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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Global Competition"”.
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The Evolution of Global Competition: The Creation of a Soft Power Escalatory Dilemma
… become much more important for security in a globalized world and raw capabilities have become less important, the security landscape has fundamentally changed. When looking at the modern competition between the United States and European Union against China, global infrastructure investment …
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Making policy for making selves in science and engineering: from Sputnik to global competition
… facing uncertain and ambiguous threats under global competition in the 1990's. After locating these national narratives, this dissertation traces the trajectories of cultural models of the nation into the struggles among different actors that over the past 40 years have defined NSF’s mission. …
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Global expansion strategies for software firms
The business competition in the software industry is increasingly becoming a global competition. In this era with a fast-paced innovative environment, strategy plays an important role for managers in software companies in defining its own globalization approach. This thesis discusses the …
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The interrelationships among job insecurity, locus of control, sense of coherence and organisational commitment of survivors of downsizing
… to organisational change. The effects of global competition, mergers, and the privatisation of public sector companies, among others, are forcing organisations in South Africa to resort to workforce reduction. The purpose of the present study was to address the lack of research on the …
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Making and Unmaking the Korean National Division: Separated Families in the Cold War and Post -Cold War Eras
… of ""national reconciliation"" and ""neoliberal global competition."" It examines how diverse separated family members are reinterpreting their histories and repositioning themselves at this contemporary historical juncture. By doing so, I highlight the social process of change from the …
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Antecedents to student-based brand equity: student brand loyalty and perceived quality in higher education
… and is worth $4 billion. With the increasing global competition of university degrees the ability of countries like Australia to continue to capture these benefits over tiie longer term is unclear. The aims of this thesis was first to enable manager's within non elite branded universities to …
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Treinamento e desenvolvimento (T&D): um estudo de caso na empresa All Clean localizada na cidade de João Pessoa - PB.
The impacto of global competition has caused companies to dedicate their time to people management strategies to differentiate themselves from their competitors. In a scenario where employee performance is a determinant fator of competitive advantage the strategies applied to people management are …
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A framework for global business strategy planning for the wireless telecommunication carrier
… with huge digital data over the air. In the global market, most countries have deregulation and encourage now free competition. Especially emerging market e.g. BRICS is rapidly growing and intensifying the global competition. Furthermore, it seems that the internet revolution forces the …
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Secure Network-Centric Application Access
… increasingly common. In the engineering sector, global competition will require corporations to create agile partnerships to use each other’s engineering resources in mutually profitable ways. The Internet offers a medium for accessing such resources in a globally networked environment. However, …
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Factors that promote corporate entrepreneurship within the First Rand Bank
… a business operates is not static. Intensifying global competition and rapid technological progress put pressure on business to change. Better quality and service are no longer enough to give a competitive advantage. This can be achieved by entrepreneurial organisations. Through corporate …
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The future direction of Japanese automotive suppliers
… the downturn in the domestic economy and intense global competition with European and American automakers, the Japanese automotive industry has been forced to undergo rapid changes in recent years. The changing environment of the Japanese automotive industry, including intense competition, …
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External kanban systems in automotive assembly
… rising customer expectations and increased global competition have forced automotive manufacturers around the world to significantly improve the efficiency of their production operations. One critical area of improvement has been in external logistics, logistics involving shipment of …
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An Application of Variable Selection Methods to Identify Influential Factors of ADHD Diagnosis in Children
In 2011, there was the ADHD-200 Global Competition in which several teams around the world competed to produce a model that best categorized children as having ADHD or not having ADHD based on phenotypic and neu- roimaging data for each child. These data were gathered at eight locations in the …
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Converting activities to processes for operational efficency improvement of a South African agricultural equipment manufacturer
… manufacturers face increasing pressures from global competition, in response they have resorted to manufacturing customised machinery in a bid to secure market share. This strategy, while successful, introduces a high degree of product variation and complexity - increasing strain on the …
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A study of staff satisfaction in two call centres
… to manage change effectively. In response to global competition, political and economic changes Telstra has downsized to ensure that it survives and achieves value for all stakeholders. This study investigated: • what interventions Telstra used at the time of and following downsizing • whether …
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Benchmarking and productivity analysis in South Africa's automotive industry
… its peers. This is partly a result of increasing global competition, structural shifts and changing demand. At the same time, the local industry remains constrained by a slowdown in economic growth, increasing labour costs and insufficient economies of scale. By analysing the role of policy in …
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State of Being
… A culture driven by consumerism responds to global competition for technology that races against the speed of light. Human misunderstanding is relegated to war, courts of law and bi-partisan politics. Adapting and assimilating life circumstances and experiences with a sensitivity to the …
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Developing a Framework for Brand Management Strategies for Online Learning at UAE Universities
… to align with dynamic learner preferences and global competition. Third, the research develops a comprehensive framework for universities in the UAE to enhance perceptions of online learning quality through brand management. Furthermore, the study contributes significantly to brand management …
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An examination of the post- second world war relative decline of UK manufacturing 1945-1975, viewed through the lens of the Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd
… industrial companies after it was exposed to global competition. While the charge, by Boston Consulting and others, that the directors sacrificed growth for short term profits was not proven, their failure to recognise the importance of motorcycle market share and their policy of segment …
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