Academy of Management Review 2006‚ Vol. 31‚ No. 1‚ 132–152. ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION AND THE ROLE OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE THEORY OF THE ENTREPRENEUR JEFFERY S. MCMULLEN Baylor University DEAN A. SHEPHERD Indiana University By considering the amount of uncertainty perceived and the willingness to bear uncertainty concomitantly‚ we provide a more complete conceptual model of entrepreneurial action that allows for examination of entrepreneurial action at the individual level of analysis while remaining consistent
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successfully preserved its colonial Spanish heritage in town development. In May 17‚ 2000‚ Pila town center was declared a National Historical Landmark as was its church in July 9‚ 2002 was declared a Diocesan Shrine of Saint Anthony. Pila is the only place recognized by state and church as a historical site. Currently‚ Pila’s primary source of tourism is educational tours for its ancestral homes‚ town hall and plaza as well as the tourism that the devotees of the Parish Church of Saint Anthony of
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IGNOU4Ublog.com TS-1: FOUNDATION COURSE IN TOURISM (TUTOR MARKED ASSIGNMENT) Course Code: TS-1 /Programme: BTS / Assignment Code: TS-1/TMA/2012-13 ------------------------------------------------- Total Marks: 100 PART-I 1. What are the threats and obstacles to tourism in India? (Marks:25) Answer: Tourism industry is one of the booming industries that bring in knowledge‚ social development and economic growth. “Incredible India” a tourism campaign by the Indian government and the information
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Department of Informatics 1 University of Pretoria INF788 INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT Version 8 2013 Lecture Notes (ERP) Mr P van Deventer Dept of Informatics University of Pretoria‚ South Africa Tel +27 12 420 5219 email: phil.vandeventer@up.ac.za Dr Johan van Loggerenberg Dept of Informatics University of Pretoria‚ South Africa Tel +27 12 420 3013 Cell +27 82 452 1867 email: johan.vl@up.ac.za Note that these slides are copyright protected and may only be used for
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Health Tourism A Boon or Curse? What is it? Medical tourism (also called medical travel‚ health tourism or global health care) is a term initially coined by travel agencies and themass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of traveling across international borders to obtain health care. Such services typically include elective procedures as well as complex specialized surgeriessuch as joint replacement (knee/hip)‚ cardiac surgery‚ dental surgery‚ and cosmetic surgeries. However‚ virtually
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Introduction Spa development in Tourism Industry Tourism as a tertiary economic activity gives more and more possibilities for countries to compete with each other in various tourist products and destination. New forms of travel‚ new tourist products and tourist destinations are the new facts of contemporary global tourism industry. Among the attractive tourist destination‚ spas get great significance and development of spa and wellness tourism is becoming an imperative for many countries that
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TOPIC:THE EXOTIC TOURISM IN INDIA WHAT IS TOURISM? Before hitting the target of tourism in india‚let us first know what do we mean by TOURISM.(international).Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure‚ or business purposes.What the WTO(World Tourism Organisation) tells is that Tourism is people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes".Now this can be considered as an exact definition
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Some of mans greatest accomplishments have occurred in space‚ such as the moon landing. Space travel not only provides the delightful experience‚ but it also helps us to better our technology as the year’s progress. Although these are positive aspects of space travel‚ there are negative aspects that strongly linger‚ making space travel not so promising. As you may know‚ funding for space travel has cost the people in our society a great deal of money. The government has managed to put the
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Technology and tourism Anna Baines The author Anna Baines is a freelance journalist. Abstract The travel and tourism industry is starting to exploit technology. This is going to change the nature of the services offered‚ and the nature of work within the industry. Employers and employees may have different perceptions about the likely benefits of technology. Discusses the changes at the “higher” and “lower” organisational levels and suggests that the industry is only partially prepared for the
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data and enables end-to-end and a single interface for the customer The Operating Model involves a commitment to how the company will operate Enterprise Architecture This is the organizing logic for business processes and IT infrastructure which reflects the integration and standardization requirements of the company’s operating model. The Enterprise Architecture provides a long term view of a company’s process‚ systems‚ and technologies in order to build long term sustainable capabilities.
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