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Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida’S Hmo, Health Options. Inc., Awarded National Medicare Managed Care Demonstration Project, 12/30/1996, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

A news release about Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida’s HMO, Health Options. Inc., Awarded National Medicare Managed Care Demonstration Project, from December 30, 1996.

Profile Vol: 45 No: 7 December 27, 1996, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

December 27, 1996 employee newsletter published by the Public Relations Department to educate, inform and recognize the employees of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida.

Bowling On The Girdiron: The Name Game, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Already some of the big ones are behind us like the Las Vegas Bowl which attracted very little attention from the major industry in that city and the Jeep Eagle Aloha Bowl which featured neither the bird nor the vehicle.

Last Minute Christmas Gifts For The Sports Fan, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Attention K©mart Shoppers. Today I will offer some last minute Christmas items for the Sports Fan on your gift list.

Profile Vol: 45 No: 6 December 19, 1996, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

December 19, 1996 employee newsletter published by the Public Relations Department to educate, inform and recognize the employees of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida.

Accounting For Costs Of Activities Of Not-For-Profit Organizations And Local Governmental Entities That Include Fund Raising; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 1996, December 14, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee

Statements on Auditing Standards

No abstract provided.

Pete Roselle, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Some called him the Pope of the National Football League. Others saw him as a minor deity of the mid-twentieth century's religious devotion to sport. Whatever the perspective, it is clear that Alvin "Pete" Rozelle is among the most significant figures in the history of Sport in America and the world in the Twentieth Century.

Fastfact: Human Resources, Edition 7, December 12, 1996, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Thinking Styles And Financial Characteristics Of Selected Canadian Farm Managers, Wayne W. Howard, George L. Brinkman, Remy Lambert

Agribusiness

The thinking styles of selected Canadian farm managers are identified using the life styles inventory (LSI). The farmers'LSI scores are compared with those of a base sample of nonfarmers, and correlations between the farmers'LSI scores and financial indicators are examined. Results indicate that farmers do thinking differently than nonfarmers and that there are significant correlations between thinking styles and financial measures.

Fastfact: Human Resources, Edition 6, December 5, 1996, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

1996-12-05 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes for December 5, 1996.

Jerry Reinsdorf's Smoking Gun And Baseball Labor Settlement, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

They called him The Old Roman. In 1919 Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox so angered his players with low salaries and his cheapskate ways that they turned on him and fixed the World Series. In 1996 White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf so angered his fellow owners by his high salaries and wild spending that they turned on him, reversed their vote of the previous three weeks, and approved the new baseball collective bargaining agreement. Maybe they should call Reinsdorf, the New Roman, or Roman Nouveau.

Profile Vol: 45 No: 5 December 2, 1996, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

December 2, 1996 employee newsletter published by the Public Relations Department to educate, inform and recognize the employees of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida.

Cultural Value Orientations As An Antecedent To The Formation Of International Interfirm Relationships: The Developmentof Cultural Value Dimensions In A Business Context, Susan Forquer Gupta

Doctoral Dissertations

With the importance of international interfirm relationships increasing, it becomes critical to understand the antecedents and consequences of relationship formation. Difficulty in relationships occur when firms with differing cultural value orientations attempt to engage in exchange. Culture affects the international firm in several ways: 1) difficulty in establishing a single organizational culture when a firm is comprised of multi-national employees; 2) difficulty in serving the market when cultural differences exist in the consumer; and 3) difficulty in establishing interfirm relationships across cultural boundaries. Individually, these problems are difficult to resolve, combined they can lead to failure. The first two have …

December 1996, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

DEPARTMENTS

AT DEADLINE ...•...................................................................... 3

COMMENTARY ........................................................................ 6

EDITORIAL .............................................................................. 6

PRO-CON ............................................................................ 7

CLOSE-UP: DR. MARIO MOLINA .......................................... 8

CORPORATE PROFILE: ROY 0 . HUFFMAN ROOF CO . .... 10

THE EMPLOYERS GROUP .................................................. 14

EXPORTING .......................................................................... 16

CORNER ON THE MARKET ................................................ 26

EXECUTIVE TIME OUT: BODEGA BAY ............................... 35

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ................................................. 45

REAL ESTATE FOCUS ............................................................ 46

MANAGING ............................................................................ 49

DESERT BUSINESS JOURNAL ........................................... 52

PEOPLE, PLACES & EVENTS ............................................. 55

RESTAURANT REVIEW: PETRELLI'S ................................. 56

ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE ..................................................... 57

NEW BUSINESS LIST .......................................................... 62

BANKRUPTCIES .................................................................. 60

MANAGER'S BOOKSHELF .................................................. 61

CALENDAR ........................................................................... 65 …

Smallholder Dairying Under Transactions Costs In East Africa, Steven Staal, Christopher L. Delgado, Charles F. Nicholson

Agribusiness

It is argued that dairying is vital to future viability of many small farms in East Africa and that high transactions costs for dairy production and marketing limit participation by asset-and information-poor smallholders. Case studies from Kenya and Ethiopia illustrate the role of dairy cooperatives in reducing transactions costs. Analysis of the determinants of producer prices received by a sample of dairy producers near Addis Ababa suggests that different levels of access to infrastructure, assets, and information explain why different households contemporaneously accept widely different producer prices for fluid milk.

