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Bargaining Chains (Long Version)
Lovejoy, William S. - 2010
We consider a firm that designs a new product and wishes to bring it to market, but does not have ownership or control over all of the resources required to make that happen. The firm must select and contract with one of several possible tier 1 suppliers for necessary inputs, who do the same...
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Three Essays on the Economics of Information Systems.
Jian, Lian - 2010
My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social scientific approach to identify the strategic behavior of individuals in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476980
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Tale of two Koreas
Ratten, Vanessa; Waechter, Estelle - 2007
The economic performances of North and South Korea over the past decade have differed significantly. This is largely due to the government policies of the two countries, which affect business in conflicting ways. Despite the differences in economic growth, there are a number of similarities...
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Frameworks for the management of cross-cultural communication and business performance in the globalizing economy: a professional service TNC case study in Indonesia
Singleton, Helen Caroline Mackay - 2002
presents management with universal and particular paradoxes mediated through diverse contextual micro communication practices … economic, political, and cultural societal concerns for the development of more responsive ethical and sustainable management … and governance. This thesis argues for an elevated notion of the role of communication management to enable business to …
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U.S. Department of Energy Consequence Management Under the National Response Framework
H. Clark, R. Allen - 2009
Dramatic advances in data management have been made as a result of the Paperless FRMAC initiative, sponsored by the DOE …
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The new quality philosophy and management's role
Narath, A. - 2008
This talk is about leadership. Leaders are people at every level in an organization who believe in change and are energized by it. They understand the difficult realities of competitive existence. They motivate and challenge. They provide positive reinforcement -- but are never satisfied with...
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A conceptual framework for using DOE 5700. 6C and the other DOE orders as an integrated management system; the Fermilab experience
Bodnarczuk, M. - 2009
integrated management system -- but I describe it within the context of the broader sociological and cultural issues of doing … functional categories that orchestrate and integrate the other DOE Orders into a total management system. The Fermilab approach …
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PRODUCE MORE OIL AND GAS VIA eBUSINESS DATA SHARING
Paul Jehn; Mike Stettner - 2008
for the DOE's Energy 100 Award-winning Risk Based Data Management System (RBDMS) data source and XML Web services. This … with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), this project will improve access to public lands and make strides towards …
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Visual Sample Plan (VSP): A Tool for Balancing Sampling Requirements Against Decision Error Risk
Pulsipher, Brent A.; Gilbert, Richard O.; Wilson, John E.; … - 2008
Environmental characterization is necessary to support remediation and monitoring decisions and to construct and validate contaminant dispersion models. The more samples obtained, the greater is the protection against making incorrect decisions. However, taking too many samples wastes valuable...
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Lessons Learned on Benchmarking from the International Human Reliability Analysis Empirical Study
Ronald L. Boring; John A. Forester; Andreas Bye; Vinh … - 2010
The International Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) Empirical Study is a comparative benchmark of the prediction of HRA methods to the performance of nuclear power plant crews in a control room simulator. There are a number of unique aspects to the present study that distinguish it from previous...
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