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My philosophical case study concerns textbook presentations of the theory of demand. Does this theory contain anything more than just a collection of tautologies? In order to determine its empirical content, it must be viewed holistically. But then, the theory implies false factual claims. We...
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(DEA) methodology is used as a benchmarking tool to locate a frontier which is then used to evaluate the efficiency of each …
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Experimental economics is the newest tool available to improve the research of economists. The first chapter reviews … to economic research. …
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methodology used in demonstrating the credibility of case study research is emphasised. …This paper explores qualitative research in general and the case study approach in particular as used in Operations … Management (OM) theory-building research. It discusses the relative strengths and weaknesses of qualitative approaches used in OM …
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This paper suggests that, while advertising has changed, advertising research has not. Indeed, questions asked of … advertising research more than 20 years ago have still not been answered. The enormity of change in advertising compounded by the … lack of response from researchers suggests the traditional academic advertising research model requires more than routine …
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Many large-scale national and international testing programs use the Raschmodel to govern the construction of measurement scales that can be used tomonitor standards of performance and monitor performance over time. Asignificant issue that arises in such programs is that once a decision has...
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This paper discusses the impact of agile methodology in complex and modular interrelated projects based on the authors … dependent upon the employed methodology and project management. This is so because employed methodology plays an important … rapidly becoming popular in the software development industry. This paper examines this crucial role of agile methodology in a …
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Die Komplexit?t ist mehr in jeder Hinsicht und darf nicht "simplifziert" werden. Das Ziel dieser empirischen Studie ist eine Antwort auf die Fragen zu finden, ob die objektiv-rationale Komplexit?tsbew?ltigung im Multiprojektmanagement an ihre Grenzen st??t und, daraus abgeleitet, wie...
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information, nor are differences between the methods clearly definable. Examples of previous studies using each methodology are … disaster mitigation) are then discussed. Maximum benefits can be attained from such a research process that involves policy …
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The Forest Inventory and Analysis program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture conducts a national inventory of fine woody debris (FWD); however, the sampling protocols involve tallying only the number of FWD pieces by size class that intersect a sampling transect with no...
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