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Showing 1 to 20 of 501 for “"Management and Operations"”.
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The impact of information and communications technology change on the management and operations of academic libraries
… was to investigate the impact of information and communications technology change on the management and operations of academic libraries. How academic libraries deal with this phenomenon and strategies that could be considered to help deal with an environment where technology constantly …
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A Study Of Performance Based Budgeting Reforms In The National Park Service And Their Effects On Agency Management And Operations
<p>This is a case study of performance-based and budgeting reforms in National Park Service (NPS). The study examines the effects of reform initiatives on the agency’s administration, budgeting, and management. Previous research suggests that current reform initiatives are more effective than those …
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Consumer-Centric Innovation for Mobile Apps Empowered by Social Media Analytics
… can exchange comments online about products and services that businesses offer. The existing literature has demonstrated that online user-generated content can significantly influence consumer behavior and increase sales. However, its impact on organizational operations has been primarily …
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From data to knowledge: Tableau dashboards as boundary objects in the knowledge ecology of a university
… helping them exploit data as an asset and make informed decisions. Existing visualisation design research stemming from the cognitive and perception sciences has tended to focus on the cognitive augmenting benefits of information visualizations for the individual in trying to accomplish …
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Successes and Challenges in Implementing Food-insecurity Interventions: A Descriptive Case Study of Feeding America Food Banks in Kentucky
Food is a human right, and fighting food insecurity is fighting for food justice. Food insecurity remains a pressing global challenge despite efforts to secure adequate food resources. Feeding America fights rising food insecurity in the United States. It delivers various intervention programs …
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The professional is personal: an evaluative inquiry into the experience of setting up and managing a university counselling service
… service which the researcher set up in 1992 and still manages at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. The inquiry explores the experience of the researcher in relation to this role, and also the experiences of other heads of university counselling services. This inquiry was conducted …
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Africa’s National Development Banks: Lessons from Côte d’Ivoire and Rwanda
… governments, financial market participants, and non-financial firms in Africa. Despite rapidly increasing financial inclusion since the 2000s, Africa is the continent where enterprises struggle the most to access credit, particularly long-term loans, which NDBs specialise in offering. Though …
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Revenue management and learning in systems of reusable resources
Many problems in revenue management and operations management more generally can be framed as problems of resource allocation. This thesis focuses on developing policies and guarantees for resource allocation problems with reusable resources and on learning models for personalized resource …
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Enhancing Education Through Technology: Prinicpal Leadership For Technology Integration In Schools
<p>Principals need to acquire understanding of, and proficiency in, technology skills and integration to be effective instructional leaders. As issues concerning the lack of systemic change in school reform and technology integration persist, little research has been published concerning the extent …
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A conceptual framework for sharing knowledge and information between facility management/operations and building design teams
… quality suggests that accurate, relevant, and timely information is important at the earliest design phases to improve a designer’s ability to make well-informed design decisions. This thesis proposes that because of their active engagement with the built environment, facility managers …
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Ecotourism in theory and practice : a critical case study of Northern Thailand
… as currently practices in Northern Thailand conforms to international principles of ecotourism or contributes to sustainability. To achieve the objectives of the study, the methodologies adopted for data collection were: semi-structured interviews and focus groups with local residents and …
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Three Essays on Return Predictability and Decentralized Investment Management
… a focus on return predictability, innovation and market efficiency, and delegated investment management.</p><p>In Chapter 1, "Maximum Return Predictability", I develop two theoretical upper bounds on the R2 of the regression of stock returns on predictive variables. Empirically, I found that …
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Investigation and Identification of Key Characteristics of Successful Camps and Retreat Centers
<p>This thesis was designed to investigate and identify key characteristics of successful camps, outdoor centers, and retreat centers. The study utilized a survey of selected camps and centers within the United States, in the Spring of 1996. The results were analyzed individually and as a whole. …
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Essays on pricing of cardinality bundles
<p>This dissertation studies the pricing of cardinality bundles, where firms set prices that depend only on the size of the purchased bundle, a practice that is increasingly being adopted by industry. The first essay develops a fast combinatorial technique to obtain the optimal prices for …
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Entrepreneurship inside and out: Three essays exploring the interplay between hybrid entrepreneurs and their organizational employee roles
… of a new form of interrole dynamics: employee and entrepreneurial role interactions. Through three essays, I conceptually and empirically explore the effects of engaging in hybrid entrepreneurship on outcomes associated with employee and entrepreneurial roles. In Essay One I present a …
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An Examination Of Ceo Reputation Decline And Repair In Response To Deviant Actions
… in managerial reputation, little research in the management field has attempted to theorize and empirically examine reputation as a dynamic construct. This paper synthesizes prior reputation literature across disciplines to develop a model of reputation change. Using the context of executive …
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Drug Supply Chain Security Act of 2013 and It’s Computer System Implementation
<p>Since 1987, the federal government and state governments, have tried to combat counterfeit drugs from entering the United States and the states' pharmaceutical supply chain. The latest attempt to prevent counterfeit drugs from entering the state drug supply chain was the California E-Pedigree …
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