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Interpreting, Stephanie Jo Kent
Interpreting, Stephanie Jo Kent
Doctoral Dissertations
What do community interpreting for the Deaf in western societies, conference interpreting for the European Parliament, and language brokering in international management have in common? Academic research and professional training have historically emphasized the linguistic and cognitive challenges of interpreting, neglecting or ignoring the social aspects that structure communication. All forms of interpreting are inherently social; they involve relationships among at least three people and two languages. The contexts explored here, American Sign Language/English interpreting and spoken language interpreting within the European Parliament, show that simultaneous interpreting involves attitudes, norms and values about intercultural communication that overemphasize information and discount …
Hospital Competitive Strategies And Performance Outcomes, Wei Wu
Hospital Competitive Strategies And Performance Outcomes, Wei Wu
Doctoral Dissertations
Hospitals are under increasing pressure to improve performance and healthcare outcomes. The existing literature does not point to a clear conclusion on whether competition can help address the performance challenges of hospitals which lead to improvements in clinical outcomes. Prior research on the effects of hospital competitive strategies usually focuses on one strategy or one type of outcome at a time. As such, there is a dearth of systematical studies on different hospital competitive strategies and their consequent performance outcomes.
The main objective of this dissertation is to examine several hospital competitive strategies and quantitatively validate the implications of each …
Strategic Flexibility In Not-For-Profit Acute Care Hospitals, Donna Fe Jamieson
Strategic Flexibility In Not-For-Profit Acute Care Hospitals, Donna Fe Jamieson
Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT
STRATEGIC FLEXIBILITY IN NOT-FOR-PROFIT ACUTE CARE HOSPITALS
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Donna F. M. Jamieson
Despite multiple industry cycles of rapid and complex changes in the last three decades, the body of research in health care services strategy has not addressed the idea of strategic flexibility, that is, when and how should strategy evolve under conditions of environmental turbulence. Strategic flexibility has been defined in the literature as the ability to adapt to rapidly changing conditions by leveraging internal resources and competencies to effectively compete. With increasing scope of responsibility in both nursing and non-nursing functional areas, nurse executives have not only …
Do Market Anomalies Add Up?, Larissa C. Steinfeldt
Do Market Anomalies Add Up?, Larissa C. Steinfeldt
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This is a study about abnormal characteristics in the stock market and how to successfully use them in personal portfolios. Market anomalies are unexpected excess returns that occur in relation to certain variables. Five commonly known market anomalies (market cap, price-earnings ratio, price-book value, momentum, volatility) are tested to give evidence for their presence. Existing variables are then combined in different portfolios in order to observe whether they generate greater excess returns combined rather than individually. This study will also reveal whether long-term holding is possible and how the anomalies react in bullish and bearish markets.
Conversational Dynamics: Decision Making As Discourse, Zackary R. Edens
Conversational Dynamics: Decision Making As Discourse, Zackary R. Edens
Theses and Dissertations--Management
This dissertation examines decision making as discourse to capture subtle characteristics and processes within top management team discussions and examines their influence on decision outcomes. Additionally, this approach allows for exploration of decision making processes in real time by utilizing audio analysis techniques that can provide a more dynamic and integrative view of conversations and discussions as they relate to the dialogue and debate that goes on within top management teams, as well as providing an alternate pathway of study for top management team and group research, decision making studies, and the fields of communication and conversational analysis.
Essays On Failure Management Of Nonprofit Organizations, Junesoo Lee
Essays On Failure Management Of Nonprofit Organizations, Junesoo Lee
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
No matter how well an organization is managed, we face some inevitable failures such as deficient volunteers, excess demands for service, unstable grants, etc. Paradoxically however, successful organizations have been using their failures creatively. Beyond such successful use of failure, can benefits of failure be systematically described? What would be the generic ways to benefit from failure? In order to answer that question, three essays were written with the following details.
Estrategias De Internacionalización Para Empresas Del Subsector De Turismo En Colombia: Un Enfoque Al Turismo Ecológico En El Eje Cafetero En El Periodo 2009-2012, Manuel Fernando Fuentes Rodríguez, Diana Marcela Gutiérrez Segura, Mónica Alexandra Ospina Amador
Estrategias De Internacionalización Para Empresas Del Subsector De Turismo En Colombia: Un Enfoque Al Turismo Ecológico En El Eje Cafetero En El Periodo 2009-2012, Manuel Fernando Fuentes Rodríguez, Diana Marcela Gutiérrez Segura, Mónica Alexandra Ospina Amador
Finanzas y Comercio Internacional
Este trabajo tiene por objeto la formulación de estrategias de internacionalización para las empresas operadoras turísticas ecológicas ubicadas en la región del Eje Cafetero, con el fin de brindar un aporte al sector de servicios turísticos, en donde inicialmente se identifican las etapas que ha atravesado el sector, realizando un comparativo entre las estrategias que se han implementado, el comportamiento y la evolución del sub sector eco turístico dentro del país; aportando nuevas ideas de desarrollo en donde las empresas inicien o mejoren el proceso de internacionalización, identificando los factores potenciales que determinen la oferta turística que estas compañías podrían …