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The literature related to benchmarking practices and theory was reviewed from 1986 to 2000. The earlier stages of benchmarking developments stressed a process and/or activity orientation. Recently, however, the scope of benchmarking appears to have expanded to include strategies and systems....
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employed. Design/methodology/approach – The article examines the development of the upstream social marketing concept in the …
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called “new wave manufacturing” in order to embrace the entirety of the development of these concepts. Assesses key …
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This paper argues that developing productive relationships is an essential capability of effective leaders. Research both in the East and the West has demonstrated that managers who develop effective relationships motivate and inspire employees to solve problems and perform effectively. It is...
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Sets out a model giving an interpretation of the engine of economic development and growth, and business cycle. Based … disequilibrating processes are intertwined and operate. Carries out concise application to successive stages of economic development …
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Increasing utilization of expert systems in organizations has ecessitated development of large‐scale expert systems … open information systems to outline a conceptual framework for large‐scale expert system development called an open …‐based expert system (OES) architecture. The framework proposes partitioning large‐scale expert systems development into smaller and …
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This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a macroeconomic section on their growth effects. At the micro level we first present in a fully harmonized...
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countries. We structurally estimate a model of oligopsony with free entry for countries at different stages of development and … the top of the development ladder. …
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