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Interorganizational partner selection decisions are plagued with uncertainty. When making partnering decisions, firms … questions help reduce three types of uncertainty – partner capability uncertainty, partner competitiveness uncertainty and … partner reliability uncertainty. For a relationship to benefit both partners, they have to possess complimentary resources of …
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We develop a theoretical model to compare forecast uncertainty estimated from time-series models to those available … from survey density forecasts. The sum of the average variance of individual densities and the disagreement is shown to … approximate the predictive uncertainty from well-specified time-series models when the variance of the aggregate shocks is …
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Purpose – This chapter investigates vulnerability to poverty in the Republic of Haiti. Methodology – We use a hierarchical modeling technique to allow the assessment and decomposition of vulnerability to poverty by exploiting the short-panel structure of nested data in a cross section....
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status characteristics and social identity theories. We then develop an uncertainty reduction model of relational demography …, which describes a two-stage process of uncertainty emergence and reduction in a workgroup setting. The first stage depicts …) induce two forms of uncertainty: uncertainty about group norms and uncertainty about instrumental outcomes. The second part …
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We develop an indicator of project uncertainty via the sensitivity of the IRR to any assumption regarding which …
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chapter examines key issues at the intersection of public libraries, the Internet, and economic uncertainty and library …
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) ( Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007 ) of 2007 concluded that most of the warming of the climate is very likely driven by human activities that increase greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the...
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Many people as well as the government in Bangladesh perceive floods and cyclones as recurrent environmental hazards in the country. They also view that these two hazards are the main contributors to crop loss in the country. But, in reality, droughts afflict the country at least as frequently as...
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The increasing climate-induced disaster is one of the main obstacles for sustainable development. Many countries and their housing sectors are already highly vulnerable to weather and climate extremes, as illustrated by tropical cyclones in Myanmar, Viet Nam, and the Philippines, and flooding in...
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Ever since human society developed, environmental and social changes have led to major challenges that must be dealt with. Some of these major challenges are seen as “disasters,” for which a definition that is frequently used is similar to “A serious disruption of the functioning of a...
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