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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Value framework"”.
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Partnering online : developing a value framework for e-tailers
This research aims to develop a framework within which to analyse and discuss the "e-tailing partnership" - a "horizontal" partnership model in which e-taiIers promote, sell and even bundle one another’s goods in a mutually beneficial partnership. At the core of the framework is the concept of …
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Comparing the risks of diverse methods of electricity generation using the J-value framework
This thesis presents and extends the J-value framework for assessing expenditure on risk mitigation, and then applies the method in a comparative risk assessment of UK electricity generating systems. The thesis is split into two volumes. The first volume contains part one, in which the J-value …
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The social media value framework: development and validation of a conceptual framework for social media engagement and value creation
… that their social media communications result in value creation? Engagement and the intent to engage are fundamental when considering return on investment. Post COVID-19, there has been a shift in the use of digital platforms and time spent on social media platforms. While multiple studies have …
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Understanding account management in professional services relationships. Conceptualising a value framework of account management from client and professional perspective in the audit, tax and management consultancy industry.
… research attention. This thesis concerns the value of account management in professional service relationships in the audit, tax and management consultancy industry, contextualising the nature and value of account management through client and professional perspectives. It addresses the …
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Relevanz soziokultureller Faktoren für die Strategieumsetzung in Familienunternehmen – eine empirische Untersuchung anhand von Conrad Electronic
… the relevance and impact of the Competing Values Framework and selected social cultural factors of Edgar Schein regarding the implementation of strategies in family owned businesses. The qualitative research project is conducted as an empirical case study. Guided interviews with senior …
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Applications for paper honeycomb technology
… by evaluating several marketing strategies in a value framework of create-capture-deliver.
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Corporate sustainability in China : a content analysis of corporate sustainability reports of SOEs and non-SOEs
… based on Hart and Milstein’s (2003) sustainable value framework. The results indicated that, incorporating philanthropic initiatives in general and strategic philanthropy in particular can broaden Hart and Milstein’s framework to account for the CS performance observed among Chinese MNCs. Second, …
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A framework for achieving lifecycle value in product development
Best lifecycle value is a concept rooted in value analysis, lifecycle consideration, and systems engineering which has evolved to support a holistic perspective of system development and program management. This thesis determines factors enabling consideration and achievement of lifecycle value by …
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Market Mechanisms for Service Provider Operations in Advanced Air Mobility
… internal operations. Next, we show a Shapley value profit-sharing mechanism to incentivize cooperation cooperation in efficiently routing flights between SPs. Finally, we extend the Shapley value framework to accommodate multiple SPs in the same region of airspace, and study how the …
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The Big X of Leadership: A Functional Approach to Understand Different Ways to Lead
… this thesis proposes a “Big X of Leadership” framework which offers a theory-guided lens to understand the influence of leadership for followers. This framework is developed and tested across two interrelated chapters. Chapter 2 begins with the well-used meta-categories of task-, relation-, …
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A comparative study of different evaluation techniques for appraising alternative transportation plans
… detail. Certain key aspects are discussed; the value framework that is used to assess plan performance, the principles of measurement used therein, and some procedural steps are put forward to guide the selection of appropriate criteria to indicate plan performance. The latter part of the thesis …
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Leader Perceptions of Campus Community Partnerships in a Community College Setting
… leaders' perceptions of forming CSPs and the value they generate. This study examined campus and community leaders' perceptions of CSP participation, specifically the formation process and the value created. Guided by the Collaborative Value Framework (Austin and Seitanidi, 2012a), I conducted …
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Reproductive decisions among couples with HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe: a descriptive qualitative study of a sample from Bulawayo
… the socio-cultural context which determines the value framework within which HIV positive couples live and make their decisions was explored as was the economic as well as the medical context. The study also examined the role of health professionals and the family on the reproductive decisions …
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Telephone apprehension : a study of individual differences in attitudes to, and usage of the telephone.
… of telephone apprehension within an expectancy-value framework, as the summed product of the evaluative components of beliefs about the negative affective outcomes of telephone use, and their associated outcome expectancies. In addition to apprehension, other variables should be incorporated in …
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Essays on the effective integration of risk management with operations management decisions
… operating decisions so as to improve the firm value creating more wealth for the shareholders. In the first essay, we focus on capacity flexibility as a means of operational hedging for risk management in an MTO production environment under demand uncertainty. We demonstrate that capacity …
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Changing values in heritage: shifts from the tangible to intangible in urban historic environments bo-kaap as case study
This study explores the emergence of changing values associated with heritage in postapartheid South Africa, expressed as a shift from tangible to intangible heritage values. Central to the study is an understanding of the evolutionary construction of changing values in a rooted heritage community …
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Negotiated collaboration : a study in flexible infrastructure design
… only improves quantifiable payoffs (Objective Value) but also enhances the actors' psycho-social outcomes (Subjective Value). Co-design is a process in which project actors simultaneously design technical and contractual features of a project. I developed a tradespace model to visualize and …
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Dharma and Difference in Dar es Salaam: the first Chinese Buddhist mission in Tanzania
… and compromises that result from a monist value framework coming into contact with a value plural context. Chapter 5 describes Tanhua Temple’s relationships with the Chinese diaspora, introducing the business people who acted as mediators between the temple and local actors throughout the …
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What About Short Run?
… of return and cash flow within a present value framework, by imposing the implications from a long-run risk model that allow for both time-varying volatility and volatility uncertainty. We provide new evidences that the expected return variation and the variance risk premium positively …
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Nondifferentiable Optimization of Lagrangian Dual Formulations for Linear Programs with Recovery of Primal Solutions
… strategy within the variable target value method (VTVM) of Sherali et al. (2000). This adaptation makes VA resemble a deflected subgradient scheme in contrast with the bundle type interpretation afforded by the modification of VA as proposed by Bahiense et al. (2002). Although VA was …