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      <title>Term 2 Business Revision Sheet</title>
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      <title>Project Brief</title>
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      <title>Promoting Empathy in Preschool Children</title>
      <description><![CDATA[What is Empathy? Why Teach Children to Have Empathy? Ways to Promote Empathy. Develop Problem Solving Skills and Practice Positive Parenting. Provide an Environment Conducive to Positive Behavior. ]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[What is Empathy? Why Teach Children to Have Empathy? Ways to Promote Empathy. Develop Problem Solving Skills and Practice Positive Parenting. Provide an Environment Conducive to Positive Behavior. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:45:55 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>The Benefits Emotional Intelligence in Companies</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This purpose of this capstone proposal is to demonstrate the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace. The capstone will discuss hiring emotionally intelligent people, evaluating leaders ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This purpose of this capstone proposal is to demonstrate the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace. The capstone will discuss hiring emotionally intelligent people, evaluating leaders in companies with respect to how their level of emotional intelligence affects the rest of the organization, and training and continuing development of emotional intelligence skills in the workplace. It will determine if emotional intelligence is important enough for a company to increase the evaluation of emotional intelligence in prospective employees. The information collected in this study will be obtained from employees and students at the Sturm College of Law and University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law. The interviewees for this paper are either administrators in the Career Services Offices, current students or recent graduates. All of the information has been done to provide different perspectives on emotional intelligence in the workplace.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Instructions for Team&#45;Building Activities</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Please read these instructions carefully to help you complete the team- building activities  successfully.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:21:27 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>The Incentive for Vertical Integration</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This paper evaluates the incentive of firms to vertically integrate in a simple 2X2 Bertrand model of two substitutes that are each comprised of two complementary components. It confirms that all ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This paper evaluates the incentive of firms to vertically integrate in a simple 2X2 Bertrand model of two substitutes that are each comprised of two complementary components. It confirms that all prices fall as a result of a vertical merger. Further, we find that, when the composite goods are poor substitutes, producers of complementary components are better off after integration. Thus, at equilibrium, each pair of complementary goods is produced by a single firm (parallel vertical integration). In contrast, when the composite goods are close substitutes, vertical integration reduces profits of the merging firms and is therefore undesirable. Thus, at equilibrium, all four products are produced by independent firms (independent ownership). The reason for the change in the direction of the incentive to merge is that, as the composite goods become closer substitutes, competition between them reduces prices (in comparison to full monopoly) thereby eliminating the usefulness of a vertical merger in accomplishing the same price effect. We also find that, for intermediate levels of substitution, firms producing complementary components prefer to merge only if the substitute good is produced by an integrated firm. Thus, for intermediate levels of substitution, both parallel vertical integration and independent ownership are equilibria. When the demand system is symmetric, total surplus is higher in parallel vertical integration, for all degrees of substitution among the products, even for the case when the goods are close substitutes and parallel vertical integration is not the equilibrium outcome. Thus, the market provides less vertical integration than is optimal from a social surplus maximizing point of view.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Vertical Integration  and Outsourcing: the Benefits of Operational Flexibility</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The main aim of the paper is to highlight the relation between flexibility and outsourcing. To this purpose, we go through the selection of the optimal degree of vertical disintegration of a flexible ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The main aim of the paper is to highlight the relation between flexibility and outsourcing. To this purpose, we go through the selection of the optimal degree of vertical disintegration of a flexible firm which operates in adynamic uncertain environment. The enterprise we model is defined flexible since it can switch from a certain a mount of disintegration to vertical integration andviceversa. This means that the firm never loses its vertical control, i.e. the ability to produce all inputs even when it buys it in the market. This sort of flexibility makes for results which are somehow contrary to the Industrial Organization recent literature and closer to the Operations Research results. In this sense we provide abridge between the two approaches and rescue Industrial Organization from counterintuitive conclusions.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Vertical integration, disintegration and ability to export</title>
