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Showing 1 to 20 of 431 for “"Incumbent"”.
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Relations Between Job Analysis Questionnaire Responses and Incumbent Characteristics
… information from a representative sample of incumbents. Unfortunately, research has been scarce and inconclusive in determining whether rater race and tenure is associated with job analysis task ratings. In this study a job analysis questionnaire was developed and administered to incumbents. …
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Primary User Obfuscation in an Incumbent Informed Spectrum Access System
… In order to enable spectrum sharing between incumbent/primary and secondary users, incumbents must have spectrum protection and privacy from malicious new entrants. In this Spectrum Access System (SAS) advancement, Primary Users (PUs) are obfuscated with the efforts of the SAS and the …
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THREAT RECOGNITION IN INCUMBENT FIRMS: A CASE FOR ORGANIZATIONAL VELOCITY
… is becoming increasingly dynamic and uncertain. Incumbent firms face a wider variety of threats that vary in frequency of occurrence and financial impact. How effectively firms see these threats, internalize them as important (or not) and act on them in a timely manner (or not) can be critical to …
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Understanding the Attitudes of Incumbent Manufacturing Workers toward Training Opportunities
… manufacturing jobs, and providing training to incumbent workers have been proposed and implemented over the years; however, some workers are not taking advantage of these training opportunities. To explore the question of why these workers are not taking advantage of training opportunities? We …
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Enabling CBRS experimentation and ML-based Incumbent Detection using OpenSAS
… sensing capability along with intelligent incumbent detection using Software-defined Radios (SDRs) and a real-time graphical user interface. This extended version is called the OpenSAS. Furthermore, the SAS client and OpenSAS are extended to be compliant with the Wireless Innovation Forum …
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Techniques for general modelling of innovation strategies in entrant-incumbent scenarios
… to innovation games in the traditional 'incumbent-entrant' scenario, but in the absence of the usual restrictive patenting assumption. The analysis of this framework is achieved by justifying an axiomatic definition of the pay-offs to players in various games and then using a computer …
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Changing capital markets industry structures : the Internet challenge to incumbent leaders
… impact of "disruptive technologies" on leading incumbent firms in various industries. In many ways the phenomena of the Internet and the World Wide Web threaten to become the most disruptive technology to many industries in many decades, and perhaps much longer. This thesis examines one such …
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Using Incumbent Channel Occupancy Prediction to Minimize Secondary License Grant Revocations
… a frequency band by the SAS on the arrival of an incumbent user. In this thesis, we propose a way to optimize the evacuation process by reducing the number of secondary spectrum grant revocations to be performed. The proposed work leverages knowledge of incumbent user spectrum occupancy pattern …
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Corruption, information, and reelection chances of incumbent parties' presidential candidates in developing countries
… which are perceived to be highly corrupt, incumbents still do get reelected. Chad, for example, is ranked the third most corrupt country in Africa according to the 2010 Transparency International Report, and yet in 2011 presidential elections the incumbent was reelected. A possible …
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Interrater Agreement of Incumbent Job Specification Importance Ratings: Rater, Occupation, and Item Effects
… hypotheses were tested using ratings from 38,041 incumbents in 61 diverse occupations in the Federal government. Consistent with Hypothesis 1, agreement failed to reach acceptable levels in nearly every case, whether measured with the awg or various forms of the rwg agreement indices. However, …
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Solving Incumbent Banks' Predicament Business Model Innovation Achieving Future Market Relevance in Financing German SMEs
Incumbent banks have gotten into a predicament. Increasing regulation, an oppressive macroeconomic environment and nondigital, and cost-intensive processes force financial institutions strategically to withdraw their offers on the German market of smaller and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). The …
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The Relationship Between an Incumbent Governor's Popularity and State Legislative Election Outcomes: A Contemporary Assessment of the Coattails Phenomenon
The thesis explores the relationship between an incumbent governor's popularity and state legislative election outcomes in the contemporary era. The study employs data collected from 49 states over a 16-year period (1988 - 2003). Existing archival election and economic data were compiled, compared …
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Business model transformation influenced by Germany's Energiewende. A comparative case study analysis of business model innovation in start-up and incumbent firms
… of business model innovation (BMI) by incumbent power utility and clean-tech start-up firms influenced by the German Energiewende. It emphasises the factors that impact BMI from a managers’ perspective, examines success factors for managers to overcome BMI challenges, and addresses …
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Disruptiver Wandel der Automobilindustrie durch autonome Fahrsysteme - Reaktionsstrategien für etablierte Automobilhersteller
This thesis investigates response strategies of incumbent automotive companies are facing a disruptive change initiated by autonomous driving systems. Autonomous vehicles promise to bring great benefits to society, a promising business opportunity for mobility providers, but at the same time facing …
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Established Firms’ Strategic Decision Making when Faced with Low-End Disruptive Innovation
How should incumbent firms respond to emerging disruptive business model innovations (i.e., substantive changes in the way the value is created and appropriated) in their industries? Despite much discussion, the current literature provides no clear-cut answer. This lack of theoretical understanding …
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AVERSIVE RACISM AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY: CONTEXT-DEPENDENT DECISIONS AND PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CONSERVATIVES AND LIBERALS
… performance of a European- or African-American incumbent law associate in a positive or mediocre performance condition and then provided performance ratings of the incumbent associate. Participants also evaluated a moderately-qualified African-American's hireability. Racism group, incumbent …
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