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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"industry experience"”.
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Do Academic Directors Promote Corporate Social Responsibility?
… across their academic specialization and experience. In particular, we note that academics with administrative responsibility, business background and industry experience have significant positive effect on firms’ CSR performance.
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System dynamics and process improvement : can the U.S. Navy acquisition community learn from industry behavior?
… planning tool for process improvement programs. Industry experience has contributed to a model that allows decision makers to simulate their actions and the resulting system response before committing to the actual policies. The resulting understanding of fundamental system behavior and …
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2004 gender study of the New Jersey Public Relations Society of America
… were distributed to research salary, title, industry, experience, etc.</p> <p>Although NJPRSA men and women have much in common, not everything is mutual. The average male is older and more experienced. Overall female dominance continues in the trade, including in two of the three …
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An investigation of experienced auditors' knowledge structures: A reaction time test
… the links between knowledge structures and experience. Consistent with the psychology literature, theories have been forwarded hypothesizing an association between overall audit experience and knowledge structure. This link is examined. Recently, however, some counter-arguments emphasizing …
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Introducing engineering and design to homeschooled middle and high school students
… local middle and high schools. Inspired by an industry experience and MIT resources, she developed a curriculum that incorporated interactive activities and culminated into a design challenge for these homeschooled students. She surveyed their interests in and perceptions of engineering and …
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District of innovation-hired career and technical education teachers : a study of preparation and effectiveness.
… can fill CTE teaching positions with industry experts (Crow, 2015; Walsh et al., 2018). These new educators—known as DOI Health Science CTE teachers in this research study—bypass teacher certification programs and are put in the position of becoming teachers and learners concurrently. …
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Encouraging professional skepticism in the industry specialization era: a dual-process model and an experimental test
… how the target of auditors’ skepticism and industry specialization jointly affect auditors’ judgments. When working inside their specialization, auditors make more automatic, intuitive judgments. Automaticity naturally manifests for industry specialists as a result of industry experience, …
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Investigating the feasibility and impact of integrating wire-arc additive manufacturing in aerospace tooling applications
… of WAAM techniques is hindered due to lack of industry experience and end-part quality precedent. For some tool makers, the feasibility of utilizing additively manufactured Invar components is still under investigation because key material characteristics of end-parts are not well understood. …
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Leveraging global operations innovation to create sustainable competitive advantage
… strategy. The thesis is based upon three core experiences the author had at American Axle to illustrate the importance of systems-based operations innovation. The literature review in conjunction with the internship experience is used to illustrate opportunities for American Axle to improve its …
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Early Experiences of Accountants Transitioning to Virginia Community College Faculty
… have much to offer because of their prior work experience. Accounting faculty members who have transitioned from industry generally have the knowledge and expertise to be successful in practice but their work experience may not have prepared them for teaching roles in community colleges. The …
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THE ENTREPRENEURIAL TEAM AND EARLY STAGE SUCCESS OF START-UPS
… such as entrepreneurial, senior management, industry experience and education background within the entrepreneurial team as well as the size of the entrepreneurial team on the early-stage survival and success of the ventures, this study found that previous experience is positively associated …
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Factors Influencing Career Choice Among Students Enrolled in a Four-Year Tourism Administration Program
The tourism industry is often viewed as an industry in which one would not want to be employed. This negative stigma is cause for concern when youth are beginning to make career decisions. The purpose of this study was to examine student perceptions of the tourism industry, factors that influence …
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A Comparison of the Career and Technical Education Programs in a US Community College and a Chinese Institution
… of the case study institutions differ, they have experienced the impacts of globalization and the current economic crisis, and both must address similar challenges in meeting the increasing demand for a globally competent workforce. The study‘s findings resulted in four primary recommendations …
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Incorporation of Corrosion Mechanisms into a State-dependent Probabilistic Risk Assessment
… role in determining plant risk, research and industry experience have shown that degradation mechanisms of passive SSCs increase in importance with extended operating lifetimes.The case study analyzed in this research involves an accident scenario, in which steam generator tubes degraded by …
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Reciprocating compressor lubrication – lubricant dilution with natural gas species and the impact on lubrication rates at various operating conditions
… compressors are ubiquitous in the natural gas industry as they provide much of the pressure necessary to move natural gas from the wellhead to the customer. Many of these compressors use lubricants to reduce friction and wear at the piston-cylinder interface. These lubricants have a difficult …
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Saudisation in the hospitality industry : management issues and opportunities
Late in the twentieth century, Saudi Arabia experienced its initial cohort of school leavers and graduates arriving into the private sector labour market. Until then, the country’s few educational resources meant that educated Saudis were absorbed into the public sector to establish administrative …
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Essays on boards of directors
… the implication of independent directors’ multi-industry experience (IDMIE) for firm value. I find that a higher degree of IDMIE is consistently and robustly related to a higher firm value. I further examine channels through which IDMIE can potentially affect firm value. I find that IDMIE has a …
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Costuming fictional working-class lives: Jimmy McGovern’s The Street (2006-2009, Granada Productions)
… and representations of workingclass lived experience, using British television industry practices involved in costuming fictional working-class lives as evidence. It specifically examines the costuming within Jimmy McGovern’s hybrid drama series The Street (2006-2009, Granada). Critical …
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Development and Implementation of IT-Enabled Business Processes: A Knowledge Structure View
… rate of these projects remains low despite much industry experience and extensive academic study. Managerial and organizational cognition represents a potentially fruitful lens for studying the design and implementation of IT-enabled business processes. This view assumes that individuals are …
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Creditor rights, entrepreneurship, and productivity
… are pronounced when key lenders have prior industry experience. Thus, refocusing operations and improving productive efficiency via resource reallocation are important channels through which enhanced creditor rights can facilitate the turnaround of firms in technical default.
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