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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"company managers"”.
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Brackish Groundwater Desalination: A Decision Support Tool
… provide water utility decision makers like city managers, water company managers, city council members, etc. with key questions to consider prior to choosing whether to embark on a brackish groundwater desalination program for their utility. The scholarly literature review indicated five areas of …
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The significance and recent trends of management letters within the Maltese economy
… interviews were conducted with four private company managers, four public company managers, and seven EAs. FINDINGS: The findings indicate that overall, the letter is perceived as a beneficial tool by both parties, whereby EAs use the letter as an opportunity to include any areas of weakness, …
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The mediating effect of reactions to multisource feedback on the relationship between feedback characteristics and managerial development activities
… and manager follow-up actions in a sample of 390 managers employed in a national home improvement company. Managers participated in a multisource feedback process in which self, boss, peer, and direct report performance ratings were collected, and target managers completed a follow-up survey 1- 5 …
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Best practices for university-industry collaboration
… interviews at 17 large technology companies with company managers and individuals having responsibility for the portfolio of industry sponsored projects at universities. A primary finding concerns the role of boundary agents in a company, i.e. individuals that facilitate knowledge transfer across …
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Price hedging and its value to gold producing companies
… gold price. This liquid market has afforded gold company managers an opportunity to hedge, or reduce, the risk arising from gold price movements. Typical price hedging instruments include forward sales contracts, futures contracts, options, and gold loans. The question addressed in this thesis is …
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
… in the 1990s, it traces the efforts of company managers to modernize the German shop floor, the ways in which the working class cooperated with, rejected, or negated such strategies, and how diverse political regimes---democratic, fascist, and communist---shaped both modernization drives …
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Organizing the hosts: flexible strategies of formalized and collaborative labor in Airbnb property management
… Using participant observation data from one such company operating in Prague, this dissertation demonstrates how company managers attempt to formalize Airbnb’s algorithmic assessments via company rules and managerial oversight, thus extending the scope of platform labor to include workers with no …
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The valuation and pricing of initial public offerings
… is an incredibly exciting and dynamic event in a company's life. The company and its management are transformed and will forever have to conduct their business differently. During the mid to late 1990s, many companies went public, creating multitudes of instant millionaires overnight, from company …
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The disclosure of outsourcing activities: a case of Saudi Arabian listed companies
… research methods were used: 50 interviews with company managers, accountants and auditors; and content analysis of 985 annual reports of all 175 companies listed on the Saudi stock market, the Tadawul, over the six-year period from 2011 to 2016 inclusive. This twin approach enabled the research …
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The contribution of Maamba colliers limited towards corporate social responsibility in education in Sinazongwe district of Zambia
… comprised of the Chief Executive Officer, the Company Managers, 2 Human Resource Managers, 150 Employees, 10 employees on Focus Group Discussions. Others are 10 local people and 1 traditional Chief. The study used purposive sampling (non-probability) sampling to ensure an inclusion of relevant …
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Insights into organisational capabilities that influence innovation and organisational competitiveness in SMEs (small and medium enterprises).
… organisational structure and culture and a company's relationships with stakeholders in making an SME company innovative and competitively sustainable.The influence of the role of leadership, the influence of organisational culture on performance and their relationships and collaborations …
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THE LOCATION AND RESTRUCTURING OF THE UK DEFENCE INDUSTRY: THE CASE OF THE SOUTH WEST
… and telephone interviews with defence company managers. The survey results give rise to a number of important conclusions. Firstly, the defence sector remains less competitive than civilian manufacturing even though the majority of defence firms have significant levels of non-defence …
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Strategic change and the coevolution of industry-university relationships : evidence from the forest products industry
… strategies, and linking those strategies to each company's university relationships as judged by publications records, academic trajectories of the company's personnel, and interviews with company managers. We found that firms are likely to form new university relationships when (1) integrating …
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Building Character and Producing Door -to -Door Salespersons
"This study of a door-to-door sales company is concerned with unobtrusive control---the control of workers by attempting to set their cognitive premises. Since its salespersons work alone and are independent contractors, the Enterprise Company is limited in its use of direct and bureaucratic …
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Local official and polluter accountability in China's environmental inspections
… that aim to alter the behavior of polluting company managers and local environmental bureaucrats. In this thesis, I evaluate China's "new" hybrid approach, environmental inspections, that combines top-down scrutiny with bottom-up reporting. First, I investigate the dynamic responses of …
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An empirical investigation of the dividend decision in Irish companies
… examines how the Irish stock market reacts to company announcements about dividends. Prior to this study, the attitude of company executives and investors to dividend policy in Ireland was not reported in the academic literature in a systematic fashion. A number of small studies on the topic …
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Beyond Short-Termism: Effective Regulatory and Financial Industry Reform for Sustainable Long-Term Investment in Publicly Listed Companies
… may result in serious real-world consequences. Company executives appear to respond to short-term pressures in ways that jeopardize the long-term sustainability of listed companies negatively impacting investors and other stakeholders including employees, customers and the community at large. …
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ΣΥΜΒΑΣΕΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΩΝΥΜΗΣ ΕΤΑΙΡΙΑΣ ΜΕ ΤΑ ΜΕΛΗ ΤΗΣ ΔΙΟΙΚΗΣΕΩΣ ΤΗΣ
… MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, GENERAL MANAGERS OR MANAGERS OF THE COMPANY, TO THEIR FAMILY RELATIONS UP TO THIRD DEGREE GENERATION BY BLOOD OR BY MARRIAGE OR TO THEIRSPOUSES ARE ABSOLUTELY PROHIBITED AND THE CONTRACT IN RESPECT OF SUCH A TRANSACTION IS NULL AND VOID. THE SAME ABSOLUTE …