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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Modern Economy"”.
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The impact and optimization of the urban industrial mix
… a relevant issue facing urban economies as the modern economy transitions from an industrial to a post-industrial service-based. The first essay estimates the changes and effects of density that result from relative variations in urban industrial composition. This essay demonstrates that …
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Changing paths : an historical ethnography of the traders of Tubetube
… research and proceeds from an analysis of modern economy. Prior to European intervention in the region, Tubetube people were sea-faring traders who were able to support a large population on imported goods. They were participants in the network of inter-island exchange called kune (kula) …
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Changing paths : an historical ethnography of the traders of Tubetube
… research and proceeds from an analysis of modern economy. Prior to European intervention in the region, Tubetube people were sea-faring traders who were able to support a large population on imported goods. They were participants in the network of inter-island exchange called kune (kula) …
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Examining the Blockchain: An Overview of the Past and Future of the Financial Field
… as the application of this innovation in the modern economy. By seeking out how the modern finance sector developed, as well as how crypto-currencies are the blockchains they are based on interface with it; the path of possible development can be best examined. With all this information, the …
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Telkom and the South African economy : achieving the optimal relationship
South Africa needs a modern, sophisticated telecommunications network to ensure economic development and political stability. The same network must also provide affordable and reliable service to a great percentage of the population. The telecommunications industry is currently monopolised by …
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The Limits of Analytics During Black Swan Events A Case Study of the Covid-19 Global Pandemic
… can increase by several hundred percent. The modern economy is built on such analytical models, which are intended to provide useful results during routine conditions. All models eventually fail to provide the expected level of fidelity under extreme conditions. This thesis investigates the …
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Consumer behavior changes across income levels : meat market analysis
… the most significant and powerful trends in the modern economy and expected to continue its trend in the future. So finding relationships between income growth and consumer behavior can offer a higher level of understanding of both the current and future demand. Three relationships are found in …
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THE ENTREPRENEURIAL TEAM AND EARLY STAGE SUCCESS OF START-UPS
… are increasingly critical components in modern economy, and new technology ventures play a key role in creating and leading it. In recent years, the number of new ventures and the amounts of resources invested in them has grown rapidly, further emphasizing their already high importance. …
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Clusters and cluster initiatives: The role of collaboration and social capital in building a system of innovation in Ireland.
… of clusters in two sectors of the Irish economy; the high-technology ICT/ software sector of the modern economy and the dairy sector of the traditional economy. The thesis contributes to the literature on clusters through the application of the 'cluster initiative' concept in an Irish …
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Thatcherism and the restoration of governability
… inability to manage the demands of a modern economy was leading to severe, if immeasurable, credibility and legitimation problems. To what extent have the Thatcher policies solved these seemingly intractable problems? Has Thatcherism found a solution to the demands of social democratic …
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How Should Information Technology be Regulated?
… (IT) playing a more central role in the modern economy, governments the world over are displaying an active interest in regulating IT firms with the goal to increase competition, foster local firms or increase social surplus. My research informs such policymakers in two critical and …
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Engineering Biological Materials for Carbon Capture and the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Light Hydrocarbons
Decarbonization of the global economy will require the identification of substitute carbon sources for the production of fuels, plastics, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and other products that are derived from fossil carbon. The gigaton scale of carbon dioxide emissions necessitates the development of …
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Web Manifestations of Knowledge-Based Innovation Systems in the UK
… is widely recognised as essential to the modern economy. The term knowledgebased innovation system has been used to refer to innovation systems which recognise the importance of an economy’s knowledge base and the efficient interactions between important actors from the different sectors …
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From Factories to Classrooms: The Influence of FDI-Led Industrialization on Educational and Vocational Training Infrastructure in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam
… ensuring a skilled and adaptable workforce for a modern economy.
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Is public space still possible? : lessons from City Hall Plaza ideas competition
… cannot be overlooked, especially in a modern economy. Therefore, it is ultimately concluded that the vitality of a city is best served when the immediacy of the Programmatic is appropriately housed in the permanence of the Morphological. To achieve this is to retain a vision of purposes …
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Managing nature, constructing the state: the material foundation of Soviet Empire in Tajikistan, 1917-1937
… where there was no physical legacy of modern economy. To build socialism here, the regime needed to import capital, people, and animals along with plans and ideals. This, in turn, required the establishment of transportation and commodity chains. These material implications of political …
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The Unintended Consequences of Implementing Information Technology: Understanding the Impact of Misalignment between Mental Models and Organizational Structure
… information technology is ubiquitous in the modern economy. I used three research protocols to study this phenomenon. The first approach was a literature review to explore and understand what was already written on the subject of implementing information technology. The second approach was an …
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Labor processes within a commodity system: a comparative study of workers in apple packing houses
… of articulation of farming systems with the modern economy, the type of ownership, the relation the owner had with the workers, and traditional undervaluing of women’s’ work expressed in wage differential according to gender and job segmentation. Explanations that propose an association …
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Aspects of the history of copper mining in Namaqualand
… emergence into one of the typical features of a modern economy. The fourth chapter is concerned with the question of leases. The reason for devoting special attention to this is that the final settlement of the lease questions involving the vesting of mineral rights to the mission ground in the …
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