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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"global versus local"”.
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Global versus local brands in South Africa: an empirical analysis of consumer perceptions
Global brands are increasingly expanding their footprint to developing countries, due to the promising opportunities that these countries hold; and as such, consumers are faced with the decision between global and local brands. In South Africa too, there has been an influx of global brands, which …
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Survive or Thrive: Focusing on the Forest (Global) or the Trees (Local) Impacts Meaning Making
<p>Focusing on the forest versus the trees illustrates a fundamental difference in how people see the world and make meaning, termed global and local attention. How we shift between them may impact whether we experience happiness or anxiety. We explored how different emotions serve as triggers for …
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Mood and Creativity: The Mediating Role of Attention
… completion. When differential requirements for global versus local attentional focus at the differing stages of creativity were taken into consideration, the influence of emotions become more straightforward; different attentional breadth requirements corresponded to differential stages of …
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Globally dispersed engineering teams at Delphi Packard Electric Systems
Globally dispersed engineering teams within Delphi Packard Electric Systems were studied to identify areas for future improvement in global team performance. The research consisted of several management interviews and the administering of a survey to global team members and team leaders at various …
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A qualitative analysis of figural memory performance in persons with epilepsy
This study examined nonverbal memory in patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) on a figural reproduction task, the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF). The Boston Qualitative Scoring System (BQSS) was used to examine whether qualitative features of ROCF performance could …
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Improved supplier selection and cost management for globalized automotive production
… freight risk is important in the context of the global versus local supplier discussion because it creates a major discrepancy when comparing the potential cost of each supplier. The thesis develops a model that provides an expected cost of air freight to measure air freight risk through the use …
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ANTROPOLOGIE DEI DIRITTI UMANI. PERCORSI AFRICANI.
… in avoiding the dichotomist models (universalism versus relativism, global versus local and so on) in favor of a representation in term of narrative encounters between different conceptions of human dignity, human beings, normative orders and social realities. To grasp this mutual and multilayered …