in UK interim reports. The study also examines the relative importance of complementary and supplementary narrative attributes. The subsidiary objective of the study is to investigate incremental information …
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Market organisation and the process of economic development: the case of the partially liberalised cocoa market in Ghana.
… years the link between market organisation and development has come under increased scrutiny in response to the implementation of World Bank liberalisation policies across many of sub-Saharan Africa's agriculture markets. Under the neoliberal teachings of the Washington Consensus, …
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Locating the mediator within workplace discourse: supporter of the status quo or humble "midwife" of dialogue? Developing an alternative workplace mediation practice.
… neutrality, mediators unwittingly contain and manage conflicts to meet overarching needs for organizational efficiency. A closer scrutiny of workplace mediation, both theoretical and practical, reveals mediators to be very influential in ways that are often obscure, being hidden within …
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Market share competition in the Chinese online game industry.
… investigates the impacts of pricing innovations and other non-pricing dimensions on the market share competition of dominant Chinese online game companies. The empirical context of my research is the strategic behaviour of online game operators (i.e. the companies who operate online games) in the …
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Perception of petroleum profits tax compliance in Nigeria.
… is determined by the knowledge, remuneration and incentives of government tax officials. This study sets out to investigate the extent of compliance of oil and gas (exploration and production) companies with the Petroleum Profits Tax Act and to confirm whether lack of sufficient knowledge of …
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Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in practice.
In my practice experience and exploration of literature, I discovered that there are limited examples and research about organisations that aim to change from a charity to a social enterprise. In addition to this, there are limited knowledge and understanding about what social enterprise and social …
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