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Showing 1 to 20 of 137 for “"Business activities"”.
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Organization types and their business activities on the Internet
… There are potentially vast opportunities for business. Organizations doing business have been growing dramatically since 1995. The trend keeps going fast. The thesis surveyed directly on the Internet over a period of 3 months on a fortnightly basis, which started from 2/12/1996, and ended on …
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Business activities, competitive advantages, ownership types of the textile and apparel industries in China
… life cycle. Firms seem to be shifting their business bases from manufacturing to retailing, designing, and marketing, while emphasizing more on general operational, organizational knowledge, and learning resources than physical and financial resources. Firms with foreign-ownership or foreign …
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Mobile Phone Adoption in Rural Ghana: Understanding How Technologies and Platforms Influence Farming Business Activities
… areas and cities. They are also used to support business activities, manage family relationships, and provide instructions and educational material for high school children. The technology is particularly important in rural Africa because many of these areas lack telecommunication landlines and …
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Balancing Migration: Overcoming the challenge to SaaS provisioning for core business activities: A South African case study
… makes vast amounts of ICT resources available to business organisations, resources that can improve business processes and allow business organisations to leverage ICT in ways that were previously impossible. The correct implementation, adoption and usage of ICT within a business organisation can …
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User information need, information seeking behaviour and information service provision in the context of citizenship and business activities.
… provision in the context of citizenship and business activities. The research undertaken by the candidate has progressed over the past five years in its theoretical underpinning and the quality and critical thoughtfulness of its design. A necessarily selective review of the publications of …
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Analysis of the impacts of Internet-based business activities on the container shipping industry : the system dynamics modeling approach with the framework of technological evolution
The internet-based business (e-business) activities have become a new technological challenge to the container shipping industry (CSI) in recent years. Despite the growing importance of e-business in the CSI, little systematic and theoretical research on e-business has been undertaken so far. This …
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Prototyping the GUISET Architecture using the NoNgoma online stores
… However, these fall short in exposing the business, compared to those using electronic business (e-business) technologies. E-business can provide significant benefits such as cost savings, quick execution of business transactions, market for SMMEs collaboration and promoting globalisation …
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The impacts of bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on bank behaviour
… This is because merged banks focus more on other business activities than traditional intermediary activities. As non-interest income increases in relation to interest income, banks can diversify their business activities and can reduce their non-interest costs. As a result, they can be exposed to …
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Building a Carbon Allocation Methodology across Multiple Business Teams and Activities with Interdependencies
… having a standardized method to hold internal business teams accountable for their carbon emission, and empowering individual teams to decarbonize. Especially for large companies with multiple business teams and functions that have interdependencies, allocation of carbon emissions coming from …
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Industry Platforms: Case Studies to Measure Platform Capabilities for US Unicorns
… is a difficult problem given the complexities of business organizations and how these activities interact with each other in non-linear ways. This thesis attempts to address this by proposing a systems thinking, case-based approach to evaluate the key business activities of a firm with potential …
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Elementary accounting principles and bookkeeping methods
Property is Necessary for Business Operations. ”Men are engaged in business activities for the purpose of earning a livelihood. The first essential for the conduct of business operations is the possession of property. Property are things owned. Ownership is a right to things owned. A thing has …
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Segmental reporting disclosures in South Africa : requirements versus needs
… in financial statements between different business activities and different geographical areas) is mandatory for certain companies in South Africa in terms of the disclosure requirements of AC 115. Such requirements are similar to those contained in other international accounting statements …
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The Relationship Between Government and Private Companies in the Industrial Development of South Korea: A Study of Korean Way of Development
… primarily by active government intervention in business activities through planning its economic direction, selecting strategic industries, and allocating and distributing capital. Thus in order to understand Korean industrial development, the dominant governmental role is very important.
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Matching events and activities
Nowadays, business processes are increasingly supported by IT services that produce massive amounts of event data during process execution. Aiming at a better process understanding and improvement, this event data can be used to analyze processes using process mining techniques. Process models can …
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Students' attitudes toward unions and employment rights issues: a preliminary investigation
… toward unions. However, personal experience with activities such as drug use was found to be inversely related to attitude toward an employer’s right to engage in activities such as drug or polygraph testing. Furthermore, work experience was found to be negatively related to attitude toward an …
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Building a model of national shipping centre
… chain to conduct shipping and trade-related activities. Users of national shipping centres include traders, logistics service providers, shipping lines, terminal operators, and other actors. Shipping is the business of transporting goods to facilitate trade. Shipping and trade are closely …
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The development of uniform international accounting: an enquiry into the problems, progress and prospects
… a rapidly growing internationalization of business activities. Because the accounting standards and practices of different countries have developed in response to diverse environments, accounting has developed with strong national accents. Consequently, an enterprise with investments in …
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Essays on the economic and financial challenges facing South Africa's commodity sector
… between three distinct spheres – political, business and labor. The first article explores the governance dimension, by examining the extent to which PGM resources revenues have been used to advance economic growth and development. The second article takes an organizational economics …
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Operationalizing demand forecasts in the warehouse
Demand planning affects the subsequent business activities including distribution center operational planning and management. Today's competitive environment requires distribution centers to rapidly respond to changes in the quantity and nature of demand. For the distribution center, accurate …
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The strategic choice between "standardization" and "differentiation" in R&D
… differentiation, looking them as drivers of R&D activities in a company pursuing technical competence. The thesis suggests advantages and disadvantages of each strategy and analyzes circumstances that affect strategic differences. The first part of the thesis establishes the fact that the …
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