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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"environmental uncertainty"”.
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Effect of the Environment and Environmental Uncertainty on Ship Routes
… been providing more products that estimate the uncertainty in environmental forecasts. However, it is not known how much that uncertainty affects or should affect ship routing. This thesis explores the sensitivity and robustness of optimized ship routes generated by the Ship Track and Routing …
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Environmental uncertainty, entrepreneurial governance, and entrepreneurship activities: evidence from China, 2005 - 2019
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Task and environmental uncertainty and adoption of technological innovations by home builders
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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Environmental uncertainty, business strategy and financial performance: a study of the lodging industry
… investigate the relationship between perceived environmental uncertainty, business strategy, and financial performance in the lodging Industry. Using a contingency framework, this study investigated the match between strategy content and environmental uncertainty which, from previous research, …
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The roles of perceived environmental uncertainty, outcome desirability, and expertise in judgmental forecasting performance
… placed in them are affected by four factors: (1) environmental uncertainty, (2) outcome desirability, (3) expertise, and time horizon. Some studies have addressed the effects of one or two of these variables, but no study has investigated the way the four variables interact with one another. The …
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Strategizing in Response to Environmental Uncertainty in the Hospitality Industry: A Data-Analytical Approach
… crucial yet challenging, especially considering environmental uncertainties. Therefore, this dissertation investigates the effectiveness of different strategies in navigating market, competitive, and technological uncertainties, through a big-data analytical approach. It incorporates three …
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Communication strategy development in supplier-based environmental uncertainty: the mediating effects of transaction form and interpersonal exchange norms
… of distribution in conditions of both decision uncertainty and nontransferable asset investments. A theoretical model was developed based on Transaction Cost Analysis (Williamson 1976, 1985, 1986) and Social Exchange Theory (Kelley and Thibaut 1978). Additionally, several forms of interpersonal …
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An examination of the relationship between the buffering response of part-time and temporary workers and technology, perceived environmental uncertainty and size in two manufacturing industries
… seek to buffer their technical cores from the uncertainty of the environment. Secondary objectives included: to explore the relationship among core technology, perceived environmental uncertainty, size, and buffering; to provide descriptive statistics on the use of part-time and temporary …
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Strategic Management and Financial Performance in South Korean Apparel Retail Stores
… management strategies, (b) effects of perceived environmental uncertainty on their management strategies, (c) effects of stores' management strategies on their performance, and (d) market-orientation strategies the stores have implemented. Four hundred top managers of Korean apparel stores in …
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Strategic management accounting practices in Palestinian companies: application of contingency theory perspective
… this study gauged the impact of perceived environmental uncertainty (competitive intensity and market turbulence), business strategy (prospector /defender), organisational structure (formalisation and decentralisation), organisational size and organisational technology on SMA Usage. For the …
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The critical source of uncertainty and the dominant sentiments of marketing channel dyads: a bargaining simulation
… variables that influences the way in which uncertainty affects focal organizations is its critical source. This dissertation investigates the relationship between the critical source of perceived environmental uncertainty and the political processes of the channel dyad. Political processes …
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Entrepreneurial Resilience, Innovative Behavior and Firm-level Innovation in an Emerging Market
… more understanding of the specific passion and environmental uncertainty under which entrepreneurs' innovative behavior can effectively drive the success of firm innovation. This paper aims to fill a novel gap by examining the mediating effects of innovative behavior on the relationship between …
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Customer Induced Uncertainty and Its Impact on Organizational Design
How firms facing environmental uncertainty should organize their activities remains an important and challenging question for today's managers and organizational researchers. Proponents of contingency theory have argued that organizations must adjust their activities to fit the level of …
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Testing models of the adaptive evolution of consistent individual differences in behavior using sticklebacks
… models: competition, social interactions and environmental uncertainty. Therefore for my dissertation I tested whether these factors influence consistent individual differences as predicted by theory. Additionally, these models make several assumptions about the costs and benefits of different …
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Alignment in Supply Chains: Empirical Analysis of Strategic and Operational Decision Making in Supply Chain Operations
… considerations are studied: the nature of the uncertainty of the environment, the firm’s competitive strategy, and the alignment of interests among collaborating firms in a supply chain. This dissertation consists of three separate, yet related studies each addressing the aforementioned …
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Balanced scorecard implementation and financial effect from the perspective of the contingency theory : multiple-case study in Libya
… the role of two main contingent variables (environmental uncertainty and business strategy) in shaping BSC implementation and financial effect. The study adopts a case study research with data collected from three Libyan for-profit manufacturing companies (CRM, NIF, and ISC). A total of 63 …
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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CURRENT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PRACTICES AND THE CONTINGENT ASPECTS THAT HAVE PROMPTED SAUDI AND NON-SAUDI MANUFACTURING FIRMS TO ADOPT OR NOT ADOPT MODERN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS: THE CASE OF THE EASTERN PROVINCE OF SAUDI ARABIA
… to certain contingent aspects, such as perceived environmental uncertainty, competition, size and firm strategy, but not product range or number. The same statistical test has shown that there is a partial relationship between the extent of adoption of advanced management accounting practices, …
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Understanding community changes in ecological systems: a probabilistic and geometric perspective
… particularly in systems subject to constant environmental perturbations (e.g., natural, in vivo, and in situ environments). Consequently, a central goal of ecological research has been to understand the processes of coexistence, invasion, and assembly in open systems that underlie changes in …
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Following recipes with a cooking robot
… our new compliant control techniques to address environmental uncertainty. The system was first implemented as a static finite state machine, which was tested through 27 baking attempts, 16 of which successfully resulted in edible cookies. The system was then implemented as a dynamic state …
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LIVING ON THE EDGE
… reimagining how architecture can mediate between environmental uncertainty and cultural continuity.
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