A comparison of building rating systems: Leed‚ Green Star‚ BREEAM. A proposal to integrate Biomimicry into Green Star Rating 1.Introduction In the last two decades the western society has gained a greater commitment towards sustainable infrastructure due to the acknowledgment that the sector should not continue to operate “business as usual” in a fashion of neoclassical economics that promotes profit making and the intensive use of natural reserves without internalizing ecological damage.
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DRAFT Mediating Cultures DRAFT DRAFT Mediating Cultures Parenting in Intercultural Contexts Edited by Alberto González and Tina M. Harris LEXINGTON BOOKS Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Plymouth‚ UK DRAFT Published by Lexington Books A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group‚ Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard‚ Suite 200‚ Lanham‚ Maryland 20706 www.rowman.com 10 Thornbury Road‚ Plymouth PL6 7PP‚ United Kingdom Copyright © 2013 by Lexington Books
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341 AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION v RICH and Others 5 SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES — EQUITY DIVISION AUSTIN J 10 1‚ 18 November 2002‚ 24 February 2003 — Sydney [2003] NSWSC 85 15 20 25 30 Directors — Duties — Non-executive chairman of directors — Statutory duty of care — Responsibilities — Usual practice of chairmen of listed Australian companies — Duty to keep informed — (CTH) Corporations Act 2001 s 180(1)(b). Words and phrases — “responsibilities within the corporation”
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UNIT 1 Objectives UNDERSTANDING GROUPS Understanding Groups After going through this unit‚ you should be able to: • understand what is a group and why study groups • appreciate the characteristic features of primary and secondary groups • appreciate the complementarity of group and the individual • understand the nature of group influences. Structure 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 Introduction Why study groups The Description and Nature of Groups The Nature of Constraints
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Level 5 Leadership Definition: A level 5 leader [L5L] starts with the right people and focuses on the greater good of the organization. This leader has a great deal of humility and tackles the hard truths in order to achieve success for the organization (Satterlee‚ 2013‚ p. 112). Summary: The article Move your organization from good to great chronicles the journey undertaken by Georgetown University Hospital [GUH] to implement the L5L principles. This school of thought first focuses on the who
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1352-7606.htm Cross-cultural management in China Keyong Dong School of Public Administration‚ Renmin University of China‚ Beijing‚ China‚ and Cross-cultural management in China 223 Ying Liu Institute of Organization and Human Resource‚ School of Public Administration‚ Renmin University of China‚ Beijing‚ China Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to: summarize the major research
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Halmstad University 2010 Halmstad University School of Business and Engineering Bachelor Degree EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY The example of France‚ Spain and Sweden Marketing dissertation: 15 ECTS 18th of October 2010 Authors: Adriana Corral Alonso & Daphné Lapourré Supervisor: Jean-Charles Languilaire 1 Halmstad University 2010 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We desire to express our gratitude toward all people who have contributed to our thesis. We are willing to thank
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Capitulo 7 Pag 141 Roma republican institutions‚ designed for a city-state‚ proved incapable of coping with the problems created by the conquest of a world empire. Invincible against foreign enemies‚ the Republic collapsed from within. But after Octavian’s brilliant statesmanship brought order out of chaos‚ Rome entered its golden age under the rule of emperors. For more than two hundred years‚ from 27 B.C.to A.D. 180‚ the Mediterranean world enjoyed unparalleled peace and stability. The Roman
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Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 28: 935–955 (2007) Published online 22 March 2007 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/smj.615 Received 5 July 2005; Final revision received 23 October 2006 WHAT IS STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT‚ REALLY? INDUCTIVE DERIVATION OF A CONSENSUS DEFINITION OF THE FIELD RAJIV NAG‚1 * DONALD C. HAMBRICK2 and MING-JER CHEN3 1 Sam Walton College of Business‚ University of Arkansas‚ Fayetteville‚ Arkansas‚ U.S.A. 2 Smeal College of Business
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Robblee‚ M.B. ( 1995). Wind damage effects of Hurricane Andrew on mangrove communities along the southwest coast of Florida‚ USA Duke‚ N.C.‚ Ball‚ M.C.‚ & Ellison‚ J.C. (1998). Factors influencing biodiversity and distributional gradients in mangroves Dunphy‚ B. K.‚ Murphy‚ P. G.‚ & Lugo‚ A. E. (2000). The tendency for trees to be multiple stemmed in tropical and subtropical dry forests: studies of Guanica forest‚ Puerto Rico. Dunson‚ W. A. (1970). Some aspects of electrolyte and water balance in three
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