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VALUE CREATION, VALUE SENSING, VALUE DELIVERY, AND VALUE CAPTURING MECHANISM OF GREEN BUILDING: A VALUE NETWORK
… and barriers to green building development, uses value network analysis, cost–benefit analysis, and case study method for understanding value creation, value sensing, value delivery, and value capturing mechanism of green building to augment the knowledge of green building development for both …
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ComfortChoice : bringing value to the value chain
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2002.
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Value stream mapping and earned value management : two perspectives on value in product development
The concepts of value and value stream are crucial to the philosophy of Lean, and a better understanding of how these concepts relate to product development (PD) is essential for the creation of a Lean PD strategy. This thesis focuses on value by looking at PD processes through two different value …
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Value creation in the agri-food value chain
… product differentiation and the potential to add value to raw commodities (Goldsmith et al., 2002; Humphrey and Memedovic, 2006).Greater differentiation and value adding have in turn dramatically changed the price spread or marketing bill between the farm value of products and the retail value …
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Face Value
… is meant by taking something or someone at "face value" means to accept that idea, object, or person because of the way it first looks or seems, without thinking about what else it could mean, and to accept that the idea, object, or person is exactly what it appears to be.</p> <p>In the first …
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Value perceptions and value orientations in high school counseling
It was the purpose of this study (1) to discover if an interpretation of the principle of separation of church and state is an issue in public school counseling; (2) to discover the extent to which public school students bring moral or religious problems to guidance personnel; (3) to describe …
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Refining Value-at-Risk estimates: An Extreme Value Theory Approach
This thesis proposes new approaches to Value-at-Risk estimation using (1) Multivariate GARCH Dynamic Conditional Correlation volatility model with skewed Student’s-t distributions, (2) Bayesian GARCH model with Student’s-t distribution, and (3) Bayesian Markov-Switching GJR-GARCH model with skewed …
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Value creation and value capture of advanced electricity meter information
… aspect which is largely overlooked is the value creation through nonelectricity market related business models. These business models range from advertising over customer profiling up to insurance or juridical usage of data gathered from advanced meters. This paper summarizes the finding of …
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Analysis of value creation and value capture in microfluidics market
… decade have created a tremendous technological value which is shaping genomics; drug discovery; proteomics; and point-of-care diagnostics. The positive impact has resulted in faster analysis time, increased throughput and reduced cost amongst other important benefits. Yet, the life sciences …
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Fair value accounting
The thesis is devoted to fair value accounting. Fair value accounting implies that assets and liabilities get measured and reported in firm´s financial statements at their market value. The purpose of the thesis is to analyze the conceptual foundations of fair value accounting. The thesis is …
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Value-Gradient Learning
… presents an Adaptive Dynamic Programming method, Value-Gradient Learning, for solving a control optimisation problem, using a neural network to represent a critic function in a large continuous-valued state space. The algorithm developed, called VGL(λ), requires a learned differentiable model of …
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Boundary Value Distributions
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:50:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5900589.pdf: 2039499 bytes, checksum: d7c2ce1f1aea592559bec51c39c85818 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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Value drivers within SMEs: growth and value creation within the context of the Economic Value Added® framework
Value based performance measurement has become popular in modern day financial practices. Of the many value based measurements, the EVA® framework has gained much notoriety. It became the focus of much research because it has been widely implemented in many large organisations with professed …
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Global Value Network Transformations: Exploring interactions between value chains and organisations
… and further opened the black box of the global value network concept. However, it is relatively less known about the relationships and interactions of the two major systems- the supply chain systems and the organisational and administrative systems within MNCs, especially during their GVN …
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Work value as a moderator of the value congruence-employee attitude relationship
… identified the extent to which an individual values work as a potentially key component in the relationship between on-the-job experiences and employee attitudes. In a replication and extension of Amos and Weathington (2008), this study examined the moderating effects of work value on the …
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Value Creating or Value Capturing? An Examination of Human Capital Usage Flexibility
… on a firm’s ability to create and capture value from human capital. Contingencies that moderate the strength of the main relationship, such as levels of human capital firm specificity, HR strategy fit, and research and development intensity have also been examined in the study. Evidence …
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The Value of Value-Added: Science, Technology, and Policy in Educational Evaluation
… test scores. One evaluative technique, value-added assessment (VAA), has been given particular attention. This research presents a comprehensive study of the theoretical, technical, historical and political dimensions VAA. Theoretically, the assumptions that underlie value-added diverge …
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VDDM: A Value-Driven Decision Model to Augment Value-Focused Thinking Methodology
… of human interaction around alternatives. Value-Focused Thinking (VFT) offers a paradigm shift by emphasizing the primacy of values in framing decision problems prior to evaluating alternatives. This approach is critical as it shapes the decision-making process and outcomes from the outset. …
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Application of extreme value theory to the calculation of value-at-risk
The main aim of the study was to test the applicability of published EVT-based VaR calculation methods to the South African market. Two methods were tested on a hypothetical portolio of South African stocks, using the standard backtesting technique.
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