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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Horizontal integration"”.
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Horizontal integration under yardstick competition
Horizontal integration through mergers and cross-ownership is ubiquitous; industries regulated by yardstick competition are no exception in this regard. However, even though yardstick competition is applied to sectors of vital economic importance, such as energy and water networks, the welfare …
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Grid Computing in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: An Exploratory Study of Corporate Attitudes towards Economic and Security-Related Issues
… Although it proposes interesting features for horizontal integration of hardware and resource sharing, businesses slowly implement Intragrids in their companies. Open Grid markets are yet not deployed.
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Anatomy of a merger : an examination of factors influencing REIT consolidation
… stock. Strategic factors including vertical and horizontal integration, the desire to influence market rents, and increasing management talent were also noted. The risks of integrating two organizations and the legal and tax implications of REIT mergers were also investigated as to their …
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An Integrated Life-Cycle Information Framework for Construction Project Management
… of integrated information management: vertical integration for representing information at various detail levels, horizontal integration for allowing access to other relevant information with full context, and as-planned and as-built integration for monitoring construction progress information …
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Mixture Model Approaches to Integrative Analysis of Multi-Omics Data and Spatially Correlated Genomic Data
… genomic data from different platforms (vertical integration), or improve the power of a study through aggregating the same type of genomic data across studies (horizontal integration). In this dissertation, we propose statistical methods and strategies for integrative multi-omics data in …
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Performance Management System Reform : Results-Based Budgeting in the Government of Alberta (2012-2014)
… In Alberta, some of the outcomes of RBB include horizontal integration, strategic policy alignment, and cultural change. Alberta’s experience with RBB also supports the constructivist model of performance management, which suggests that these systems contribute to public sector organizations by …
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Promises and pitfalls of architectural strategy in the printer industry
… no longer afford to do everything themselves. Horizontal integration through outsourcing, or what Xerox calls extended enterprise, is therefore one source of competitive advantage. Platform strategy, parts reuse, and extended enterprise all make good sense but each of these strategies can …
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Reimagining planning of irrigated agriculture in the Indus River Basin, Punjab, Pakistan
… The historical analysis traces how the idea of 'integration' in irrigated agriculture has evolved in Pakistan's colonial history and within the province of Punjab after independence. It reveals that both the departments of irrigation and agriculture have highlighted the need for vertical and …
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Three Papers On Home Health Care Services In The United States
… satisfaction. Paper two shows how vertical and horizontal integration is present among home health care industry leaders, reflecting broader trends in medicine and healthcare. Paper three introduces a concept, emotional economies of scale, to describe how emotional labor on the part of managers …
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Memorial as field : problematizing Cape Town's post apartheid void
… city through the creation of mnemonic cues. Horizontal integration with the daily life of the district creates a pixelated memorial encoded and re-inscribed with spaces for memory, engagement, and storytelling.
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Essays on international trade and Bayesian forecasting
… theory that are constantly in debate: integration and cost function estimation. From the standpoint of theoretical integration models in international trade theory, the concept of foreign direct investment is studied in both a horizontal and vertical setting. With respect to horizontal …