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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Production Theory"”.
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Economic performance of architectural firms: an application of production theory
This dissertation explores the application of production theory to architectural firms. The basis of production theory, upon which all else depends and emerges from, is the production function. The production function is simultaneously a mathematical representation of the arrangements of inputs …
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Optimal pricing for peak loads and joint production : theory and applications to diverse conditions.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1978
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Custom Production, Theory and Practice: With Special Emphasis on the Goals and Pricing Procedures of the Contract Construction Industry
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Uno Studio Comparativo della Produzione Artistica tra l'Opera di Pechino e il Melodrama Italiano
… the “hall” of world music. The mode of artistic production can be defined as several dimensions of artistic production and formation under the “theory of artistic production”, which the author summarizes in the process of compilation into three major perspectives: experience, technology and …
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Exploit the Land, Exploit the People: The Treadmill of Production and Community Advocates for Farmworkers in Texas
… is framed by Schnaiberg's (1980) treadmill of production theory, using semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 16 community advocates for farmworkers in Texas. The results of these interviews demonstrate that community advocates face factors limiting their resistance to the treadmill, …
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Accountability of Corporate Management: Analysing the Fiduciary Duty in Corporate Law
… primacy is relegated in favour of team production theory. This thesis dispels the theory that the business judgment rule can protect directors who do not consider the interests of multiple stakeholders, which has been argued to be a shield to protect shareholder primacy in Canada. …
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Nemo's Plight: Political Economy, Green-Cultural Criminology, and Fish Abuse
… strengthens the political economic "treadmill of production" theory (see Lynch et al., 2013) by incorporating an analysis of the "cultural grease" that ensures the treadmill’s smooth operation. Choosing fish as a subject matter, though, requires challenging the "thoroughgoing speciesism" (Beirne, …
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Innovation's Impact on County-Level Population Health
… important policy implications toward health production and provide a path forward for continued research into health production theory as well as the use of empirical methods to be used to evaluate economic policy and its benefit to population health. Given these results, county officials can …
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Metodi di ottimizzazione dei processi produttivi applicati al settore dei lapidei carbonatici
… proceeded to examine in detail the entire cycle production from extraction to the processing plant related to the case study. Working phases was collected following the logic of the classical production theory and has been iterated for several production cycles in order to ensure statistical …
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Empirical essays on open innovation
… from firms. This research expands social production theory to explicate the concept of community selection as a key mechanism that enables individuals to choose new product designs that are created via nonmarket innovation. Social production relies, in part, on the ability of products to …
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Interval and fuzzy optimization. Applications to data envelopment analysis
… any functional form. It is vastly applied to production theory in Economics and benchmarking in Operations Research. In conventional DEA models, the observed inputs and outputs possess precise and realvalued data. However, in the real world, some problems consider imprecise and integer data. …
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Writing for numbers: The Cultural Production of Good Writers in the Time of High Stakes Writing Assessments
… at the intersection of three fields: cultural production theory, New Literacy Studies and object relations theory. The study has two related strands. In the first, I perform a socio-historical analysis of the setting, Yankee City, and its schools from the Great Depression when James Conant …
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The Impact of Child Support Payments on the Educational Attainment of Children
… areas: human capital acquisition and household production theory. The study is based upon data from a mother/child extract of the 1984 March/April Match File of the Current Population Survey. Each mother was matched with her eldest child between the ages of 16 and 20. The sample consists of 4974 …
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Evaluating System Performance in a Complex and Dynamic Environment
… and a function of multiple interactions in production. However, in the efficiency literature, system performance is frequently evaluated considering linear combinations of the input/output variables, without explicitly taking into account the interactions and feedback mechanisms that explain …
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An econometric model of the petroleum industry
… designed to influence the pattern of future production and consumption by accounting for producer and consumer motivation.</p> <p>The purpose of this study, therefore, is to develop an econometric model of the petroleum industry in order to determine the output and pricing behavior of …