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Management cybernetics: Computer simulation models of operational management organizations

Alshawi, S - 1986

Cybernetics is the science of effective organization, i.e. the science that describes the general principles of growth, learning and adaptation in complex, dynamical systems.Stafford Beer regards his viable system model as a design for effective formal organization. He also declares that since...

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Optimal harvesting of fish stocks under a time-varying discount rate

Duncan, Stephen; Hepburn, Cameron; Papachristodoulou, … - 2011

Optimal control theory has been extensively used to determine the optimal harvesting policy for renewable resources such as fish stocks. In such optimisations, it is common to maximise the discounted utility of harvesting over time, employing a constant time discount rate. However, evidence from...

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Making Forecasts for Chaotic Processes in the Presence of Model Error

Danforth, Christopher M - 2006

Numerical weather forecast errors are generated by model deficiencies and by errors in the initial conditions which interact and grow nonlinearly. With recent progress in data assimilation, the accuracy in the initial conditions has been substantially improved so that accounting for systematic...

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Civility Matters

Vahie, Archna - 2011

attribution theory. Using the CDSII scale based on attribution theory, experimental research design was used with current civil …

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JOB SEARCH EXPERIENCES: A WITHIN-PERSON EXAMINATION OF JOB SEARCH SELF-EFFICACY, BEHAVIORS, AND OUTCOME

Liu, Songqi - 2011

. In addition, although goal orientation and attribution are highly relevant to self-regulation, previous studies on job … goal orientation and attribution moderated the within-person relationship between perceived job search progress and self …

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The Economics of Agricultural R&D

Alston, Julian M.; Pardey, Philip G.; James, Jennifer S.; … - 2009

Agricultural research has transformed agriculture and in doing so contributed to the transformation of economies. Economic issues arise because agricultural research is subject to various market failures, because the resulting innovations and technological changes have important economic...

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Causal Effects of European Active Labor Market Policy : Foundations and Empirics

Kluve, Jochen - 2001

predominant procedures to model causation in the empirical sciences. It subsequently focuses on a particular statistical model …

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Homer Sarasohn interview, 1988-07-02, part 3

Sarasohn, Homer - 1988

Myron Tribus interviews Homer Sarasohn in Arizona. Sarasohn begins by talking about the history and background of industries such as the Ford Motor Company. Sarasohn says that he joined Booz Allen Hamilton when he returned to the United States from Japan. He then talks about business practices...

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains of Global Brands: A Boundaryless Responsibility? Clarifications, exceptions and implications

Amaeshi, Kenneth; Osuji, Onyeka Kingsley; Nnodim, Paul - 2009

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly becoming a popular business concept in developed economies. As …) underpinnings of the concept of responsibility. Except where corporate control and or corporate grouping exist, it identifies the … use of power as a critical factor to be considered in allocating responsibility in firm-supplier relationship; and …

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The cost of failing states and the limits to sovereignty

Chauvet, Lisa; Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - 2007

In this paper, we estimate the costs of state failure, both for the failing state itself and for its neighbours. In our analysis, the cost of failure arises from two distinct sources: organized violence due to the incapacity of the state to ensure its own citizens’ security and low quality of...

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