International Journal of Hospitality Management 31 (2012) 119–129 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect International Journal of Hospitality Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ijhosman Total quality management‚ market orientation and hotel performance: The moderating effects of external environmental factors Cheng-Hua Wang a ‚ Kuan-Yu Chen b ‚ Shiu-Chun Chen a‚∗ a b Graduate School of Business and Operations Management‚ Chang Jung Christian University‚ Taiwan
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INTERNAL RESEARCH MEMO Date: September 12‚ 2014 Preparer: ABC Reviewer: Jack Client: Ann RE: Dependency Exemption Facts: Ann and Jeff Burns divorced in 2011 when their daughter Kim was three and Ann filed an agreement that allowed Jeff to take a dependency exemption for Kim as long as he continued to provide child support payments. Last year Ann wished to take the dependency exemption for two reasons. First‚ she has provided more than half of the cost of raising Kim. Second‚ the agreement
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research cannot be generalized to the rest of the world’s population. However‚ you should consider two points before making reference to this sample generalisation problem. First‚ the sample generalisation problem is unlikely to threaten the external validity of research investigating basic cognitive and perceptual processes such as
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COMPONENTS OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE Even though reciprocating internal combustion engines look quite sim¬ple‚ they are highly complex machines. There are hundreds of compo¬nents which have to perform their functions satisfactorily to produce out¬put power. The main components of the IC engine and their functions are described below. • Cylinder Block: The cylinder block is the main supporting structure for the various components. The cylinder of a multi-cylinder engine is cast as a single
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Internal Combustion Engines for the Future Horst Schulte‚ Martin Wirth Ford Motor Company ABSTRACT Future internal combustion engines for light duty applications will have to cope with a very complex set of customer‚ legal and business requirements. Customers are expecting further improvements in durability‚ reliability‚ drivability‚ fuel economy‚ and cost of ownership. Legal requirements are focused on significant emission and fuel consumption reductions. Additional manufacturing cost reductions
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In Nicomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle contends that in order to unveil the human good we must first understand the true function of a human. He claims then that the human function is achieved through rational activity‚ and thus our good is activity performed well (which he understands as being in harmony with virtue). Simply put‚ according to Aristotle‚ if something has a function then the good of that thing depends on its proper function; the same way a hammer is not good if it does not properly hammer
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Emotions in Intercultural Communication 1 Emotion and Intercultural Communication David Matsumoto San Francisco State University Seung Hee Yoo Yale University Jeffery A. LeRoux San Francisco State University To appear in Helga Kotthoff and Helen Spencer-Oatley (eds.)‚ Handbook of Applied Linguistics‚ Volume 7: Intercultural Communication. Mouton – de Gruyter Publishers. Keywords: Emotion‚ emotion regulation‚ openness‚ flexibility‚ critical thinking‚ intercultural communication‚ intercultural
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Cornell Hospitality Quarterly http://cqx.sagepub.com/ Hotel Guests ’ Responses to Service Recovery: How Loyalty Influences Guest Behavior Pablo Zoghbi-Manrique-de-Lara‚ Miguel A. Suárez-Acosta and Teresa Aguiar-Quintana Cornell Hospitality Quarterly published online 28 November 2013 DOI: 10.1177/1938965513513348 The online version of this article can be found at: http://cqx.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/11/27/1938965513513348 A more recent version of this article was published on - Mar
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Journal of Applied Psychology 1989‚ m 74‚ No‚ 3‚478-494 Copyright 1989 by the American Psychological Association‚ Inc. 0021-9010/89/S00.75 Validity of Personnel Decisions: A Conceptual Analysis of the Inferential and Evidential Bases John F. Binning Gerald V. Barrett Illinois State University University of Akron Issues common to both the process of building psychological theories and validating personnel decisions are examined. Inferences linking psychological constructs and
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0265-671X.htm IJQRM 23‚9 The impact of total quality management on innovation Findings from a developing country Dinh Thai Hoang and Barbara Igel School of Management‚ Asian Institute of Technology‚ Klong Luang‚ Pathumthani‚ Thailand‚ and 1092 Received February 2005 Revised August 2005 Tritos Laosirihongthong Industrial Engineering Department‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ Thammasat University
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