www.ccsenet.org/ijms International Journal of Marketing Studies Vol. 4‚ No. 3; June 2012 The Effect of Alternative Market Orientation Strategies on Firm Performance Eric T. Micheels (Corresponding author) Assisstant Professor‚ Department of Bioresource Policy‚ Business & Economics University of Saskatchewan‚ Canada E-mail: etm550@mail.usask.ca Hamish Gow Professor of Agribusiness‚ College of Business‚ Massey University‚ New Zealand E-mail: h.r.gow@massey.ac.nz Received: February 6‚ 2012 doi:10
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(National…) Many of the drugs do not have immediate side effects but can have long term effects caused by overmedicating. Overmedicating can be caused by intentionally or unintentionally taking beyond the prescribed amount‚ or by a doctor giving out a prescription on top of other medication. Many people are even given prescriptions
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personal theoretical orientation to counseling is Cognitive-Behavioral therapy. Cognitive-Behavioral therapy helps the client to uncover and alter distortions of thought or perceptions which may be causing or prolonging psychological distress. The theoretical foundations of CBT are essentially those of the behavioral and cognitive approaches. CBT leads to a clear‚ persuasive‚ and evidence-based description of how normal and abnormal behavior develops and changes (Kramer 293). The term “cognitive-behavioral
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Time Orientation Winston Churchill‚ a famous author and politician‚ once said a simple quote I found to be astonishing; Churchill stated “If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future.” At one point in life we are almost always focused on one time zone or another either the past‚ the present or the future. I find almost always that these times zones can either be in sync or incompatible. Yes‚ there may be positive aspects to the past‚ the present or the
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Employee Orientation and Training Programs Orientation is a meeting or the formal activity that specifically prepares employees for working in particular organization and working environment. An orientation meeting can be formal‚ with several new hires in a conference room‚ or it can be informal‚ with the supervisor or another employee on a one-on-one basis. An orientation for new employees can be a advantage to both the employee and the employers. Some of those advantages include the following;
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This essay will look into sexual orientation. This essay will identify and define sexual orientation focusing on homosexuality. It will further provide an overview of homosexuality and a summary. I will discuss my initial opinions‚ attitudes‚ biases and assumptions about sexual orientation and demonstrate how my awareness of this element of diversity increased throughout the module. I will further address how this awareness will impact my ability to counsel more competently‚ followed by a conclusion
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of the First World War. The causes are much more complex than those of the Second World War and include short‚ intermediate and long term factors that all ended to cause the July Days in 1914. These factors include militarism‚ nationalism‚ imperialism‚ the alliance system‚ and industrialization as the long term causes. The intermediate causes included the crises in the Balkans and the short-term trigger for the war was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the Sarajevo‚ the heir to
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Cultural Orientation After testing myself on culture orientation I found that assessment was for the most part accurate. For a couple of sections I had answered questions that had categorized me into two different orientations. For an example‚ I had chosen the letter choice B for question number one‚ which indicated a collectivist orientation‚ and then for question number two I had chosen letter choice A‚ which indicated a individualist orientation. In an individualist culture‚ a person is held
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experienced an intercultural encounter in the movie of “Gung Ho”. Gung Ho is a movie that tells about the clash of cultures after a certain group of Japanese work together with American in order to reopen a car factory in a small town of Pennsylvania‚ America. The movie basically tells about the negative stereotypes and rivalry that are existed between those two groups while they are working together. In this paper‚ I want to address the issues on Gung Ho’s movie about the stereotypes and power distance
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Long and Short Term Causes of World War 1 – Essay The quote embodied within the name Woodrow Wilson (U.S. President 1913-21) is that World War 1 (WW1 - 1914-1918) was ‘the war to end all war’. Indeed in its time‚ WW1 seemed as the war of the century. As a war felt throughout Europe and with the intervention of other non-European countries‚ it had various causes. These sparks that let off up to the start of the war are nationalism‚ imperialism‚ militarism‚ the alliances at the time and the murder
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