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The role of international marketing channels in economic development: A structural analysis of the effects of exporting and importing on economic level and basic needs.

Mullen, Michael R. - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

International marketing is growing in volume and importance for firms. Consequently, the impact of international marketing on society has also taken on additional importance. Distribution through international marketing channels, often referred to as exporting and importing, is the most...

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STATISTICAL ESTIMATION METHODS IN VOLUNTEER PANEL WEB SURVEYS

Lee, Sunghee - 2004

Data collected through Web surveys, in general, do not adopt traditional probability-based sample designs. Therefore, the inferential techniques used for probability samples may not be guaranteed to be correct for Web surveys without adjustment, and estimates from these surveys are likely to be...

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Understanding the Mechanism of Panel Attrition

Lemay, Michael - 2009

Nonresponse is of particular concern in longitudinal surveys (panels) for several reasons. Cumulative nonresponse over several waves can substantially reduce the proportion of the original sample that remains in the panel. Reduced sample size increases the variance of the estimates and reduces...

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Specific competencies in humanitarian logistics education

Bölsche, Dorit; Klumpp, Matthias; Abidi, Hella - In: Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain … 3 (2013) 2, pp. 99-128

Purpose – The purpose of the research paper is to provide the humanitarian logistics community with an overall picture about competencies and skills in humanitarian logistics and if there is a lack of professionalization of the logistics function in humanitarian context from an international...

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Quantifying communication effects in disaster response logistics : A multiple network system dynamics model

Diedrichs, Danilo R.; Phelps, Kaile; Isihara, Paul A. - In: Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain … 6 (2016) 1, pp. 24-45

Purpose – Complementing the importance of adequate relief supplies and transportation capacity in the first two weeks of post-disaster logistics, efficient communication, information sharing, and informed decision making play a crucial yet often underestimated role in reducing wasted material...

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Designing Incentives for Inexpert Human Raters

Chen, Daniel L.; Horton, John J.; Shaw, Aaron D. - 2011

The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this paper, we report the results of an experiment - conducted in an online labor market - that measured the effectiveness of...

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Social Science Research Methods and Knowledge-Claims

Judge, Paramjit S - eSocialSciences - 2007

This paper explores three important but interrelated issues: The power of example; the fragment as evidence; and finally, the field experience and the possibility of generalisation. These issues are central in the current discourse of social science practice in which serious doubts are being raised...

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Sociological approaches to the European Union in times of turmoil

Saurugger, Sabine - In: Journal of common market studies : JCMS 54 (2016) 1, pp. 70-86

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A sociological perspective on meaningful work : community versus autonomy

Bykov, Andrey - In: Business ethics quarterly : the journal of the Society … 34 (2024) 3, pp. 409-439

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For a political sociology of water resources management

Mollinga, Peter P. - 2008

"political sociology of water resources management". The framing draws theoretical insights from sociology, development studies …, 1984; Archer, 1995) and the notion of public sociology (Burawoy, 2005a); development studies' understanding of the … studies in this particular way comes from. The section situates the field in relation to development sociology as the …

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