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      <title>From vertical integration to vertical coordination to achieve professional customer competence &#45; a pre study</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A great number of road building and construction projects exceed their cost estimate; fail to meet agreed quality standards, and ends in judicial disputes related to technical solutions, ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A great number of road building and construction projects exceed their cost estimate; fail to meet agreed quality standards, and ends in judicial disputes related to technical solutions, responsibility and payment. A central issue is the relationship between buyer and contractor. Explaining factors may be found in the lack of knowledge about how different organisational approaches affect procurement. This study will illuminate organisational fit to co-ordinate complex projects, with the &#171;contingency theory&#187; as a theoretical frame of reference.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>VERTICAL INTEGRATION AND DISTANCE TO FRONTIER</title>
      <description><![CDATA[We construct a model where the equilibrium organization of firms changes as an economy approaches the world technology frontier. In vertically integrated firms, owners (managers) have to spend time ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[We construct a model where the equilibrium organization of firms changes as an economy approaches the world technology frontier. In vertically integrated firms, owners (managers) have to spend time both on production and innovation activities, and this creates managerial overload, and discourages innovation. Outsourcing of some production activities mitigates the managerial overload, but creates a holdup problem, causing some of the rents of the owners to be dissipated to the supplier. Far from the technology frontier, imitation activities are more important, and vertical integration is preferred. Closer to the frontier, the value of innovation increases, encouraging outsourcing.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF VERTICAL INTEGRATION</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Vertical integration is an enduring topic for economics. The structure-conduct- performance perspective of the 1950s and 1960s viewed vertical integration suspiciously, worrying about exclusionary ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Vertical integration is an enduring topic for economics. The structure-conduct- performance perspective of the 1950s and 1960s viewed vertical integration suspiciously, worrying about exclusionary practices that foreclose competitors and leverage monopoly from one market to another. The Chicago School of the 1960s and 1970s rebutted these concerns by pointing out the weak microeconomic foundations of leverage theory, and explaining why vertical integration increases economic efficiency. Transaction Cost Economics of the 1970s and 1980s staked a middle ground, identifying new efficiency rationales for vertical integration, while cautioning that firms with market power may have strategic goals poorly aligned with consumer welfare (Williamson, 1975; 1985). Most recently, a new literature on vertical foreclosure (a.k.a. Post-Chicago Economics) applied game-theoretic tools to develop new theories of strategic vertical integration and identify circumstances in which vertical integration alters industry conduct to the detriment of competitors and consumers. The rich intellectual history of industrial organization economics thus reveals assorted approaches to the topic.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Vertical integration: a version of voluntary and community sector collaboration in delivering services for children, young people and families</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The purpose of this report is to: 
*consider the meaning of vertical  integration
*outline the potential pros and cons of vertical integration  in the delivery of services to children, ...]]></description>
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*consider the meaning of vertical  integration<br />
*outline the potential pros and cons of vertical integration  in the delivery of services to children, young people and families by VCS organisations<br />
*review the practical issues raised in developing such collaboration<br />
*provide a brief case study of the application<br />
*offer some conclusions and recommendations for general discussion at a seminar. <br />
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This report is based on a wide range of semi-structured interviews and discussions with diverse stakeholders. As an approach, vertical integration is at an early stage of development within the voluntary and community sector. Examples of vertical integration are limited. This report is necessarily an exploratory study to be further developed in the light of subsequent discussions.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Vertical Integration Between Registries and Registrars &#45; The Economic Pros and Cons</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Vertical Integration Between Registries and Registrars - The Economic Pros and Cons]]></description>
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      <title>Vertical Integration and Technology: Theory and Evidence</title>
      <description><![CDATA[We study the determinants of vertical integration. We first derive an umber of predictions regarding the relationship between technology intensity and vertical integration from a simple incomplete ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[We study the determinants of vertical integration. We first derive an umber of predictions regarding the relationship between technology intensity and vertical integration from a simple incomplete contracts model. Then, we investigate these predictions using plant-level data for the UK manufacturing sector. Most importantly, and consistent with the theoretical predictions, we find that the technology in t en- sityofdownstream (producer) industries are positively correlated with the likelihood of integration whereas the intensity of upstream (supplier) industries are negatively correlated with it. Also consistent with theory, both correlations are stronger when the supplying industry accounts fora large fraction of the producer's costs.