Using Critical And Creative Thinking Skills To Enhance Integrity In Business Organizations, Madeline B. Conley

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

In this thesis I explore some of the ways in which critical thinking skills can be used to facilitate the development of integrity in business organizations. The vehicle I have developed to bring these thinking skills to organizations is a one-day intensive workshop with a follow-up half-day evaluation session. In chapter one, I define integrity and compare it to Stephen Carter's definition. I also analyze five specific critical thinking skills and relate them to two actual cases: Dow Corning and fictitiously named, First National Bank. In the Dow Corning case, I argue that management might have produced a less destructive …

Lupin Logic Number 77

Lupin Logic

Contents

Understanding Plant Breeders Rights Peter Portmann, Principal Plant Breeder

Lupin prices

Immature seeds

Kalya lupins

Seed freight subsidy

1996 December, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

MSU Clip Sheet Archives

MSU Clip Sheet newsletters published in December of 1996.

Southern University Business Majors Understanding The Stock Market, Edwin W. Lawrence

Electronic Dissertations and Theses

This study analyzes the amount of knowledge that the business students at Southern University obtained concerning the stock market. The study reveals that while many students feel that it is important to understand the stock market, when considering their major, the majority feel that they are not as well versed on the stock market as they should be. A random sampling was performed in order to draw conclusions about the business students and to determine just how many students are knowledgeable of the stock market.

The Influence Of Education On Tax Compliance, Trina N. Ruth

Electronic Dissertations and Theses

This thesis will explore the effect that education of income tax laws would have on the increase of taxpayer compliance. It will attempt to show that with proper education and information about their income tax reporting an increase in compliance would be the result. The research that will be used for data and statistical purposes will be in the form of a survey. The survey targets Beauty Salons, Barber Shops, and Beauty Schools. This survey will serve as the medium to research the notion of how much income taxpayers actually report. Other social and economic factors such as age, sex, …

User Empowerment During A Coercive Organizational Transformation Enabled By Information Systems Change, Albert Huang, Leon Kappleman, Victor Prybutok, G. Maples

Eberhardt School of Business Faculty Articles

Examines the effects of a small empowerment during the information system conversion phase of a directively managed transformation. Motivational benefits of employee empowerment in facilitating organizational change and promoting organization effectiveness; Use of a participative, collaborative or consultative change-management strategy; Important objective of information system development; Details on the study and its findings.

Sow Preference For Types Of Flooring In Farrowing Crates, P. A. Phillips, D. Fraser, B. K. Thompson

Housing and Confinement of Farm Animals Collection

A preference-testing apparatus was used to provide sows with continuous access to three identical farrowing crates, each with a different type of flooring. The crates radiated from a central hub area sufficiently large for sows to enter or leave any crate freely. In exp. 1, nine sows from a concrete-floored gestation room were offered crates over concrete, plastic-coated rod, and galvanized metal rod. In exp. 2, sows were pre-exposed for a period of 1 wk to one of the three floors before entry into the preference testing apparatus. Video recording was used to determine sow position from 3 d before …

The Detection Of Fraud In Financial Reporting: Did The Treadway Commission Make A Difference?, Michael Williamson

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Moral Theory And Moral Life, Michael Pritchard

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

This paper was originally presented as The Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture, January 25, 1996.

Environmental Regulatory Impact And Firm-Level Innovation: A Study Of Electric Utilities' Responses To The Clean Air Act Amendments Of 1990, Carol M. Sánchez

Peer Reviewed Articles

No abstract provided.

The Development Of Accounting And Financial Reporting: A Global Perspective Is Universal Acceptance Of International Accounting Standards Imminent?, Deborah Sales

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Accounting methodologies have been centuries in the making. As societies matured fiscally, so did corresponding accounting techniques. Since societies evolved independently, there is now a variety of extant reporting practices. The technological advances of the latter part of the twentieth century have taken trade to a new level. Competition for products and capital has increased exponentially. Investors depend upon the information recorded in financial reports to determine where they will invest their resources. The information derived from financial reports may be misunderstood when the reporting entity is from another country, however. This lack of "harmony" is one of the latest …

Measuring The Technological Leadership Of International Joint Ventures In A Transforming Economy, Kong Wing, Clement Chow, Ka Yiu, Michael Fung

Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies Working Paper Series

This paper introduces technical efficiency as an objective criterion for measuring the performance of international joint ventures in China. We compute the estimates of time-invariant and time-varying technical efficiency in four major manufacturing industries in Shanghai. We show that international joint ventures are in general more technically efficient than domestic firms in the industries of textile, machinery and equipment, and electronics and telecommunications equipment are widening in our sample period although the industrial reforms and active technology policies have improved the productivity of domestic firms. However, in the clothing industry, the technical efficiency of domestic firms, especially state-owned firms, is …

The Motives Of Hong Kong-Japanese International Joint Ventures, Mei Ling, May Wong

Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies Working Paper Series

This paper attempts to study Hong Kong-Japanese joint ventures from the perspectives of firm-specific advantages provided by both partners. The analysis focuses on the local partner's perspective of establishing international joint ventures (IJVs) with a Japanese multinational retailer. First, the background of the local partner, especially the company’s organizational restructuring immediately before the formation of the IJVs is examined. Second, the development and consolidation of the IJVs between the two partners by a series of IJV activities in Hong Kong, Asia, and China is described. Third, the motives behind both partners to establish the IJVs are examined. Finally, an evaluation …

Team Network News, December, 1996, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Communications Implementation Team

Newsletters

No abstract provided.