Firm Reputation and Horizontal Integration∗ Hongbin Cai† Ichiro Obara‡ March 14‚ 2008. Abstract We study effects of horizontal integration on firm reputation. In an environment where customers observe only imperfect signals about firms’ effort/quality choices‚ firms cannot maintain good reputation and earn quality premium forever. Even when firms choose high quality‚ there is always a possibility that a bad signal is observed. Thus‚ firms must give up their quality premium‚ at least temporarily
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Committee on Civil Liberties‚ Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Topic: Integration as a two way of mutual accommodation: With the number of Muslims in Europe growing‚ how can the EU help safeguard their religious freedom and to what extend should the Muslim community assimilate to European values? The recent comments of the European leaders like Merkel and Cameron or ex-leader such as Sarkozy show the change of path on integrating the minorities into the society. Yet‚ this new approach hasn’t been
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a need for clinical integration. Clinical integration is about coordinating the patient’s care across different entities in order to achieve a timely and effective care (). There are three types of integration which is horizontal‚ vertical‚ and virtual integration. The horizontal integration is physicians with group practices either single or multi-specialty (). On the other hand‚ vertical integration is physicians with hospitals through employment. While virtual integration is through healthcare
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The Importance of Mobile Integration in Out of Hospital Healthcare The US healthcare system is known by critics to have enormous costs for patients‚ tax payers‚ and society in general‚ and offers less than impressive health outcomes. Frequently recorded healthcare flaws include lack of access to quality care for many patients‚ billions of dollars wasted due to inefficient or broken delivery models and expensive administration costs; Inadequate efforts to prevent illness and disease; Ineffective acute
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Music therapy is the use of interventions to accomplish individual goals within a therapeutic relationship by a professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.[1] Music therapy is an allied health profession and one of the expressive therapies‚ consisting of a process in which a music therapist uses music and all of its facets—physical‚ emotional‚ mental‚ social‚ aesthetic‚ and spiritual—to help clients improve their physical and mental health. Music therapists primarily help clients
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Right now my degree is set as a General Business degree and I am in the process of eliminating core basic classes so I am not really sure what type of business degree I will be pursuing but I will be talking about my current career for this topic which I am a police officer. I know right now and recently with the news reports‚ cell phone clips‚ and stories from the public about police officers‚ they give all police officers a bad name. In my line of work‚ we are constantly in the public eye and
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the 3D model of the outside‚ such as underground pipe systems and the data behind the model before performing any maintenance work. The integration of BIM and GIS can avoid digging in the ground without clear understanding of the location and size of the underground conditions such as incognizant gas lines‚ which may cause disasters. 3. The approach of integration can be divided into the following stages. 4. Stage 1: Data collection Collect building CAD drawings and GIS datasets from corresponding
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European Integration of Albania Western European Integration Political Science 477 Spring 2013 Research question: How far away is Albania from becoming a member state of European Union? Albania has multiple challenges to achieve the full integrating in the European Union. But‚ there are two major challenges; 1) the economic challenges and 2) the political challenges
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English and International Integration. Viet Nam is a developing country. Like any other countries‚ it tries very hard to promote its economy. And the most effective way to do that is associating with other countries. Viet Nam is now associating with America‚ Philippines‚ China‚ Thailand... These associations have led to the International integration in Viet Nam. However‚ it can only be built by using the international language of the world – English. International integration is a process by which
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This is where Arts Integration comes in. Arts Integration is an approach to teaching that considers how student learn. “The Kennedy Center ArtsEdge Education Network defines arts integration as an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form.” (7) Arts Integration is a hands-on‚ cross curricular way of teaching. Any art form can be combined with any core subject
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