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Showing 1 to 20 of 207 for “"sponsor"”.
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The project sponsor : a critical success factor
All pioneering work needs extraordinary sponsorship from a powerful, motivating, visionary and experienced sponsor, in order for a project to be successful. The project sponsor is known as a critical success factor of projects in the project management literature. It would be of great value for …
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Social graces: the Natchez Garden Club as a literacy sponsor
… ways informal institutions can become literacy sponsors for young people and community members.
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The sponsor strikes back: Interacting with a budget-maximizing bureau
… explores, through mathematical models of bureau-sponsor interaction, the possibility for the sponsor to get a better deal from the bureau. The major conclusion is that a bureau's sponsor can extract greater surplus from the bureau by understating its demand for the bureau's service. The sponsor …
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Determinants of commitment in the professional football club/shirt sponsor dyad
The recent growth in sponsorship expenditure has been marked with football being a major recipient, particularly through shirt sponsorship programmes. The relationship between football club and shirt sponsor is an important one for both parties leading them to routinely profess their commitment to …
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Variations of the project sponsor role and benefits realisation: A phenomenographic study
The Project Sponsor role and Benefits Realisation have become a focus for organisations and project management practitioners as the need to understand factors that are potentially impacting on the success or failure of projects is gaining momentum. The question of who or what is responsible for the …
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The role of the project sponsor and their impact on IT project success
… research is to identify the roles of the project sponsor that impacts information technology (IT) project success. Recent emphasis has been placed on the importance of top management support, more specifically, on the individual that typically provides the direction and funding, the project …
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Health claims and consumer skepticism: The influencing effects of information type, sponsor reputation, and information channel
This dissertation research examines consumer skepticism and the possible mitigating effect of credibility on consumers' behavior in the marketplace. Of particular interest to this research is the interaction between the credibility of a set of information and consumers' skepticism toward a health …
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Leadership Orientations of Designated Institutional officials At Institutions That Sponsor Graduate Medical Education Programs and Institutional Effectiveness
… officials (DIOs) at institutions that sponsor graduate medical education programs. This study contributed to the literature by introducing research on leadership characteristics and effectiveness of DIOs. The study's findings can be used to guide further research as well as to influence …
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A case study of training sponsor perceptions regarding the coordination phase of secondary cooperative-plan distributive education programs in Roanoke City and County, Virginia
… problem of this study was to identify training sponsor perceptions regarding the coordination phase of secondary cooperative-plan distributive education. Specifically, training sponsors from four United States Office of Education codes and classifications for secondary cooperative-plan …
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Fighting for control : state-sponsored terrorism as foreign policy in Cuba and Libya, 1959-2010
… I ask four inter-related questions about state-sponsored terrorism. First, under what conditions do states choose to support foreign terrorist groups? Second, when do sponsor states stop supporting terrorism? Third, how can states which are the targets of terrorism best persuade sponsor states …
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An investigation into the residual effects of a change in sponsorship of a sports event on consumer perceptions of, and attitudes towards the original sponsor and the event itself
Thesis (Masters in Marketing), Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2007.
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Effective client management: maximizing the influence of external sponsors over affiliated armed groups
… go on to form the nucleus of a new regime. As sponsor-affiliate relationships progress over time, objectives and ideology can diverge, leading to problems with, or even termination of, the relationship. This study examines the sponsor-affiliate relationship from the sponsor's perspective, …
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African American Female Political Behavior in the Georgia General Assembly: Policy, Position, & Power
… by measuring the types of bills they introduce/sponsor compared to their White female counterparts during three regular legislative sessions between 2017 and 2022. This research seeks to provide evidence for the Sustainable Justice by Experience Theory (SJET) which espouses that African American …
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Executing major projects through Contractors
… engaged in these significant endeavors, project sponsor and contractor alike, risk both capital and reputation in the market-place with each new project. Delivering projects effectively provides all the firms involved with desirable financial outcomes and market advantage. This thesis sets out to …
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Corporate sponsorships at NCAA division I-A independent colleges
… used methods were in obtaining corporate sponsors for athletic departments. A questionnaire was sent to all NCAA division Iâ A independent colleges (N = 24) in the United States. Twenty-one athletic departments returned the questionnaire for a response rate of 88%. The questionnaire …
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Employee Health and Fitness Programs Within Educational Settings: An Examination of Job Satisfaction and Intent to Stay
… details about such a program, reasons for sponsoring or not sponsoring such a program and whether or not incentives are linked to such a program. Descriptive statistics and correlations were computed to test several hypotheses.</p> <p>In general, employees in districts and school sites that …
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Pernikahan tanpa wali: Studi komparatif putusan Dewan Hisbah Persatuan Islam Bandung dan bahtsul masa'il Nahdhatul Ulama Malang
… yang dimiliki masing-masing. ENGLISH: Sponsor in nuptials lionized, because concerning elementary matter in course of nuptials, as process early growth of human life, From other side as his valid condition of nuptials, sponsor also can become good barometer do not him process nuptials …
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The effect of exposure, involvement and sponsorship types on spectator recognition and attitude
… research was to examine the effects of sport sponsorships on consumer recognition and attitudes toward the sponsor. This study explored the differences in recognition and attitude among four types of tournament sponsorships (exposition, multi-level, sky box and dummy sponsors). In addition, …
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Modeling government ERP acquisition methods using system dynamics
… incentives between stakeholders especially sponsor organization and system integrator, failure to accommodate rework in the master project plan, choosing the right contract terms, lack of in-house technical expertise, control of sponsor over project execution were some of the aspects which …
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The Proxy Paradox: Explaining (Lack of) Control Over State-Sponsored Proxy Armed Groups
… and answers three puzzles about how states that sponsor non-state armed groups abroad (proxies) control them. The central puzzle of state-proxy relations asks: why would a proxy defy the directives of its state sponsor and risk losing support? The second puzzle is that state sponsors do not …
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