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justice must be fully implemented already now, i.e., under the regime to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. First, the increase in …
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This paper reports on a recent study aimed at identifying the key factors influencing the development of the construction industry. From a list of 62 variables identified in earlier studies, a questionnaire survey was conducted. This quantitative study elicited views from 76 respondents and...
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In developed markets a growing number of consumers expect businessorganisations to take responsibility for their impact on society as a whole. Thisresearch investigated the applicability of these first world concerns to SouthAfrican consumers.A statically significant sample of 171 respondents...
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strategic functions. We conclude by discussing the theoretical, research, and managerial implications that arise from an ethics …
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perceptions of consumer ethics from young consumers on five continents. The study seeks to present a profile of consumer …. Originality/value: This investigation into consumer ethics helps businesses understand what their customer base believes is the … right thing in their role as customer. This is a large-scale study of consumer ethics including 3,739 respondents on five …
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"One of the successes in contemporary social science is the development and proliferation of game theory. For a wide … range of phenomena, game theory produces enormous insight into the strategic interaction of individuals. Its greatest power …, information aggregation or when confronting large-scale social dilemmas. However, as Ostrom (1998) reminds us, game theory also …
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Purpose – This article seeks to examine the strategic options open to transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe in the face of intense competition in two highly sensitive economic sectors within the EU. Design/methodology/approach – This exploratory paper makes use of cross-country...
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In this brief, we propose a fast expectation conditional maximization (ECM) algorithm for maximum-likelihood (ML) estimation of mixtures of factor analyzers (MFA). Unlike the existing expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms such as the EM in Ghahramani and Hinton, 1996, and the alternating ECM...
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Although the Bock–Aitkin likelihood-based estimation method for factor analysis of dichotomous item response data has important advantages over classical analysis of item tetrachoric correlations, a serious limitation of the method is its reliance on fixed-point Gauss-Hermite (G-H) quadrature...
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