Yu, Wantao (2011) Operations strategy, business environment, operations resources and performance: an empirical study of retail firms in China. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Access from the University of Nottingham repository: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14191/1/546558.pdf Copyright and reuse: The Nottingham ePrints service makes this work by researchers of the University of Nottingham available open access under the following conditions. · Copyright and all moral rights to
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REFRESHER ON THE CASE STUDY METHOD The case study method embraces the full set of procedures needed to do case study research. These tasks include designing a case study, collecting the study’s data, analyzing the data, and presenting and reporting the results. (None of the tasks, nor the rest of this book, deals with the development of teaching case studies—frequently also referred to as the “case study method”—the pedagogical goals of which may differ entirely from doing research studies.) The present
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research question analyses the relationship between two variables, parenting and ethnicity, and aims to evaluate the influence they have on gang membership throughout teenage years. Literature suggests that poor parenting and ethnic minorities are more subjected to joining a gang. Furthermore Smith and Bradshaw (2005:3) suggest that gang members are younger with 20% of young people belonging to a gang at the age of 13, and just 5% by the age of 17. In this analysis I will investigate how prominent
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no influence on the firm’s performance. This is because this study shows that the relationship between the audit committee and the two performance measures is not statistically significant.This result is not consistent with some previous studies such as Klein (2002) and Mansi and Reeb (2004), where they reported strong positive relationship between audit committee and the performance variables they used in their studies ← Audit committees being occupied by majority of outside
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Marketing Research Managers need information in order to introduce products and services that create value in the mind of the customer. But the perception of value is a subjective one, and what customers value this year may be quite different from what they value next year. As such, the attributes that create value cannot simply be deduced from common knowledge. Rather, data must be collected and analyzed. The goal of marketing research is to provide the facts and direction that managers need to
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Meta-analysis is the review, and subsequent reanalysis, of relevant data obtained from many studies using statistics, with a view to providing a more coherent conclusion regarding a given hypothesis. The initial compilation of such a study is arduous, requiring many hours of dedicated searching. This in itself is one of the strengths of such a technique, providing somewhat of a fine tooth comb for research already conducted and also allowing for integration of unpublished data which may have been
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Melinda Folmerz, Kamrul Hasan, Thomaidou Alexia Examiner: Dr. Maria Fregidou-Malama Paper type: Assignment 3: Article Analysis Semester: Autumn 2014 (HT14) Group 1 INTRODUCTION The article that we choose to analyze has to do with the trust developed in business to business relationship. The title is “Trust formation in cross-cultural business-tobusiness relationships” and it is written by Heffernan Troy. It is published by the Emerald Group Publishing Limited and it comes from Qualitative
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Atatürk Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, Cilt: 28, Sayı: 3, 2014 189 INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN TURKEY Funda ÖZÇELİK Burcu AVCI ÖZTÜRK Sevda GÜRSAKAL Abstract: This paper examined the relationship between corporate social responsibility and firm financial performance in Borsa Istanbul 100 index companies between the years 2010 and 2012. In order to test our hypothesis that the companies issuing corporate
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the research and spells out the research methodology. Orientation, conduct of the research and overall design are the major coverage of this chapter. The entire research process embraces several relationships of observation, participation, and interaction, among others. A small-scale qualitative research study was adopted by the researcher in two stages. The researcher decided to teach two sets of drama lessons based on citizenship education topics in the upper primary school curriculum specifically
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Name Withheld BUS xxx-Business Class Professor Name Withheld Saturday, May x, 20xx Case Study Analysis: The Reluctant Workers Tim Aston, a young Project Manager only three months into the company, is experiencing difficulty with the operation of his project. The case study is a dialog between Tim and his director, Phil Davies, concerning the advancement of the project. The analysis is on three of the ten effective program management skills and the improvements that should be made for the project
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