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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Industry Data"”.
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Korean institutional investors and real estate investments
… investors with academic literatures and industry data and (ii) comprehensive interviews with Korean institutional investors and their external partners. As a prior investigation, academic literatures show that despite drawbacks, investments in real estate have clear benefits for …
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Tectonics of the Georgia Basin, northwest Washington State, USA, and southwest British Columbia, Canada
… 1998 and 2002 experiments in conjunction with industry data to identify active geologic structures capable of accommodating this unaccounted strain. Here a new active northeast striking thrust system in southern Strait of Georgia is identified, the fault ruptured during the 1997 earthquake near …
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A Resource -Based View of Strategic Alliances: Organizational Capabilities, Governance, and Performance
Based on the U.S. steel industry data, the results are largely consistent with the general proposition. The results associate some firm resources with alliancing behavior and industry alliancing behavior with increased competitiveness in terms of increased profitability and labor productivity even …
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Human capital in the hospitality industry: Its components, role and importance in achieving corporate goals
… importance of human capital in the hospitality industry. Data were collected by interviewing 19 hospitality human resources professionals. The findings revealed three main components of human capital: service-oriented employees, empowered employees, and committed employees. Specifically, …
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An Empirical Evaluation of Property-Liability Insurance Financial Ratemaking Models
… from previous research that has used aggregate industry data. The models tested are the total target rate of return model, Fairley's insurance CAPM with tax extensions by Hill and Modigliani, Myers and Cohn's discounted cash flow model, and Doherty and Garven's option pricing model. The goal of …
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Exploratory data analysis for preemptive quality control
… industrial processes with abundant process data. This involves a 4 stage process which includes understanding the process, interpreting and linking the available process parameter and quality control data, developing an exploratory data toolset and presenting the findings in a visual and …
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Solving Single and Multiple Plant Sourcing Problems with a Multidimensional Knapsack Model
… using the methods for standard MKP test data sets in the literature, are presented and indicate that the heuristic performs well and improves with larger problems. The average gap between the heuristic solution and the optimal solution is 1.39% for 200-part problems and is reduced to …
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The effects of level of training on employee perceived empowerment, commitment and job performance
… resultant job performance within the hospitality industry. Data were collected from 158 Air Force employees working on one of two military bases in the areas of food service, lodging, recreation, fitness, linen exchange, and mortuary affairs. Specifically, this research focused on training …
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Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship for Regional Research: A New Approach
… American Industrial Classification System) industry data, represents an important contribution of this dissertation. By applying the innovative industries to single-unit employer establishment birth and self employment data, I create indicators that are available annually for all counties. …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Cyber Security Regulations
… and sensitivity of personal and professional data stored and shared online. As a result, there is a growing need for effective cyber security regulations to protect against data breaches and ensure the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information. The Health Insurance Portability and …
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Benchmarking environmental efficiency of garment factories to understand the value of real-time environmental data
… An increasingly prevalent focus of the industry, driven both by regulation and consumer preferences, is to measure, benchmark, and reduce the overall environmental impact of the supply chain. Currently the measurement mechanisms in place rely on a traditional two-phase approach involving …
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Establishing a Commercialization Model for Innovative Products in the Residential Construction Industry
… factor in the future health of the construction industry. There is universal interest in successful commercialization of innovative construction products. This thesis focuses on the US construction industry's ability to successfully commercialize innovative products. US small, limited-resource …
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Wage Growth and Worker Observability
… />I regress a Mincerian wage equation using data from the March 2009 Supplement of the Consumer Population Survey merged with additional industry data gathered from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The coefficient of worker experience interacted with various measures of worker observability is …
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Determining the Viability of a Hybrid Experiential and Distance Learning Educational Model for Water Treatment Plant Operators in Kentucky
… proximity. Using a variety of demographic and industry data, a geographic analysis of Kentucky was conducted to assess the viability of the traditional classroom delivery model versus a hybrid experiential and distance learning educational model (HEDLEM). Although this analysis indicates that …
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The influence of higher education on the national innovation system in Portugal
… the amount of collaboration between academia and industry in Portugal. Prior studies of locational effects have concluded that universities have a positive effect on the innovation output of the regions in which they are located. However, there is little understanding of how this locational effect …
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An exploratory study of human resource management and business strategy in multiunit restaurant firms
… to the acute management shortage problem in the industry. Data are collected from 14 publicly-traded multiunit restaurant firms. A case study approach is taken to provide an in-depth examination of each firm. Primary data are derived via interviews and structured mailed questionnaires. …
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Computer usage in the construction industry and construction education
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A make vs buy truck logistics decision for grain companies
… many different challenges operating in a mature industry with a rich history in agriculture. The purpose of this thesis project is to examine a solution for a grain companies operating in a geographical region with considerable competition. By focusing on differentiation in level of services …
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