Pennsylvania Study: Employee and Student Perceptions of Skills and Experiences Needed for Careers in Agribusiness
Pennsylvania Study: Employee and Student Perceptions of Skills and Experiences Needed for Careers in Agribusiness ~ Changes occurring in the economic arena have created agreater need for better understanding of global markets. Individuals who plan to enter the highly complex world ofagribusiness are going to need specialized skills. This studyexamined the perceptions of agribusiness employees [...]
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Flood risk, insurance and emergency management in Australia
Flood risk, insurance and emergency management in Australia ~ Reflections from the Queensland floods Given their financial constraints and their legal obligations to shareholders and the need to ensure solvency, insurers cannot act as welfare or quasi welfare services. More people need to have full insurance coverage and the system should better facilitate this objective. [...]
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The contextual nature of the market orientation and organizational performance relationship: an Australian and New Zealand study
The contextual nature of the market orientation and organizational performance relationship: an Australian and New Zealand study ~ Market Orientation Kohli and Jaworski (1990) suggested that market orientation (MO) is an organisational state that is, in part, determined by the senior management of the organisation. They posited that the degree of market orientation in evidence [...]
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Private security and public interest: Exploring private security trends and directions for reform in the new era of plural policing
Private security and public interest: Exploring private security trends and directions for reform in the new era of plural policing ~ Up to 1998, research revealed that security industries were growing at a greater rate than the public police (Prenzler and Sarre, 1998) and that there was a growing trend toward oligopolies where 1% of [...]
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Incentives for Disclosure of Accounting Information in Public Sector: A Literature Survey
Incentives for Disclosure of Accounting Information in Public Sector: A Literature Survey ~ 1. Introduction Accounting information is meant to be a tool for decision making for various stakeholders. Thus, wide disclosure of information to various parties (both internal and external) in an organisation is essential. However, evidence indicates a lack of disclosure of accounting [...]
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Allied Academies International Internet Conference Proceedings
Allied Academies International Internet Conference Proceedings ~ VENTURE CAPITAL DEMAND INDEX FOR GERMANY Ted Azarmi, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences ABSTRACT Research sponsored by SHS Venture Capital, Tuebingen Prof. Azarmi’s Venture Demand Index is a survey of startup, entrepreneurial, and growth companies focusing on Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. The survey team consists of PhD student [...]
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STRATEGIC FIT AMONG BUSINESS COMPETITIVE STRATEGY, HUMAN RESOURCE STRATEGY, AND REWARD SYSTEM
STRATEGIC FIT AMONG BUSINESS COMPETITIVE STRATEGY, HUMAN RESOURCE STRATEGY, AND REWARD SYSTEM ~ management and strategic management. Furthermore, according to the contingency view, there is no one best way to structure an organization; it all depends on the particular circumstances facing the organization. In this case, human resource strategy must fit with specific business strategy [...]
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A further editorial guideline for writing manuscript in the field of social science: A special perspective for African Journal of Business Management (AJBM)
A further editorial guideline for writing manuscript in the field of social science: A special perspective for African Journal of Business Management (AJBM) ~ Research design This section would include a number of relevant subsections reflecting the nature of research. These subsections vary in the context of research method. However, a global pattern always holds. [...]
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The Frequency of Nonresponse Analyses in the Journal of Sport Management
The Frequency of Nonresponse Analyses in the Journal of Sport Management ~ A prominent debate within the sport management discourse has surrounded the quality, focus, and direc- tion of academic research (e.g., Chalip, 2006; Cuneen & Parks, 1997; Parks & Bartley, 1996). While the emphasis has predominately been on the usefulness of theory to sport [...]
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RESEARCH NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS CUSTOMER-LED AND MARKET-ORIENTED: LET’S NOT CONFUSE THE TWO
RESEARCH NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS CUSTOMER-LED AND MARKET-ORIENTED: LET’S NOT CONFUSE THE TWO ~ If the nature and benefits of being market- oriented are so well documented in the marketing literature, why does this debate continue in the management literature? We propose that the problem has occurred because, without realizing it, scholars are talking about two [...]
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Human-Level Artificial Intelligence Must Be an Extraordinary Science
Human-Level Artificial Intelligence Must Be an Extraordinary Science ~ Aiming to create a cognitive system with human-level intelligence is as different from normal scientific objectives as reaching artificial immortality is to the goals of modern medicine. Most researchers in artificial intelligence, along with the institutions that support them, advocate that AI research should conform to [...]
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Differences in Categorization Between Biological and Artificial Cognitive Systems
Differences in Categorization Between Biological and Artificial Cognitive Systems ~ Biological cognitive systems and artificial cognitive systems are different in the methods in which they form categories and the assignment of meaning to a category. Biological systems form categories out of necessity for survival or based on logical groupings formed out of experience. For artificial [...]
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