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... 29 PIRI AVERAGE PRICE CHANGE Rank Location Country/Area Nairobi Kenya Kenyan Coast Kenya Miami US Bali Indonesia Jakarta Indonesia London UK Vancouver Canada Moscow Russia Toronto Canada 10 Beijing ... Zealand 44 Washington DC US 45 Barcelona Spain 46 Paris France 47 Dubai UAE 48 Shanghai China 49 Madrid Spain 50 Singapore Singapore 51 Geneva Switzerland 52 Tuscany Italy 53 Barbados Caribbean ... important city in China in the past and it will be again As Valuation Director, Brand Finance, London SHANGHAI: The city is a catalyst for cultural and technological innovation and represents Chinese...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... information for internal decision making (UNDSD 2001; Savage and Jasch, 2005), namely (a) monetary information on environment-related costs, earnings and savings and (b) physical information on ... monetary values, regardless of a scientific consensus that these data are not accurate, may be understood as an adaptive response to an institutional context that encourages monetary valuation” ... year, % loss / used as inputs concentration indicators, as appropriate Highly variable, depending on legislation and environmental management system in place Management and disposal costs and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... organizational decision making 3 Model A central idea of performance feedback theory is that decision makers use an aspiration level to evaluate organizational performance along an organizational ... of simulation studies on how aspiration-level learning contributes to organizational adaptation Finally I discuss how organizational goal variables are chosen 39 40 Organizational Learning from ... as would a decision maker who lacks the information to build an adaptive aspiration level Are there natural aspiration levels in reality? Arguably, the status quo is often a natural aspiration...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... respond 3.3 Aspiration levels and adaptation Is it helpful or harmful for organizations that managers use performance feedback and aspiration levels to manage change? As noted earlier, historical ... Historical aspiration levels track the actual performance of the organization, and thus may let the aspiration level lose alignment with what is actually achievable in a given 66 Organizational Learning ... performance relative to the aspiration level affects organizational search, risk taking, and change This broad impact makes performance a “master switch” that controls a range of organizational responses...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... Lending officers, analysts, and bond traders are individuals taking risk on behalf of the organizations, as managers are, and the risk taken by a single trader can be substantial (Shapira 2000) Thus, ... of imitation and technology-based competition that reorganize an industry (Tushman and Anderson 1986) Innovations are thus important for the focal organization and for society at large Because ... that innovations are opposed to the organizational requirements of stability and legitimacy, and advocates organizational mechanisms for protecting and promoting innovations (Dougherty and Hardy...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... organizational change that many managers hesitate to make We can study the acquisition of assets by pursuing the usual idea that performance below the aspiration level causes organizational change and managerial ... the USA has provided additional support for this prediction (Kraatz 1998; Kraatz and Zajac 1996; Zajac and Kraatz 1993) These studies examined the adoption of professional programs such as business ... variables are measures of environmental opportunities, threats, and social models Measures of organizational capabilities and constraints can also be included The model and the control variables...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... advertising rates, targeted advertisers, and format changes Because radio broadcasting has many local markets, there is cross-sectional variation in social aspiration levels Because data are available ... estimates of historical aspiration levels Audience share estimates are a goal variable viewed as important by all radio station managers and sufficiently public that data are easy to compare across ... collect many years of performance data and one year of outcome data The potential for all organizations in a given year to be affected by third causes such as a common social aspiration level...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... cases: a manager who is fully rational and acting in the organization’s interest, and a manager who is boundedly rational and selfish The answer is that the former case seems unproblematic, and ... theories A recent and growing tradition in managerial cognition has drawn ideas from work on organizational enactment and individual cognition to explain how managers categorize other firms and differentially ... concrete organizational structure, and a set of rules and norms on how organizations should treat their employees A given organization may have many possible institutional configurations, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... Prentice-Hall 1995 Institutions and Organizations Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Scott, W Richard and John W Meyer 1983 “The organization of societal sectors.” Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality, ... “Understanding escalation situations: antecedents, prototypes, and solutions.” Research in Organizational Behavior, 9: 39–78 Staw, Barry M., Lance E Sandelands, and Jane E Dutton 1981 “Threat-rigidity ... Brandon and Michael T Hannan 1984 Social Dynamics: Models and Methods Orlando, FL: Academic Press Tushman, Michael L and Philip Anderson 1986 “Technological discontinuities and organizational environments.”...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... treatment concept for gunshot related intracranial haematomas Some authors had recommended an evacuation of haematomas [22,23], whereas others prefer evacuation only in cases of elevated intracranial ... Full Metal Jacket ammunition A metal casing around a lead core These bullets are dimensionally stable and produce nonexpanding and deep penetrating wounds Jacket Hollow Point ammunition Bullets ... threatening injuries of the thorax are haemato- or haematopneumothorax, tension pneumothorax and pericardial tamponade They should be diagnosed within the first physical examination and be treated...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... summary, the LCA probably was not able to produce either L-aspartate or L-asparagine via the modern canonical alternologs (nitrilase and asparaginase), but could via the degradation of oxaloacetate ... contrast, alanine racemase (EC:5.1.1.1) isomerizes D-alanine to Lalanine and is constrained to Bacteria Alanine aminotransferase (EC:2.6.1.2) converts L-glutamate and pyruvate to Lalanine and is ... Additional data files 18 The following additional data are available with the online version of this paper Additional data file is a graph showing a detailed view of the bipartite network analyzed...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... collaboration with other international organisations The member countries include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, ... International Energy Agency International Energy Forum Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change International Relations International Renewable Energy Agency Million tons of Carbon Dioxide North Atlantic ... assumptions and ontological and epistemological dispositions (Andreatta and Koenig-Archibugi 2010; Waever 1996) According to the neo-neo synthesis, states are the primary and rational unitary actors...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:17

