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Quality perceptions of internal and external customers: a case study in educational administration

Galloway, Les - In: The TQM Magazine 10 (1998) 1, pp. 20-26

Social and political influences are increasing the importance of quality in the higher education (HE) sector as in other areas of public service. Quality is an elusive concept in most services, but it is particularly so in public service with the wide range of customers and stakeholders...

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The quality of British management: Asia‐Pacific perceptions

Savery, Lawson; Mazzarol, Tim; Dawkins, Peter - In: Journal of Management Development 17 (1998) 9, pp. 600-629

A stratified random sample of respondents was identified from databases compiled by associate researchers located in each of five countries, namely Singapore, Malaysia Taiwan, Indonesia and Japan. The aim of the study was to establish which dimensions of management skill are important to...

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Country of origin effects: a literature review

Al‐Sulaiti, Khalid I.; Baker, Michael J. - In: Marketing Intelligence & Planning 16 (1998) 3, pp. 150-199

perceptions of products and services. Results reveal that consumer perceptions differ significantly on the basis of product …/service and country of origin. The country of origin may be an important element in the perceptions consumers have of products and …

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Social constructionism and research in marketing and advertising

Hackley, Christopher E. - In: Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 1 (1998) 3, pp. 125-131

This paper seeks to present a general case for the use of a broadly social constructionist metatheoretical perspective for qualitative research in marketing. The discussion makes reference to a current empirical study into advertising creativity in order to try to draw out particular...

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Differences in Subjective Risk Thresholds: Worker Groups as an Example

Gaba, Anil; Viscusi, W. Kip - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 6, pp. 801-811

Subjective risk perceptions are often encoded as responses to 0-1 questions in surveys or other qualitative risk scales …

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Helping supervised learning with an educated teacher

Idiart, Marco A.P.; Helena, Emerson L. de Santa - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 257 (1998) 1, pp. 395-400

We study the problem of supervised learning in a scenario with a student, a teacher and a book. The student and teacher learn using the Hebbian learning rule, but while the teacher’s training set comes exclusively from the book, the student receives examples from the book and from the teacher....

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Retail buyers’ perceptions of quick response systems

Fiorito, Susan S.; Giunipero, Larry C.; Yan, He - In: International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 26 (1998) 6, pp. 237-246

investigate the perceptions, attitudes and opinions of retail buyers toward QR. Over 200 buyers from leading department and … describing buyers’ perceptions of QR that were related to the size of their organization. …

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Perceptions of generic products: a macro and micro view

Prendergast, Gerard P.; Marr, Norman E. - In: Journal of Product & Brand Management 6 (1997) 2, pp. 93-108

items. Previous studies of consumer perceptions of generic products tend to be broad in their scope by looking at generic … characteristics of generic purchasers, and their broad perceptions of generic products as a group; and, the research extends previous … generic products are not performing as well as others when it comes to consumers’ perceptions and demands. Proposes that if …

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Alcohol warnings and warning labels: an examination of alternative alcohol warning messages and perceived effectiveness

DeCarlo, Thomas E. - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 14 (1997) 6, pp. 448-462

Examines consumer perceptions regarding the effectiveness of government‐mandated alcohol warning labels and … levels of alcohol consumption and perceptions of warning‐label effectiveness to be insignificant; and that health … consciousness to be ineffective in predicting perceptions of label effectiveness. However, health consciousness was related to the …

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Tomorrow's company is the company you keep

Worcester, Robert M. - In: Journal of Communication Management 1 (1997) 3, pp. 256-261

This paper describes a business model — the MORI Excellence model — developed by the author for effective management of a company's communications programme and then goes on to suggest that it can be implemented if supported by measurement systems of key audience values. The paper concludes...

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