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>VERTICAL INTEGRATION</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This chapter reviews alternative economic theories of vertical integration and the empirical literature that examines the power of alternative theories to explain the incidence of vertical ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This chapter reviews alternative economic theories of vertical integration and the empirical literature that examines the power of alternative theories to explain the incidence of vertical integration in practice. Neoclassical theories of vertical integration are discussed first. These theories turn on efforts of firms either to mitigate inefficiencies caused by market power at one or more levels of the vertical chain or to create or enhance market power at one of both levels. Organizational theories of vertical integration that focus on incomplete contracts, asset specificity, information imperfections, opportunistic and the costs of internal organization are discussed next. These theories focus on efforts by firms to mitigate transactions costs and various contractual hazards that may arise with bilateral contracts by choosing among alternative organizational and contractual governance arrangements that can reduce these costs. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the empirical literature that has examined theories of vertical integration that fall in both categories.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>The need to know and to understand in Maslow&#39;s basic needs hierarchy</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that the Maslow's hierarchy of basic needs has been vastly applied in literatures, a majority of resources has neglected to take the need to know and to understand into account. ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Despite the fact that the Maslow's hierarchy of basic needs has been vastly applied in literatures, a majority of resources has neglected to take the need to know and to understand into account. Moreover, there is a wide disagreement in the rest of resources in situation of that need. This article attempts to show that (1) Maslow has had faith in that need as a basic need; and (2) even though Maslow has not explicitly mentioned the situation of this need in his hierarchy, it is possible to find its situation through implications of Maslow's writing and other researchers' findings.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>ABRAHAM MASLOW&#39;S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS: A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE</title>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the most commonly adopted theories regarding human needs, motivation, and learning is Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The western world in particular has based much of its work in ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the most commonly adopted theories regarding human needs, motivation, and learning is Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The western world in particular has based much of its work in educational, business, and motivational theories on the assumptions that Maslow began developing in the late 1950's and continued until his death in 1970. Ewart Woolridge goes so far as to call Maslow the "high priest" of needs and motivation and his theories are widely accepted and used. His theory is attractive, according to Woolridge, because it "provides a practical and understandable picture" of needs theory.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Introduction to Regression Analysis</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This course provides an introduction to the theory, methods, and practice of regression analysis. The goals are to provide students with the skills that are necessary to: (1) read, understand, and ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This course provides an introduction to the theory, methods, and practice of regression analysis. The goals are to provide students with the skills that are necessary to: (1) read, understand, and evaluate the professional literature that uses regression analysis; (2) design and carry out studies that employ regression techniques for testing substantive theories; and (3) prepare to learn about more advanced statistical procedures. The course will not dwell on statistical theory, but it will also not take a superficial approach. Instead, it will focus on: The utility of regression analysis for evaluating empirical relationships between variables as a critical component of the theory-testing process. We will thoroughly cover the basic elements of the regression model and the development of the regression estimators. We will see that this model depends very heavily on several assumptions. Therefore, we will examine these assumptions in detail, considering why they are necessary, whether they are valid in practical research situations, and the consequences of violating them in particular applications of the regression techniques. These formal, analytic treatments will be counterbalanced by the use of frequent substantive examples and class exercises. Again, the overall course objective is not to turn you into a statistician- instead, the aim is to maximize your research skills as a political scientist.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Robust Regression Analysis: Some Popular Statistical Package Options</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Robust regression analysis provides an alternative to a least squares regression model when fundamental assumptions are unfulfilled by the nature of the data. When the analyst estimates his ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Robust regression analysis provides an alternative to a least squares regression model when fundamental assumptions are unfulfilled by the nature of the data. When the analyst estimates his statistical regression models and tests his assumptions, he frequently finds that the assumptions are substantially violated. Sometimes the analyst can transform his variables to conform to those assumptions. Often, however, a transformation will not eliminate or attenuate the leverage of influential outliers that bias the prediction and distort the significance of parameter estimates. Under these circumstances, robust regression that is resistant to the influence of outliers may be the only reasonable recourse. In this article, some robust regression options within popular statistical packages -including SAS9.0, STATA7, S-PLUS6.1, E-Views, LIMDEP8 --are considered.]]></content:encoded>
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