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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Middleman"”.
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In Defense of the Middleman: Quality Failures in the Generic Pharmaceutical Market
This dissertation studies how intermediary buyers, such as wholesalers and retailers, discipline quality in the market for generic prescription drugs. Consumers are uniquely uninformed about quality in this market, since generic drugs are conventionally assumed to be interchangeable. As in many …
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TECHNOLOGIES, RISK AND BEHAVIOR IN REAL ESTATE
… affect the behaviour of agents who serve as the middleman in property transactions that realize the housing market dynamics from the bottom up. Third essay focuses on energy consumption and the behaviour of air-conditioner users.
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Essays In Two-Sided Markets With Intermediaries
… charge each side commission. A profit-maximizing middleman can help eliminate trading delays but limits trade executed that are not surplus maximizing. When the middleman competes with the buyers and sellers being matched through an exogenous search process, she matches buyer and seller pairs that …
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kraftLAB : reimagined courtyards for the future of Fes
… craft economy is largely centered around the middleman merchant, further distancing the artist from the tourist. This thesis explores spatial reimaginings of the Moroccan courtyard through a novel architectural program: the kraftLAB. Through this experimental crafting laboratory, the processes …
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Comparing Modern Day Acquisition Costs of Trafficked Individuals: Implications for Anti-Trafficking Measures
… of an initial trafficker that acts as a middleman for other traffickers. This individual acquires victims usually through low or no cost due to the vulnerability and economic need of these individuals, and then sells them for profit to another trafficker that then exploits the …
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Improving the flexibility of the desktop PC supply chain
… the "Dell Direct" model--eliminating the "middleman" retailers in the PC supply chain-and achieved the Number 1 market share in the PC market. In managing its supply chain, Dell also utilizes its direct model and owns strategic relationships with many of the contract manufacturers, most of …
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Does Intentions-based mCommerce business models provide for a unique and differentiated value proposition?
… collation and distribution of information. The middleman lives! An infomediary is able to bring together participants in the eEconomy by leveraging the power of the Internet to unite buyers and suppliers of information into a single, efficient virtual marketplace. Infomediaries are able to bring …
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Social structural and cultural determinants in the formation and operation of small enterprise in the UK, with particular reference to the economy of East London and its Asian communities
… early theories which stress the primacy of the 'middleman'. A fuller understanding is required if small ethnic businesses are to be supported and their potential contribution to the economy maximised. This study anticipates the existence of significant differences in patterns of business …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
… Interpreter of Maladies and Mukherjee's The Middleman and Other Stories to demonstrate how these stories resist this ethno-cultural pigeonholing. My analysis exposes how ethnic and multicultural identity politics supplant aesthetic criticism and transform ethno-cultural identity into an …
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Fair use and file sharing in research and education
… the commercial publisher being cut out as a “middleman”. Although future work to develop the details of this approach would be required, the thesis asserts this is a promising way towards ensuring access to copyright works in research and education thus benefiting society, whilst at the same …
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Innovative transportation solutions : Uber for Freight
… algorithm-based applications. By eliminating the middleman of a carrier or broker, these startups' value proposition is cost savings and increased efficiency gained through a frictionless interface. While process automation has its upsides, many industry veterans have questioned the potential …
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The economics of vertical coordination in the organic wheat supply chain
… that organic producers that “eliminate the middleman” and sell directly to processors cannot market as efficiently and effectively compared with producers that use a POF. The results of this thesis emphasize that increased coordination between producer and marketer through a POF can be …
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The performance of information systems implementation outcomes: the case of an enterprise system implementation in a South African University
… approach eliminates the idea of the metaphorical middleman (representations) in understanding reality. The performative perspective puts forward IS outcomes as relational consequences enacted by sociomaterial practices of an IS implementation actor-network. Research Question: This research …
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Enterprising Somali refugees in Cape Town: beyond informality, beyond the spaza shop
… be considered what Bonacich (1973) describes as “middleman minorities.” This argument builds on qualitative research in Cape Town with Somali refugees who own formal small businesses that employ between five and a hundred employees. I draw on their histories, examine the evolution of their …
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Supply Chain Relationships and Refurbishing in the Healthcare Supply Chain
… Manufacturer (OEM) and an HCO is interceded by a middleman, the Group Purchasing Organization (GPO). The analysis offers strong empirical evidence that this interceded relationship is positively affected by an OEM’s non-mediated power and that this relationship positively affects the …
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Pelaksanaan resi gudang dalam UU no. 9 Tahun 2006 perspektif rahn: Studi di gedung komoditi sistem resi gudang malangsuko, Kecamatan Tumpang, Kabupaten malang
… are expected to not sale their harvest to the middleman who gives low price. The farmers are able to assure of the warehouse receipt document and they can get loan from Institution of Bank Finances or non Bank according to obtained requirement by controlling the warehouse receipt document. This …
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The emergence of Mailu as a central place in the prehistory of coastal Papua
… relative centrality of sites; (3) the role of middleman in trade; (4) other cultural factors including warfare. This work describes the initial archaeological research to be under taken in this part of Papua New Guinea. It began as an exploratory study whose general interest lay in the pattern …
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The emergence of Mailu as a central place in the prehistory of coastal Papua
… relative centrality of sites; (3) the role of middleman in trade; (4) other cultural factors including warfare. This work describes the initial archaeological research to be under taken in this part of Papua New Guinea. It began as an exploratory study whose general interest lay in the pattern …
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WATER BUFFALO MILK CHAIN IN BANGLADESH
… samples, comprising farm bulk milk (n = 34), the middleman (n = 37), the milk collection center (n = 37), and milk products from shops (n = 35), were analyzed using real-time PCR to estimate the prevalence of seven important zoonotic pathogens: S. aureus, Escherichia (E.) coli, Shiga …