Search Results - subject:"Prescriptive"

Creativity barriers in South African higher education institution / Andrea Garnett

Garnett, Andrea - 2005

able to ascertain whether prescriptive or emergent strategic approaches will be most suitable within an organisational … prevalent prescriptive strategy dimensions and processes being employed by selected South African public higher education … South Africa? What relationships can be observed between the prescriptive strategy dimensions, the creativity barrier …

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What Did the Market Buy? Cost Savings Under the U. S. Tradeable Permits Program for Sulfur Dioxide

Keohane, Nathaniel O. - School of Management, Yale University - 2003

than a more conventional prescriptive approach? Using an econometric model of the decision whether or not to install a … scrubber under different policy regimes, I simulate the decisions that would have been made under prescriptive regulation. I … in the distribution of scrubbers among units is more striking. Under prescriptive regulation, installed scrubbers would …

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Identifying some obstacles from intuition to a successful mediation process

Lempereur, Alain - ESSEC Business School - 2003

chance of a negative process and mediation failure, with a prescriptive approach of alternative behaviors that increase the …

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Actualist rationality

Manski, Charles - In: Theory and Decision 71 (2011) 2, pp. 195-210

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TQM implementation: and empirical examination and proposed generic model

Gallear, D N; Ghobadian, A - 2001

organisations widely regarded as leading exponents of TQM. The paper presents a non-prescriptive model of the TQM implementation …

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The shift to warranties and performance specifications: what of method specifications?

Guo, Kelu; Minchin, Edward; Ferragut, Ted - In: Construction Management and Economics 23 (2005) 9, pp. 953-963

specifications based on measurable performance has been developed for the industry. The move from method, or prescriptive …

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Prescriptive Model for the Strategic Decision-Making Processes from the Romanian Enterprises

Stefanescu, Razvan - In: Economics and Applied Informatics (2005) JUNE, pp. 63-68

This paper proposes a prescriptive model for the strategic decision-making from the Romanian enterprises. Within the …

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What Common Ground Exists for Descriptive, Prescriptive, and Normative Utility Theories?

Luce, R. Duncan; Winterfeldt, Detlof von - In: Management Science 40 (1994) 2, pp. 263-279

invariance principles. This paper attempts to search out the common ground between the normative, descriptive, and prescriptive … involved have confounded preference and structural rationality. We propose a prescriptive view that entails full compliance …

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Intra-Agency Politics Conflict and Contravention in Administrative Entities

Dexter, Lewis Anthony - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 2 (1990) 2, pp. 151-171

This paper develops the notion of political process within administrative entities; it rests particularly upon the work of Arthur F. Bentley but is also much influenced by the political concerns of the early Herbert Simon; it extends, also, Francis Rourke's consideration of bureaucratic...

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CONTEXT OF USING RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY MEASURES - Relevance of correlation in the study of causation

Walter AMEDZRO ST-HILAIRE, PhD - In: Global Journal of Strategies, Governance & Applied Economics 3, 1, pp. 6-22

these measures can enhance the results of studies that have a strong prescriptive component. Also, it is a synthetic study …

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