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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"causal linkages"”.
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Causal linkages between FDI, financial sector development, remittances, domestic savings and economic growth in South Africa
This report examines the causal linkages between FDI, financial sector development, savings, remittances and economic growth in South Africa using annual time series data from 1970 to 2010. The results show that none of the financial sector variables directly lead to economic growth. However, …
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Managers performance evaluation judgments and dynamic resource allocation decisions using the balanced scorecard framework
… making. Study Two examines the effect that causal linkages and delay information in a strategy map have on managers mental model accuracy and dynamic decision performance. The results from this computer simulation-based experiment show that presenting strategic objectives with causal …
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Patterns of Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe
… explanations by pattern matching within-case causal linkages, applied to the Soviet collectivisation campaign, the Hungarian Uprising and the Polish Solidarity movement.
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Impacts of job and organizational satisfaction, and organizational commitment on turnover intention in Thai public sector engineers
This study addresses the causal linkages between attitudinal determinants of employees' turnover. Using data from a survey of 408 public sector engineers working in sixteen organizations in Thailand, this study examines the relationships of job satisfaction, organizational satisfaction, and …
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The impact of infrastructure investment on economic growth in South Africa
… economic growth and private investment. The causality patterns found in this study suggest that growth tends to cause economic infrastructure investment. Conversely, no causal linkages were detected between growth and social infrastructure investment.
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The Effects of Environmental Stress on Financial Planning for Retirement
… The results supported the major hypothesis of causal linkages between measures of environmental stress, psychological strain and coping behaviors. The final Psychological Model of Retirement Financial Planning Behavior suggests several consequences for the development of employee assistance …
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Collaborative Interface Modeling of Fuel Wood Harvesting Practices: Residential NIPF Landowners of the Jefferson National Forest Wildland/Urban Interface, Montgomery County, Virginia
… sciences at the site scale. CIM reveals the causal linkages between land use decisions and their effects allowing landowners to more closely trace and investigate their management policies, behaviors, and feelings as well as the consequences of those behaviors. A demonstration of the CIM …
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The Mazmanian-Sabatier Implementation Framework Examined: an Application to Storm Water Policy
… of crucial data, informal influences, and causal linkages. The results indicate that while the Mazmanian-Sabatier framework retains value as an implementation framework, it does contain some assumptions that should be corrected.</p>
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SEX MAY SELL BUT GENDER IDENTITY PREDICTS: AN INVESTIGATION OF COLLEGE STUDENTS’ PROPENSITY TO JOIN ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUBS
… considering the field will further elucidate the causal linkages. Specifically, the influence of gender identity, personality characteristics related to gender, and perceptions of fit into entrepreneurship communities is investigated based on college students’ intent to engage in entrepreneurial …
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Three Essays on International Financial Market Linkages
… The second issue (Chapter 3) concerns the causal linkages between monetary and financial market returns of the New Member States (NMS) with the euro zone following the introduction of the euro. To measure monetary convergence we employ UIP deviations and stock market integration is proxied …
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Inflation and economic growth: a dynamic analysis of deficit finance
… taking into account the many significant causal linkages bearing on a final verdict concerning the thesis of forced saving.</p><p>Some of the equations that are not at the heart of the model are somewhat weak but these equations are included for the sake of "closing" the model. Hopefully, …
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The intractable refugee gap in the Nordics: can human rights make a difference?
… which calls for crafting remedies even when the causal linkages, the prima facie evidences, sound too remote from justiciability. This thesis approached the Gap using a novel method, by means of a multidisciplinary approach. It looked at the discrete events that cause and perpetuate the Gap, and …
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Lived scarcity, social attitudes and political behaviour in Kenya : evidence from Afrobarometer Round 5
In this thesis I examine the causal linkages between natural resource scarcity and violence. In contrast to previous research, I posit that scarcity is an inherently personal experience, and thus argue that the consequences of scarcity too, should be empirically tested at the individual level. The …
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The contribution of mobile telecommunication technology to sustainable development in selected countries in Africa
… strategies. Specific areas include examining causal linkages for mobile phone adoption, designing technology initiatives around sustainability goals, and drivers that facilitate technology transfer. Mobile telecommunication technology offers real opportunities for development and growth in …
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An investigation of organizational-professional conflict in management accounting
… which depicts hypothesized relationships as causal linkages was constructed and tested. The model was supported by the data: OPC explained 16 percent of the variance in turnover intent for non·CMAs, 23 percent for CMAS; and it explained 15 percent of the variance in job satisfaction for …
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Evaluation of a Logo computer curriculum for upper level elementary school students
… One of the purposes of this study was to test a causal model that attempted to identify factors related to upper elementary school students' attitudes and performance using the computer programming language Logo. Factors considered included student entry characteristics, attitudes toward the …
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Locating an Ottoman Port-City in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Izmir 1580-1780
… It rethinks the periodization and causal linkages between environment and fiscality by means of geography, and argues for understanding Izmir through a continuous monetary process that amplified commercial flows on a Eurasian scale. The first two chapters of this dissertation …
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The role of language in the process of creating meaning in a professional organisation
… i. e. processes on the basis of physical or causal contiguity, and metaphors, translation and interpretation processes were shown to render the experience of the organisation essentially symbolic. A third trope, irony, emerged as an important figure during the research process and was …
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Smart City and Related Implementation Challenges - Case Study: Kakinada and Kanpur
… multiple local urban development agencies, have causal linkages with other risks such as Resource and Partnership risks and Financial risks, which further delay project implementation; and 3) city officials and industry professionals implementing SC projects in Kakinada and Kanpur have a slightly …
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The balanced scorecard : structure and use in Canadian companies
This thesis develops a balanced scorecard model based on the attributes of Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard (1992, 1996, 2001). The model is then operationalized using a survey that is administered to CMAs (Certified Management Accountants) employed by for profit, Canadian companies with …
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