The benchmark of a competent sociology student is not how familiar he is with sociological concepts‚ theories‚ and empirical findings‚ but the ability of sociological imagination. The sociological imagination is a state of mind with which people recognize that their (and those of others) social conditions‚ experiences‚ and ways of understanding the world are placed within larger social‚ cultural‚ and political forces. Essentially‚ the sociological imagination requires that we “look up” and recognize
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Transnational Corporations Review Volume 5‚ Number 2 June 2013 www.tnc-online.net info@tnc-online.net 16-29 Relocating Low-to-Medium Tech Manufacturing Activities to Developing Countries: Empirical Analysis of Taiwanese and South Korean Manufacturing Outsourcing to Bangladesh Md. Mamunur Rashid1and Md. Samim Al-Azad2 Abstract: The aim of this study is to examine the objectives and factors influencing the offshore outsourcing decision of manufacturing firms from emerging countries
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Topic: CONSUMERS’ PERCEPTION ON PRODUCT QUALITY AND BRAND DILUTION ON VARIOUS SEGMENTS OF TOBACCO INDUSTRY IN BANGLADESH - AN EMPIRICAL STUDY TO IDENTIFY THE SCOPE OF IMPROVEMENT FOR BATB Abstract: Now a day’s quality of the products is the primary concern for the customers. Customers value their money and always prefer the quality product. Tobacco industry is a potential industry and its growth is also related with national GDP. About one percent of our GDP is used in consumption of tobacco
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Describe and evaluate contemporary use of personality measurement and testing‚ focusing on issues of reliability and validity‚ using empirical evidence to support your arguments. Personality tests are widely used these days in both professional and informal settings. One may take a personality test online‚ for example; in order to determine how much like a film character they are‚ or they may take one in an employment process or clinical setting. This essay‚ however‚ will only be looking at formal
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an effective framework is designed for managing those internal control failures systematically is critical. This study is a piece of qualitative research and the methodology is a reviews literature for theoretical framework in order to apply an empirical viewpoint of the case of ‘Home at Last’ Credit Union - a typical Microfinance organisation that began with huge enthusiasm but failed with the first four years of its start. Key words: Microfinance‚ Credit Unions‚ Experience‚ Risks‚ Failure‚ Pre-emptive
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A Review of the Empirical Literature on Earnings and Economic Value Added (EVA) in Explaining Stock Market Returns. Which Performance Measure is More Value Relevant in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE)? Dimitrios Maditinos*‚ Željko Šević**‚ and Nikolaos Theriou* *TEI of Kavala‚ Greece‚ Department of Business Administration **University of Greenwich Business School‚ Department of Accounting and Finance Abstract The aim of this study is (a) to present the empirical research to date on earnings
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Explain for which reasons the real wage is expected to be acyclical in the classical model‚ countercyclical in The Keynesian Model and Procyclical in the New Keynesian model. Which model better fits the empirical evidence? Introduction The concept of real wages has increasing significance in the current world. Rising inflation and recession in almost all major economies have led to the importance of studying real wage with respect to prices and economies themselves. Such a study would require
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Space based visual attention is when we attend to a certain area of space. This may be for several reasons (e.g. hearing a noise).In the past 30 years of so there has been much research conducted into this area‚ mostly using lab based computer experiments‚ manipulating cues and targets to see how we react to and process them. One of the earliest and most influential metaphors‚ leading the way for many of the others is that by Posner (1980). Posner (1980) came up with the spotlight metaphor to space
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and cultural structures and science‚ several concepts including but not limited to self-fulfilling prophecy‚ role model‚ manifest‚ role strain‚ unintended consequences and more. Merton’s first work was based around defining the subject matter and method of the sociology of science‚ according to Calhoun (2003). He developed the Merton Thesis‚
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factor such as love‚ a good family‚friends‚ those can define very clearly what is success.One human being cant be recognised as a self content person with out having an inner peace evenif he gets alot of money. So one’s success can be defined as the fullfillment of physical‚psychological‚spiritual and social needs of an individual.so material achievements together cant make a person succeed in life. Luck has got a great significance in getting succeed. Because life is considered to be a game. A game
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