Is the Czech economy a success story?: the case of CzechInvest, the strategic promotion agency in Czech industrial restructuring

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Business development service centres in Italy. An empirical analysis of three regional experiences: Emilia Romagna, Lombardia y Veneto

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Economic Survey of the Caribbean 2010-2011: improving economic prospects amid global recovery

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Economic Survey of the Caribbean 2011-2012: positive growth amidst lingering downside risks

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Promoting corporate social responsibility in small and medium enterprises in the Caribbean: survey results

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Measuring supply chain management practices

Purpose: This paper aims to perform an empirical investigation about the constructs and indicators of the supply chain management practices framework. Design/methodology/approach: The measuring framework proposed is based on a survey that was carried out on 107 Brazilian companies. Statistical techniques were employed to verify, validate, and test the reliability of the constructs and their indicators. To validate this framework principal component analysis and structural equation modeling techniques were used. Findings: In general, previous studies suggest six constructs for measuring the supply chain management practices framework. However, in this study a framework was achieved with four constructs of supply chain management practices, namely, supply chain (SC) integration for production planning and control (PPC) support, information sharing about products and targeting strategies, strategic relationship with customer and supplier, and support customer order. This framework has adequate levels of validity and reliability. Research limitations/implications: The main limitation of this study was that only a small sample of companies in a single sector and country were surveyed, and therefore there needs to be further research considering the special conditions in other countries. Originality/value: This study investigated statistically set indicators to discuss the topic supply chain management practices. The framework obtained has good quality of validity and reliability indicators. Thus, an alternative framework has been added to measure supply chain management practices, which is currently a popular topic in the supply chain mainstream literature. Both defined constructs and the validated indicators can be used in other studies on supply chain management. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

A survey of owner attitudes and experiences in managing diabetic dogs

A survey of the experiences of owners of diabetic dogs was carried out by distributing questionnaires to veterinary clinics in São Paulo, Brazil. A total of 93 dog owners were surveyed over a 4. month period and descriptive statistical analysis, frequency distribution and correlations were performed. In most cases the clinical condition of the dogs had improved following treatment and owners were largely satisfied with veterinary intervention. Injection of neutral protamine hagedorm twice daily was the most commonly prescribed treatment and respondents found this procedure easy to perform, although it did pose some difficulties when the owners were away from their animals. Cost was considered an important factor at the initiation of treatment programs. The information gleaned from this survey, in providing useful insights into the attitudes and experiences of owners of diabetic animals, will contribute to improvements in the treatment and management of such patients. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.

Contabilidad regulatoria, sustentabilidad financiera y gestión mancomunada: temas relevantes en servicios de agua y saneamiento

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Knowledge-based risk management: Survey on Brazilian software development enterprises

A risks management, carried on in an effective way, leads the software development to success and may influence on the organization. The knowledge takes part of such a process as a way to help taking decisions. This research aimed to analyze the use of Knowledge Management techniques to the Risk Management in software projects development and the possible influence on the enterprise revenue. It had, as its main studying subject, Brazilian incubated and graduated software developing enterprises. The chosen research method was the Survey type. Multivariate statistical methods were used for the treatment and analysis of the obtained results, this way identifying the most significant factors, that is, enterprise's achievement constraining factors and those outcome achievement ones. Among the latter we highlight the knowledge methodology, the time of existence of the enterprise, the amount of employees and the knowledge externalization. The results encourage contributing actions to the increasing of financial revenue. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.

Findings of the survey on international classifications in Latin America

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Central America: management of used lubricants in Central America: final report

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The production of statistical data and information in the Caribbean: proposals for increasing efficiency in this sphere

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The statistical infrastructure of Caribbean countries

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Report on the Retrospective Demographic Survey of Guyana (GUYREDEM)

La Encuesta Demografica Retrospectiva de Guyana se llevo a cabo entre los meses de agosto de 1986 y enero de 1987. Su objetivo fue la recopilacion de la informacion demografica mas indispensable para la toma de decisiones, supliendo algunas deficiencias existentes en los registros de estadisticas vitales y en los datos sobre movimientos migratorios. Los datos se recolectaron en un solo ciclo de visitas, que comprendieron una muestra de aproximadamente 8.500 hogares, cubriendo las 10 divisiones administrativas del pais. Se empleo una muestra bietapica, seleccionando en primer lugar el distrito de empadronamiento y en segundo lugar los hogares; el marco de muestreo fue proporcionado por el censo de 1980. El tamano de la muestra se determino considerando los costos y la representatividad para todas las regiones. Se incluyeron modulos especiales sobre mortalidad y migracion internacional. Se acompana cuestionario de la encuesta y otro material utilizado.