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The agreeableness leadership advantage
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Coalitions and Incumbency Advantage in Mexico
… in an election, and political parties can take advantage of this by forming coalitions, even with unlikely partners. This paper tries to answer whether such a coalition was indeed successful or not during the 2010 elections. In 2010, 14 Mexican states held elections. Each of them renewed state …
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Extended producer responsibility and comparative advantage
Extended producer responsibility is a business strategy whereby a firm assumes responsibility for the environmental impacts of a product throughout its entire lifecycle. By taking such responsibility, a firm realizes an incentive to design environmentally preferable products that are easier to …
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Sustainable competitive advantage through information technology
… difficulty of achieving sustainable competitive advantage through information technology. While information technology proliferates and innovations arise frequently, few companies have been able to use IT to remain leaders in their industries. Using a framework proposed by Michael Scott Morton, …
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An advantage model of risky choice
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1988.
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Happiness Advantage: The Impact on School Culture
… to analyze the implementation of the Happiness Advantage principles (Achor, 2011) to address the mental well-being for all school district employees. In addition to Happiness Advantage Training (Achor, 2011), the study seeks to determine if the implementation of positive psychology principles …
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The advantage for name -designated characters during reading
… there has been a lot of research documenting the advantages that name-designated characters have over title-designated characters, most of it has done so using very short texts. The experiments reported in this dissertation utilized longer passages of text to examine whether certain variables that …
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Batesian Mimicry: The Selective Advantage of Color Pattern
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Combining capabilities: A resource based model of ICT advantage
… is known about how ICT's may lead to competitive advantage. This thesis starts to inform this gap, by investigating how ICT's are combined with other organisational resources in the context of an exemplar organisation. The resource based view (RBV) is used as a framework to guide this study. The …
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The Hidden Advantage of Disaggregation in Substantive Analytical Procedures
Recent Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspections on substantive analytical procedures have found that auditors often over-rely on management explanations for significant fluctuations by failing to gather and evaluate corroborating evidence. This research attempts to find a …
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Transmitting Advantage: Maternal Education Differences in Parental Investment Activities
Though the stark advantages of children growing up in college-educated families are well documented (e.g. higher levels of school achievement, higher likelihood of completing high school, higher college admission rates), scholars are just beginning to understand how the everyday activities of …
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The Advantage of the Thromboaspiration in Acute Ischemic Stroke
급성 뇌졸중은 우리나라에서 사망원인 중 하나로 시간이 환자에게 발생하는 합병증을 줄일 수 있는 가장 중요한 중요인자이다. 우리는 뇌졸중 센터 개소 이후 2년 동안 경험했던 자료를 바탕으로 폐색된 혈관을 재개통하는 가장 좋은 방법이 무엇인지에 대해 찾으려 했다. 2008년 3월 1일부터 2010년 2월 28일까지 후향적 조사를 실시하였고 급성 허혈성 뇌졸중 환자에 대해 치료 및 결과에 대해 분석하였다. 기계적 혈전용해술 방법들 중에서 혈전흡입술을 첫 번째 방법으로 선택하여 치료하였을 때 NIHSS, mRS, 재개통율, 시술 후 …
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Assessing Comparative Advantage in Soybean Production: A Global Perspective
… responses in a world context, where comparative advantage changes and their impacts can be properly addressed. Econometric and mathematical programming methods are used here to construct a soybean global model based on the established trade theory. Results indicate that although Brazil does not …
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The playful advantage: how playfulness enhances coping with stress
This study investigated the interrelationship between playfulness in adults, perceived stress, and styles of coping. Research on playfulness has long centered on its connection to development in children, while the study of playfulness in adulthood has just recently commenced. Similarly, the …
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Robotics and high-tech : an advantage of Japanese contractors
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1986.
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Enterprise Architecting for Tacit Knowledge Transfer: Sustaining Competitive Advantage:
… it is the main source of a firm’s competitive advantage. Up to 90% of organization knowledge exists in tacit form and is embedded deep within the employee’s mind; it is intuitive, unarticulated, and cannot be codified into explicit form. The tacit nature of such knowledge prevents it from being …
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Leveraging global operations innovation to create sustainable competitive advantage
High fixed costs and the emergence of globalization have forced traditional domestic automotive mass producers to the brink of bankruptcy. This thesis focuses on the global growth strategy of a Tier 1 automotive supplier and examines causal relationships between that strategy and the system …
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Creating sustainable competitive advantage in the Norwegian defense industry
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.
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