... social and institutional factors, such as international organizations, transnational communities, and state institutions By understanding regional development as a trans-regional interactive ... regional collaborative networks and hence regional development Trans-regional community organizations on the one hand serve as an organizational channel for regional firms to deal with external business ... communication, and innovation, and retained regional competitive advantage in a given global production filiere Some researchers conducted an analytical focus similar with organizational approaches, mainly...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:21

... financial operations and transactions, research on financialization has established that finance is constituted by both financial and non-financial actors and institutions Hence, it is critical ... everyday life in finance The notion of financialization emanates from political economy and radical Marxian analyses of capitalism from the late 1960s to the 1980s Financialization was deemed as a ... Fundamental demand-supply and the financialization of oil 1.2 A financial geographical perspective on oil trading and production 1.3 Organization of Thesis 11 CHAPTER TWO: GEOGRAPHY OF FINANCE AND...

Ngày tải lên: 06/10/2015, 20:57

... analyze business transactions and determine their effects on items in the financial statements  Prepare an income statement, a statement of retained earnings, and a balance sheet  Analyze and ... Part A of Exhibit The summary shows subtotals after each transaction; these subtotals are optional and may be omitted Note how the accounting equation remains in balance after each transaction and ... the FASB and to the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory agencies The Institute of Management Accountants (formerly the National Association of Accountants) is an organization...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... response to the changes, and about the process for municipal decisionmaking;  discover what provincial and local actions are taking place in response to the changes;  have a chance to say what ... will continue to be delivered as a mandatory benefit without change Health-related benefits are costs like basic dental services, eyeglasses, and hearing aids for adults, as well as funerals and ... Table of Contents I Background on Provincial Budget Cuts to Social Assistance …………… Cap on health and non- health related discretionary benefits.……… Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 00:20

... payable, unearned delivery fees, and wages payable Sales tax payable, federal excise tax payable, current portions of long-term debt, and payroll liabilities are other examples • Estimated liabilities ... day of a month and the month of maturity has fewer days than the month of issuance, the note matures on the last day of the month of maturity A one-month note dated 2010 January 31, matures on ... receivable, income tax disputes, penalties that may be assessed because of some past action, and failure of another party to pay a debt that a company has guaranteed The following table summarizes...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20

... libraries and assume physical consolidation of individual print collections into an above-the-institution aggregation This paper takes an alternative approach, based on a broader view of library ... advocating megaregions as the appropriate scale for achieving consolidation and cooperative management in practice Assuming that regions are in fact the natural unit of consolidation, the scale at which ... Consequently, the operational concerns associated with shifting print management and access operations to a trusted partner are relatively modest Once an acceptable digital access and use platform...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... misinterpretation of label information and exploitation Secondly, regulating authorities should strive towards mandating labelling regulations that require a simpler format for label information that consumers ... decisions (Lazarowicz, 2005) In addition, educational programmes should educate consumers on interpreting technical label terminology and layout and to practically apply it in decision making, because ... regulations and thereby to reduce misleading label information Despite this, international research indicates that many consumers not trust claims made on labels and find label information difficult...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 18:33

... An introduction to 2-fuzzy n-normed linear spaces and a new perspective to the Mazur–Ulam problem Choonkil Park1 and Cihangir Alaca∗2 Department of Mathematics, Research Institute for Natural ... space onto a real normed linear space is a linear mapping up to translation Baker [12] showed an isometry from a real normed linear space into a strictly convex real normed linear space is a ne ... normed spaces Nonlinear Anal., in press, doi:10.1016/j.na.2011.10.006 [29] Rassias, ThM: On the A. D Aleksandrov problem of conservative distances and the Mazur–Ulam theorem Nonlinear Anal 47, 2597–2608...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20