social media Jan H. Kietzmann *‚ Kristopher Hermkens‚ Ian P. McCarthy‚ Bruno S. Silvestre Segal Graduate School of Business‚ Simon Fraser University‚ 500 Granville Street‚ Vancouver‚ BC V6C 1W6‚ Canada KEYWORDS Social media; Social networks; Web 2.0; User-generated content; Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; YouTube Abstract Traditionally‚ consumers used the Internet to simply expend content: they read it‚ they watched it‚ and they used it to buy products and services. Increasingly‚ however
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demand uncertainty due to quick response is low. Submitted: February 9‚ 2012. Keywords: dual sourcing‚ double marginalization‚ supplier competition. 1. Introduction In many industries such as apparel or electronics‚ the duration of a product in the point of sales has been reduced significantly in recent times. For example‚ the collection-based cycle in apparel‚ where firms launched Fall-Winter and Spring-Summer product catalogues‚ has evolved into a continuous release of products in the store which
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PROPERTY DIAGRAMS OF PURE SUBSTANCES SUBJECT : ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS CONTENTS: * Phase and pure substance * Properties of a substance * P-V diagram for a pure substance * P-T diagram for a pure substance * P-V-T surface * T-S diagram for a pure substance * h-s diagram for a pure substance Thermodynamic Properties * Characteristics by which physical properties of system may be described. e.g. pressure‚ volume‚ temperature‚ entropy‚ enthalpy etc
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5 Design Decision Styles. What’s Yours? By Jared M. Spool Originally published: Jan 21‚ 2009 In the early days of e-commerce‚ we studied how seasoned hiking customers bought hiking boots online. Two sites in our study‚ L.L. Bean and REI‚ both sold virtually identical boots at the same price with practically the same marketing copy. Yet the customers we studied were far more likely to buy the boots on the REI site than on the L.L. Bean site. Why? Because the product pictures on the REI site showed
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The !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert The !Kung Bushmen of Botswana inhabit the semi-arid northwest region of the Kalahari Desert. Their average annual rainfall is poor‚ only six to nine inches a year. Field work for this article written by Richard B. Lee‚ was done in the Dobe area‚ which is a line of eight permanent waterholes. The Dobe area has a population of 466 Bushmen. This includes 379 permanent residents living in independent camps or associated with Bantu cattle posts‚ as well
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Reverend John Hale A scholar from Beverly‚ Reverend Hale comes to Salem on Reverend Parris ’ request to investigate supernatural causes for Betty Parris ’ suspicious illness and thus instigates the rumors of witchcraft. Hale approaches the situation precisely and intellectually‚ believing that he can define the supernatural in definitive terms. Despite his early enthusiasm for discerning the presence of witchcraft in Salem‚ Hale soon grows disillusioned with the witchcraft accusations that abound
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Problem Solutions 1. Use the following business rules to create a Crow’s Foot ERD. Write all appropriate connectivity’s and cardinalities in the ERD. 1.a. A department employs many employees‚ but each employee is employed by one department. 1.b. Some employees‚ known as “rovers‚” are not assigned to any department. 1.c. A division operates many departments‚ but each department is operated by one division. 1.d. An employee may be assigned many projects‚ and a project may have many employees
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Should the desert bloom? The Arizona Desert is situated on the Sun Belt in the West United States has attracted migrants from all over the USA. Cities such as Phoenix‚ Las Vegas and Tucson have built and are continuing to spread. This has all been made possible because of one vital resource – the Colorado River. The question is should the desert have been changed to provide a pleasant place for to live? People are so keen to move to Phoenix because there are so many job opportunities in hi – tech
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Question 1 (5 points) 1. Which of the following may lead to vertical integration? a) Technological interdependencies b) Reduced search and bargaining cost c) The hold-up problem d) All of the above Question 2 (5 points) Effective collusion generally is more difficult when a) the number of oligopolistic firms involved decreases b) the number of oligopolistic firms involved increases c) when customer orders are small‚ frequent‚ and received on a regular basis as compared
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Manar Persuasive Essay Chris Lauture Period 2‚ Ms. Vough Going through life what would you do if your child had a disease or some sort of injury during birth? If so what would you do to save it or help your infant out? Well this has happened to a little girl by the name of Manar. On February 19‚ 2005‚ 10-month-old Manar underwent a successful 13-hour surgery in Egypt. The under developed conjoined twin‚ Islam‚ was attached to Manar’s head and was facing upward. Islam
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