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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Large business"”.
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Detroit Crime Trends: Examining Large Business Labor Practices
… examines the relationship between the changes in large company employment of the top twenty-five large businesses in Detroit and the crime rate from 2012 to 2014. Previous research has asserted that a significant correlation exists between unemployment and crime but does not investigate the …
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Flexible Distributed Business Process Management
Many large business processes are inherently distributed, spanning multiple organizations, administrative domains, and geographic locations. To support such applications, this thesis develops a flexible and distributed platform to develop, execute, and monitor business processes. The solutions …
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Succession events : an empirical study of succession and leadership effects on shareholders expectations of future earnings moderated by the context and content of the event
… around the announcement date. A sample of 156 large business organizations that had announced the succession event in the Wall Street Journal for the years 1986-1995 is used, and the compensation data are extracted from the yearly compensation scoreboard of the Business Week. The results show …
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Employee and Employer Perceptions of the Workplace-Personal Life Interface in the Midwest
… employee (micro level approach) perspective in a large business context. More recently a call for research using a contextual effects model which examines the interface between the workplace and personal life has been issued. There is also limited research in smaller businesses (fewer than 500 …
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Telecommunications service and expense management in US businesses : an analysis of the telecom supply chain and the impact of Internet tools
… on telecommunications services is the second largest non-production expense in most industries, the first position being taken by IT expenditure. Despite this, US businesses face several problems in managing telecommunications services and expenses due to the dynamic telecom environment, …
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Aviation Effects on Local Business: Mapping Community Impact and Policy Strategies for Noise Remediation
… to study the effects of aviation noise change on business activity. While it is widely recognized that aviation produces a variety of economic benefits and environmental disbenefits, the effects of noise on businesses sit at an understudied intersection of economic and environmental impact. Using …
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Developing a framework to improve SME participation in public procurement : an investigation into NHS Trusts in the North West of England
… as the government, public buyers, policy makers, large business and small businesses themselves, are needed to improve SME participation. Finally, the proposed framework has been tested (preliminarily) through a focus group discussion and found to be feasible and useful. Key words: Public …
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Bringing Down The House: Gambling, Speculation And The Making Of The Small Investor In Colonial India, 1867-1943
… undefined when commercial actors and native business communities became its major practitioners. Additionally, the project reveals the impact of extra-legal, normative discourses that transformed the once criminalized ‘petty gambler’ into the ‘useful’ ‘small investor’. While the histories of …
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Development Challenges for Chinese Private Manufacturing Firms in Globalisation
… industrial districts in the global economy, large business in global competition and global battles within China. Building on critical reviews on related literature, the dissertation tries to enrich the existing knowledge by investigating the latest development of China’s manufacturing …
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Business process architectures
Business Process Management has become an integral part of modern organizations in the private and public sector for improving their operations. In the course of Business Process Management efforts, companies and organizations assemble large process model repositories with many hundreds and …
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A contingency theory of diversification : the case of diversification into the Thai telecommunications industry
… decades, the trend towards diversification by large corporations in the advanced industrialised nations has been a transition from diversification to specialisation. However, there is little evidence of these same trends being duplicated in the emerging-market countries. Are large business …
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The decision making processes of small business owner-managers : an environmental focus
Large business is often the focus when environmental issues are discussed because their individual impact on the environment is viewed as larger than that of the smaller business. However due to the large size of the small business sector it has been recognised that reducing their collective impact …
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Metered energy consumption and analysis of energy conservation techniques in desktop PCs and workstations
… at six preliminary and one primary location, a large business office in Boston, Massachusetts. Metering there occurred over an 8 week period, using an in-line metering device, and at a resolution of one minute intervals. The results of this study show that many problems exist in the field today …
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The influence of organizational hierarchy and departmental structure on communication : the case of Kaplan and Norton's Balanced scorecard in a matrix organization
A large business requires efficient and effective internal communication among employees to achieve its goals. Dodds, Watts, and Sable (DWS) introduced a communication network model assessing information flow within a business by examining the relative influences of organizational structure, …
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Brokering strategic partnerships between Asian and western biopharmaceutical companies in the global biologics market : assessment of capabilities of Asian participants in the biologics contract manufacturing organization marketplace
… biotechnology medicines (or biologics). Recent large business deals that have seen Pfizer acquire Wyeth, Merck acquire Schering-Plough and Roche complete the acquisition of Genentech all have some element of positioning around the exploitation of biologics for future growth. These trends are …
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A conceptual model of performance for small motels: development and empirical testing
… firms encompass 97 percent of all private sector businesses. Of particular interest to this research is the tourism industry, which is currently experiencing substantial turbulence. The tourism industry, like many other service sectors, is comprised mainly of small firms. Despite difficult …