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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Competitive success"”.
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An Investigation into Predictors of Competitive Success in a Large-Scale Group Foraging Task
… the individual delay discounting assessment, competitive index score, and proportion of trials switched significantly predicted performance.
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An experimental investigation of learning and performance in children with academic disabilities
… motivational variables characterized as "fear of success" or "need to fail" are crucial in the poor achievement of some children with academic difficulties. This study was designed as an experimental investigation of some consequences that seemed deducible from the inter-relationships among these …
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Collaborative enterprise governance : sustainable management of inter-firm R&D relationships in the German car industry
… relationships in order to achieve sustainable competitive success for the whole partnership as well as its individual members. An exploratory study in the German automotive industry using inductive Grounded Theory was conducted. This involved data collection via 28 semi-structured interviews …
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THE "FACT OF BLACKNESS" DOES NOT EXIST: AN EVOCATIVE CRITICISM OF RESISTANCE RHETORIC IN ACADEMIC POLICY DEBATE AND ITS (MIS)USE OF FRANTZ FANON'S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS
… by Reid-Brinkley have achieved increasing competitive success in spaces of policy debate, it remains to be seen these strategies can escape the suffocating reification brought about by our collective adherence to the inhuman voices of the past.
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Impact of nutrient heterogeneity on plant response and competition in Coastal plain species
… root foraging behavior and short-term competitive interactions were investigated for six species native to southeastern USA. Monoculture, two- and six-species garden plots were established and fertilized to create spatially homogeneous or heterogeneous nutrient conditions. After 3.5 …
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Conflicting goals in product development : learning from the fatal Firestone flaw
… of humanity. Yet, in spite of the proven success of empathetic design, we still see products that fail, amplify negative social behaviors, or take advantage of human tendencies for the sake of profit or competitive success. These outcomes are often the result of poor negotiation between …
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A situational analysis of Chinese managers’ personal value systems (PVS) and their influence on employee commitment
… their organisation’s prospects for sustainable competitive success. The research aim is to establish a relationship between managerial value systems, corporate culture, P-O fit and affective employee commitment. The research theory is based on an extensive and rigorous literature review. It was …
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Long range planning of manufacturing footprint
… a firm deploys can impact a firm's cost competitiveness if implemented incorrectly because of the large capital expenditures and time horizons involved. Boston Scientific, a medical device manufacturer, recognizes the importance of operations strategy in achieving competitive success and …
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Television sitcom production at the BBC 1973-1984: an integrated approach
… BBC's Light Entertainment Department under the successive leadership of Bill Cotton and James Gilbert. They espoused and developed attitudes of creative excellence, competitive success and benevolent patronage, and took a liberal, non-polemical, middle-brow approach to material. The thesis …
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IDENTIFYING THE INFLUENCE OF SELECTIVE EPISODES AND MECHANISMS ON REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM AND DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
… what makes some individuals more reproductively successful than others is a key pursuit in evolutionary biology. While reproductive success can ultimately be defined as the number of offspring produced over an individual’s lifetime, there are many selective episodes that shape this outcome. …
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Fight and flight: Behavioural drivers and evolutionary consequences of resource competition in birds
… for individual survival and reproductive success. These consequences of competition drive selection for traits that confer competitive advantages. While previous studies have quantified effects of fundamental behaviours on competition, research on more complex competitive behaviours has …
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Soil drying cycles in the succulent Karoo : different rooting systems and water uptake
… and plants that survive in the area require competitive water-use strategies suited to long periods of drought. Over the years much emphasis has been put on mechanisms that allow for the competitive success of water-use strategies, and root structure features as an important attribute. This …
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Black economic empowerment ventures in the south african wine industry: business models and key success factors
… to identify how they contribute to business success. The Osterwalder business model is utilised as a framework to investigate the business models of four BEE business ventures, namely Solms-Delta, Thokozani, M’Hudi and Seven Sisters. Secondly, the paper seeks to establish how ownership …
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The co-creation of athlete development: A conjoint analysis of parents' and coaches' preferences for effective athlete development
… and provide feedback to enhance skill and competitive success, while parents provide resources and support to enable opportunities for development and achievement. Each has the best interests of the athlete in mind, yet rarely do they work together effectively and intentionally to …
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Lean Implementation and the Role of Lean Accounting in the Transportation Equipment Manufacturing Industry
… quality, and innovation, resulting in more competitive success and profits. Although Lean has been applied throughout the industry with noted success, there have been some difficulties in demonstrating the financial benefits derived from Lean initiatives. Most of the evidence supporting a …
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Comparative study of international marketing strategy of Japanese and Taiwanese CNC machine tool industry in the ASEAN region
… of East Asian cultures that help explain the success stories of the Japanese and Taiwanese machine tool industry. --In Phase I of the empirical research, the author visited Japan and Taiwan for in depth interviews and administration of questionnaires with three Japanese producers (ie Okuma …
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Intellect-Based, Intagibles Sorces of German Small and Medium Sized enterprises-success- ¿The impact of inteññectual Capital on Lasting Competitive Business Performance
… a mean of generating and sustaining companies' success is increasingly important in today's knowledge-based economy. Previous research which look into large (listed) companies as well as small and medium sized enterprises (SME) generally confirm this. However, relatively little is known about …