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Retailing is rapidly becoming a global industry and many retailers are expanding to foreign markets. However, several retailers successful in their home countries have failed in emerging markets such as Chile. Little is known why these retailers succeed in some venues and not others. A case...
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Value Management (VM) initially started in early 1940s in the US manufacturing industry has increasingly becoming … management of projects. The structured, systematic and multi-disciplinary approach in decision making process is a niche for VM … essential management tool in the Malaysian construction sector especially in the quantity surveying practice. Quantity surveyors …
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Despite the increasing recognition of the importance of word of mouth as an integral component of a firms’ marketing … resources by pursuing more innovative marketing techniques. In addition, although there has been a great deal of research into … research with the firms marketing strategy. In this paper, we consider the diffusion of innovation literature and recent …
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well-known to marketing academics and practitioners, but arguably the latent preference structure that explains discrete …
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Within the marketing literature, an untapped context for investigating event sponsorship effects (based on dollar or in …-kind support) is that of government-to-business (G2B) marketing. Government strategies to attract or build relationships with inter …-state or off-shore corporate investors sit within this domain. Investor-directed marketing strategies, not unlike a company's B …
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This paper empirically examines models of replacement sales for six electronic consumer durables ? TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Digital Cameras, personal and notebook computers ? using data from a large survey of 8077 German households. A new replacement model is developed that fits the empirical...
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The short- and long-run daily price relationships between cash and futures markets for live hogs were examined over the 1975-89 period. Price discovery generally originates in the futures market with about 65% of new information being passed from the futures to the cash market. However, at...
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A formula for deriving the price of segregated early-weaned (SEW) pigs using prices of grain, soybean meal, and market hog was estimated based on return on investment being equal for all three phases of production—farrowing, nursery, and finishing. The USDA- reported SEW pig priceswere...
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order, Standards Managers have been assigned for each DOE Secretarial office, each DOE Field Office, and each management and … use of standards at DOE facilities. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-119 also stresses the importance of …
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In keeping with a mandate from the US Congress to provide opportunities for consumer education and information and to seek consumer input on national issues, the Department of Energy's Office of Consumer Affairs held a three-hour educational forum on the proposed nuclear waste disposal...
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