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		<title><![CDATA[Portfolio Assessment Using A Structured Interview]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=315835]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Portfolios have gained considerable popularity as both learning and assessment tools in the past decade. A major limitation of portfolios, however, is the resource-intensive nature of the assessment process. Published data report examination times exceeding 90 minutes per candidate. In resource-constrained environments, typical of developing countries, this time requirement is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Good Or Bad? - The Influence Of FDI On Productivity Growth An Industry-Level Analysis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=312774]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Macroeconomic research discusses credit market imperfections as a key channel through which inequality retards growth. Limited borrowing prevents the less affluent individuals from investing the efficient amount, and the inefficiencies are considered to become stronger as inequality rises. This paper, though, argues that higher inequality may actually boost aggregate output...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Honorary Lecture by Carla del Ponte at Erasmus University Rotterdam.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5570/is_200510/ai_n24182806]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, October 12 /PRNewswire/ --     On  Thursday 13 October 2005 Carla del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor at the  International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague  will be giving the 11th Mandeville lecture entitled Virtues and Vices  versus Legality:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Knowledge Accumulation Changed the Competitive Advantage of Strategy Consulting Firms]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=136812]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Research evidence confirms that the accumulation of knowledge contributes to the competitive advantage of firms. In the strategy consulting industry, one of the most knowledge-intensive professional services industries, however, established firms that exploited their knowledge accumulation by adding exploitative consulting practices have found their performance has deteriorated. To investigate this...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Modeling Brand Choice Using Boosted and Stacked Neural Networks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=135685]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The brand choice problem in marketing has recently been addressed with methods from computational intelligence such as neural networks. Another class of methods from computational intelligence, the so-called ensemble methods such as boosting and stacking has never been applied to the brand choice problem. Ensemble methods generate a number of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Modelling Entrepreneurship]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=135530]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Two approaches can be distinguished with respect to modeling entrepreneurship: the approach focusing on the net development of the number of entrepreneurs in an equilibrium framework and the approach focusing on the entries and exits of entrepreneurs. This paper unifies these approaches to arrive at a model explaining the equilibrium...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Internet Retailing as a Marketing Strategy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=135646]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This report analyzes the incentives for incumbent bricks-and-mortar firms and new entrants to start an online retail channel in a differentiated goods market. To this end we set up a two-stage model where firms first decide whether or not to build the infrastructure necessary to start an online retail channel...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/online+retail.html"><![CDATA[Online Retail]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Comparison Of Inventory Control Policies For A Joint Manufacturing / Remanufacturing Environment]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=316401]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[We consider a joint manufacturing / remanufacturing environment with remanufacturing yield loss. Demand and return follow independent stationary Poisson processes. Returns can be disposed off upon arrival to the system. Manufacturing and remanufacturing operations performed in the same facility at exponential rates. Yield information becomes available after remanufacturing. Demands that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GATT and Its Effects on Shipping and Ports]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=167607]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The title of this paper is more ambitious than what its contents justify. The agreement signed in Marrakesh in April 1994 consists of twenty thousand pages that, at a rate of twenty pages per night, could make interesting bed time reading for many of them, for 1001 Arabian nights. Although...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Preference Utilisation and Tariff Reduction in EU Imports From ACP Countries]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=133439]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the long relationship between the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific ACP countries aimed at encouraging their exports while stimulating growth and investment, the ACP states still face difficulties in integrating into the world economy. This paper examines the non-least developed ACP countries preferential trade with the EU....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Determinants of Entrepreneurship in Europe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=135707]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper uses an Eclectic Framework explaining entrepreneurship incorporating different streams of literature and spanning different disciplines. The Eclectic Framework integrates factors shaping the demand for entrepreneurship on the one hand, with those influencing the supply of entrepreneurs on the other hand. It also creates insight into the role of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/erasmus+university+rotterdam.html"><![CDATA[Erasmus University Rotterdam]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fund Liquidation, Self-Selection and Look-Ahead Bias in the Hedge Fund Industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=133376]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A wide range of empirical biases hampers hedge fund databases. This paper focuses upon survival-related biases and disentangles look-ahead biases due to self-selection of funds and due to fund termination. Self-selection arises because funds voluntarily report their information to data vendors and may decide to stop doing so. By extending...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Coordination in a Supply Chain for Bulk Chemicals]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=164662]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A chemical plant in The Netherlands uses large annual supplies of a bulk chemical. A number of suppliers deliver their parcels from overseas by short sea vessel to a transshipment point where they are stored using a tank farm. Transportation from the transshipment point to the plant takes place by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Parameterization of Fast and Accurate Simulations for Complex Supply Networks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=164669]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A chemical plant in The Netherlands uses large annual supplies of a bulk chemical. A number of suppliers deliver their parcels from overseas by short sea vessel to a transshipment point where they are stored using a tank farm. Transportation from the transshipment point to the plant takes place by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reverse Logistics - Capturing Value in the Extended Supply Chain]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=134433]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Product flows in today's supply chains do not end once they have reached the customer. Many products lead a second and even third or fourth life after having accomplished their original task at their first customer. Consequently, a product may generate revenues multiple times, rather than a single time. Capturing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/erasmus+university+rotterdam.html"><![CDATA[Erasmus University Rotterdam]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=135528]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Existing studies show a positive relationship between business development and conventional human capital as measured by formal education attainment, previous business experience and prior management experience. This paper explores whether illegal entrepreneurship experience IEE, an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of existing legal...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/human+resources.html"><![CDATA[Human Resources]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Weighted Sums of Subexponential Random Variables and Asymptotic Dependence Between Returns on Reinsurance Equities]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=131912]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The spate of very large insurance claims coupled with the recent creeping stock market decline has eroded the financial wealth of many reinsurance companies. This paper provides probabilistic arguments as to why the reinsurance industry as a whole fared so badly. The total returns on the assets and liabilities, and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownership Across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=134208]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper deals with the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on the level of business ownership across countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as their relevance for entrepreneurship. Second, cross-sectional regression analysis using data for three separate years in twenty Western countries and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Perceptions About the ISO 9000 (2000) Quality System Standard Revision and Its Value: The Dutch Experience]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=136604]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The aim of the research reported in this paper is to assess the relative value of the 2000 version of the ISO 9000 series of quality management system standards in comparison to the 1994 version. 773 organizations which have all been certified to the ISO 9000 standard were surveyed (a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/tqm%252fsix+sigma%252fiso+9000.html"><![CDATA[Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Longevity in Services: The Case of the Dutch Warehousing Companies 1600-2000]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper explores the factors that determine the longevity of firms. Five central factors were distilled from the literature: position in the supply chain, the nature of the technology used, structure, culture, and financial policy. It makes an extensive case-study of the Dutch storage company Royal Pakhoed and its predecessors...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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