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Showing 1 to 20 of 154 for “"key actors"”.
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Uncovering key actors in the marketing-firm value link
… of this dissertation is to provide insights on key actors who affect the link between marketing and firm value. The first essay examines financial analysts who provide earnings estimates about firms, thereby connecting firm and the stock market. The author uncovers whether and how financial …
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Assessing shopping mall led urban restructuring in Lusaka: location factors and key actors.
The aim of the research was to examine the factors that determine the location of shopping malls and the resulting urban restructuring that has taken place in Lusaka. It was guided by three objectives; to evaluate the factors that determine the location of shopping malls; to identify the key actors …
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Analysis of Leather Value Chain in Tanzania: The Case of Mwanza City
… leather value chain, to determine performance of key actors within leather value chain, and to identify challenges facing key actors within leather value chain. Data for the study were collected from a sample of 211 respondents (key actors in leather value chain), using combination of data …
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The Environmental Management Accounting Control as a Practice
… (CM manufacture). The study focuses on the key actors: the department or division managers, factory plant managers, and relevant section heads. The important findings are that EMAC practice is an integrated practice governed by the understandings that combine the management accounting …
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An educational reform commission and institutional change: case study of the policies, politics, and processes of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
… developed from the confluence of new, supportive key actors, public opinion favorable to reform, and threats of Congressional intervention. The Commission's empowerment created a choice opportunity for long-involved stakeholders to reauthorize athletic governance reform. Prior to empowerment, key …
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The role of partnerships in addressing modern slavery in the UK event sector : a narrative approach
… as a step forward to address modern slavery by key actors from the public, private, and third sectors. The form partnerships could take, the roles and contribution of partners, or how they might identify and deliver shared goals and responsibilities, however, have thus far been underexplored …
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The consolidation of three small high schools into one medium-sized high school
… the following sources through: interviews with key actors of the consolidation process; surveys of students, teachers, and parents; and, public documents. Results of the study include: (1) Prior to consolidation some key actors favored and others opposed the consolidation. Their opinions did not …
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The Dynamics Of Compression On Presidential Nominations
… structure that underlies the decisions made by key actors. I utilize compression as a chief independent variable in three empirical analyses, assessing its impact over time to the key actors in a nomination campaign. Using data compiled from FEC candidate filling, I use a robust regression model …
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The Proliferation of Gated Communities in Ghana: A New Institutionalism Perspective
… of gated communities following experiences from key actors involved in the development process and residents who move into gated communities. Drawing upon new institutionalism and using a mixed research method, the research presents the case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area. It finds that …
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Building A Military Security Cooperation Regime in Northeast Asia: Feasibility and Design
… for two primary reasons: first, to determine why key actors in Northeast Asia have not yet developed regional security arrangements like Europe has demonstrated in the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the European Security and Defense …
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Good Governance and Conflict Transformation in Sri Lanka : A Political Analysis of People's Perceptions of Institutions at the Local Level and the Challenges of Decentralised Governance
… main research question, which is, “what are the key actors, issues and challenges at the local level that a context-specific good governance model needs to take into account in order to promote sustainable development and peaceful co-existence?” This research question is elaborated on the basis …
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Employee status and collectivism: a study of managerial and professional trade unionism
… approach. The research focuses on the roles of key actors (predominantly managerial and professional-grade members of the three unions) and analyses the scope of change to which they have been exposed, and how this has informed an inclination towards collectivism. This process discovered three …
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Pakistan’s Food Security from Wheat Value Chain Perspective
The research seeks to identify the key actors in the Pakistani Wheat Value Chain (PWVC), the key relations among them, how these are governed, and to what effects. To understand the PWVC, the study focuses on the functioning of the wheat economy and its complex set of relations between actors. The …
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The evolution and effect of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission's reports on Funding the standards of quality, part I and part 2 as seen through key actor interviews
… as viewed through the recollections of key actors involved in the policy making process. The key actor interview methodology provided the research basis for this qualitative study. Historic events were chronicled through a review of official documents, newspaper accounts, academic …
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Dismissed! School Board Governance: A Case Study of the Halifax Regional School Board
… influence of the press, examination of roles of key actors, and race as an issue in school board governance.</p>
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Factors that affected the 1986 report of the Commission on Excellence in Education
… were made by the Commission. Those key actors or decision makers and those key factors that were most influential in developing the thirty-six recommendations made by the Commission were to be identified. A third purpose of this study was to determine whether the impact of the …
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Role-related interests and perceptions of a teacher incentive program: case studies of three elementary schools
… would have a direct effect on the various actors' perceptions of the teacher evaluation plan. The model presented other factors that would tend to intervene between the actor's role-related interests and perceptions of the plan. These potential intervening variables were defined as: (1) …
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A Space of their Own? A feminist exploration of gendered spatial relations in Professional Women’s Organizations in Alberta's Resource Sector
… in-depth semistructured interviews with three key actors from one Alberta based group. The intended outcomes are to create evidence-based solutions, which in turn will help contribute to concrete solutions to better support professional female geoscientists in Alberta.
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URBAN CHOREOGRAPHIES BANGKOK'S CATALYSTS TRANSFORM NEIGHBOURHOODS
… these neighbourhoods’ changes, urban qualities, key actors and transformation strategies, this research combines quantitative and qualitative methods. The examination of the significant drivers of change, urban catalysts in the form of small institutions with community characteristics (families) …
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