Search Results - subject:"NORTH AMERICA"

Transfreight reduces costs and balances workload at Georgetown crossdock

Rosales, Claudia R.; Fry, Michael J.; Radhakrishnan, Rajesh - In: Interfaces : the INFORMS journal on the practice of … 39 (2009) 4, pp. 316-328

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Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Damages Calculations: Transatlantic Dialogue

In: Personal injury and wrongful death damages calculations …, (pp. iii). 2009

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The transatlantic dialogue: An introduction

Ward, John O.; Thornton, Robert J. - In: Personal injury and wrongful death damages calculations …, (pp. 1-10). 2009

This collection of original papers had its origin in a series of annual meetings of the National Association of Forensic Economics (NAFE) held in Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, and the United States from 2004 to 2008. NAFE sponsored these meetings to explore common research areas in the...

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Social and environmental accounting in North America: A Research Note

Cho, Charles H.; Patten, Dennis M. - In: Sustainability, environmental performance and disclosures, (pp. 161-177). 2009

Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) “Summer School” in North America. But its roots reach down as well to other recent … in North America are; (2) the degree to which North American–based accounting research journals publish SEA …-related research; and (3) where we, the SEA sub-discipline within North America, might be headed. We begin with the who. …

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Using data envelopment analysis to analyze the performance of North American class I freight railroads

Malhotra, Rashmi; Malhotra, D.K.; Lermack, Harvey - In: Financial modeling applications and data envelopment …, (pp. 113-131). 2009

With increased crude oil prices, railroad is emerging as a cheaper alternative to trucks and other less fuel efficient modes of transportation. As a result, with increase in crude oil price, while other modes of transportation have suffered economic slump, railroad industry is thriving with...

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Restaurant tipping: short-circuiting the morality of the market

Suarez, Daniel - In: Economic development, integration, and morality in Asia …, (pp. 307-339). 2009

Current theoretical frameworks within economics have so far been unable to adequately explain why people tip. This chapter synthesizes anthropological method and theory into a symbolic interactionist approach, attempting to access, through ethnography, the negotiated meanings underlying and...

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The governance of energy in North America : the United States and its continental periphery

Clarkson, Stephen - In: Governing the energy challenge : Canada and Germany in …, (pp. 99 - 121). 2009

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North-South Trade and Occupational Wages : Some Evidence from North America

Reinert, Kenneth A.; Roland-Holst, David W. - 2009

of North-South trade on occupational wages in North America. Using a detailed, applied general equilibrium model, we …

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Fairness in international trade and investment : North American perspectives

Bird, Frederick B.; Vance, Thomas; Woolstencroft, Peter - In: Journal of business ethics : JOBE 84 (2009), pp. 405-425

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Radical economics and labor : essays inspired by the IWW Centennial

Lee, Frederic S. (contributor); Bekken, Jon (contributor) - 2009

1. Senex's Letters on associated labour and The pioneer, 1834 : a syndicalist political economy in the making / Noel Thompson -- 2. Peter Kropotkin's anarchist economics for a new society / Jon Bekken -- 3. Some notes on anarchist economic thought / Mathew Forstater -- 4. The economics of the...

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