In last few years there has been much concern and debate with regards to the approaches taken by the UK government for the redevelopment of the National Health Service NHS. Taking the viewpoint that Information Technology will provide all of the solutions for modernising a predominantly paper based domain, has...
Marketing researchers have attached the term value to a number of concepts. It is unclear if, in all cases, there is an underlying and unifying meta-concept of value, or If the word value is being stretched to cover disparate concepts. On the other hand, it is quite clear that, in...
This paper explains the relationship between national context, trust, and the nature and quality of inter- and intra-firm relations, comparing the Japanese and German business systems, with less regulated alternatives. The social operation of trust networks both within and between firms in contrasting social systems of production is reevaluated, and...
Conflict resolution is an important part of many intelligent systems such as production systems, planning tools and cognitive architectures. For example, the ACT-R cognitive architectire uses a powerful conflict resolution theory that allowed for modelling many characteristics of human decision making. The results of more recent works, however, pointed to...
This paper examines cost and profit efficiency of large banking firms by defining a common European frontier over the period immediately following the completion of the Single Market Programme in 1992. Despite a slight increase in cost efficiency, country specific characteristics appear to play important roles in the explanation of...
This paper attempts to differentiate among the theories of corporate hedging by using treasury disclosures in the 1995 annual reports of the largest 400 UK companies and data collected via a survey to corporate treasurers. Univariate and multivariate logit tests indicate that firms with tax loss carry forwards, higher gearing,...
Retailing, at first sight, appears to be an industry where relational strategies can be exploited. Despite this authors disagree about whether Relationship Marketing is likely to be beneficial across the wide spectrum of retailing activities. This paper seeks to investigate whether a claim for universality can be made or, if...
Assesses the impact of different cultural elements on retailers' entry into new markets; the paper explains some managerial approaches to culture assessments and how sensitivity to them enables retailers to establish a positive market position in the context of foreign customers' acceptance. Some of the key issues addressed in the...
Entrepreneurship in transition countries plays an important role in facilitating the shift from a centrally planned economy towards a market-based economy. Empirical evidence shows that entrepreneurship under transition conditions takes a variety of different forms and enterprises use various distinctive strategies, reflecting the challenging role for private enterprise in these...
This position paper presents arguments for including the properties of processes involved in various approaches to component-based software development in predicting system properties. It discusses how processes impact on system properties and relates the issues rose to standards that already address process and product quality. Although many standards still apply,...
Business Times Malaysia 06-06-2001 IN today's world, e-business is increasingly defining the way business is done around the world. In fact, it is estimated that within the next three years, 60 per cent of Internet users will be outside the U...
THE GRETA BRATBY by Maurice Yawcowar Middlesex University Press, £30, pp. 282, ISBN 9781904750260 £24 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Maurice Yacowar, Emeritus Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Calgary, begins his 'portrait' thus: 'John Bratby was an overachiever who fell short of...
WAYNE, Pa. -- Today, The Keane Organization announced the expansion of its Business Risk Management Solutions BRMS division with the hiring of Ketan "KP" Bhimani as Senior Sales Executive. Bhimani will be responsible for achieving sales targets as well as managing the development of marketing, sales and...
Ray Lewis was an inspirational black community leader who appeared to have a golden touch when it came to tackling under- valued and under-motivated children from the ethnic minorities. A former parish vicar in the East End of London and a junior prison...
New Jersey took an important step this week toward becoming one of the first states with universal health care when lawmakers approved a bill expanding a health insurance program for low-income families. Legislators trimmed funding in many areas of the budget this year after Gov. Corzine prescribed "cold-turkey therapy"...
Britain's universities are becoming increasingly over-reliant on fees from overseas students, a standards watchdog has warned. Peter Williams, head of the Quality Assurance Agency, which monitors standards in universities, said some overseas students believed they just had to pay fees to get a...
A $32.9 billion state budget that cuts government spending by $600 million advanced in the Assembly yesterday morning but stalled in the Senate last night as lawmakers wrangled over pension reforms and funding for school construction. The budget deal that appeared imminent earlier in the week was hung up...
State leaders released details of a proposed $32.9 billion budget agreement yesterday that restores some funding for municipalities and health care, aiming to help property taxpayers and the state's most vulnerable residents. The proposal cuts spending from the budget pitched by Gov. Corzine in February by about $100 million....
Universities lenient on international students who pay full fees *Universities turn blind eye to cheating, reveals whistleblower *Huge rise in number of firsts blamed on 'league table culture' EXCLUSIVE Degree standards in many British universities...
After careful consideration, the CaliforniaCenter for Advanced Dental Studies' CCADS board is excited to announcethat Dr. Ralph Reilly, DMD, has been appointed as a Mentor-SeniorInstructor. "We are thrilled to have Dr. Reilly as a SeniorMentor-Instructor. He absolutely possesses all the qualities we look for.He's a premier clinician and...
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