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Showing 1 to 20 of 270 for “"Management Studies"”.
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Improving the economic evaluation of flood risk management studies
… improving the economic evaluation of flood risk management (FRM) studies. The most common types of FRM infrastructure in the United States (U.S.) are dams and levees. The FRM infrastructure in the U.S. is aging with a large number of dams and levees now more than 50 years old and in need of …
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In Core Fuel Management Studies of Large Fast Reactors
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:26:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7219938.pdf: 3339213 bytes, checksum: aaf2806d617fa53402a2c3513b799462 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Pest Management Studies of Early Season and Stalk-Boring Insects on Corn in Virginia
Separate field studies were started in fall 2005, which continued through fall 2007, to investigate the effect of different levels of European corn borer tunneling on yield in corn grown for grain and to predict spring infestation levels of early season soil insects, specifically white grubs …
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Soil Management Studies of the Claypan Soils of Southern Illinois With Emphasis on Drainage and Aeration
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T20:17:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6104343.pdf: 6227061 bytes, checksum: f28a8251de3be673665ebcf4398bea76 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1961
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Numerical Simulation of Natural Convection in Rectangular Enclosures of Varying Aspect Ratios and its Feasibility in Environmental Impact Management Studies
… play a vital role in environmental impact management studies. This study simulated horizontal enclosures heated from below (configuration 1) and vertical enclosures heated from the side (configuration 2) with a variety of different aspect ratios (AR) and Rayleigh numbers (Ra). Each aspect …
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The road to development is paved with good intentions : inter-organizational dysfunction in the UN development system
The ability of multiple organizations to effectively collaborate in pursuit of shared goals is important across many fields, but perhaps nowhere more so than in sustainable development. Advancing sustainable development requires addressing numerous highly interconnected issues across multiple …
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Moral accountability in the MBA : a Kantian response to a public problem
… herein is especially evident inside postgraduate management education. I argue that nascent ideas of moral accountability foreground a systemic and inescapable challenge to the legitimacy of the now ubiquitous Masters of Business Administration (MBA) within university based management education. …
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Management Education in Chile : From Politics of Pragmatism to (Im)Possibilities of Resistance.
… to theoretical debates built around Critical Management Studies, Critical Management Education, Latin American Critical Thinking and Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's Political Theory. By reflecting upon the practice of Management Education in Chile as a case study, this research tries to …
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In pursuit of a better legal theory of the company: A data-driven, co-evolutionary and multiple equilibria model
… perspectives, namely those of law, economics and management, and on qualitative-empirical evidence. The aim is to evaluate the shareholder primacy model which underlies the current orthodoxy in Anglo-American company law. The thesis argues that, in line with generally accepted definitions of …
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Assessing Final Year Secretaryship and Management Students academic writing proficiency in Ghanaian Technical Universities
… students’ academic success in university studies. It is, therefore, expected by lecturers that final-year university students demonstrate adequate writing competences but unfortunately, in Ghana and beyond, many final-year university students are unable to exhibit high levels of competence …
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Transforming habitus? : experiences of mature students in a higher education institution
… group of mature students enrolled at a school of management studies within a higher education institution. The study focuses on the reasons these mature adults returned to study, the strategies they employed to cope with the academic demands and related expectations during their year of study, and …
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A pragmatic approach to multi-objective optimisation for portfolio asset management
Among the reliability engineering and asset management problems addressed in the literature, those pertaining to multi-unit systems have particularly intrigued researchers because of their profound effects on the organisational performance. Despite impressive strides made in improving maintenance …
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Corporate social responsibility with special reference to a life assurance society
… and represents an effort to treat it as a management issue in the context of a large insurance society. Today we live in a world of increasing complexity, growth and change. Attempts to gain a greater understanding and insight into the functioning of our world have led to the development of …
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Interviewer effects in quantitative surveys using a door-to-door approach
Interviewers are a principal source of error in quantitative surveys. While surveys are often self-administered (e.g. in online surveys), it is often required to administer these face-to- face. This is the case, for example, in census surveys in low-income areas where there is little internet …
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Anticipated work-family conflict among STEM students: the role of core self-evaluations and parental role modelling
The present study examined the role of core self-evaluations and parental role modelling on STEM students anticipated work-family conflict. Anticipated work-family conflict is the conflict students anticipate experiencing between their work and family roles in the future. Core self-evaluations is …
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A critical evaluation of the contribution of psychographic measures as descriptor variables in the profiling of market segments for a specific industry
… were widely employed in market segmentation studies in the seventies. Psychographics were said to offer marketers quantitative research that resulted in rich descriptive profiles of target segments. The present use of psychographics in segmentation studies has however become a controversial …
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Creating viable black economic empowerment initiatives on the primary producer level in the South African wine industry
… How does one increase the leadership and management capabilities of individuals within empowerment projects on the primary producer level in the South African Wine Industry?
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Analysing generational transfer of brand loyalty in the dishwashing liquid product category, in the Western Cape Province
… of brand loyalty is well-researched, qualitative studies pertaining specifically to generational transfer of brand loyalty in a South African fast-moving consumer goods context are few and far between. This study used the dishwashing liquid product category in the Western Cape Province of South …
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