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Identifying Entrepreneur Characteristics And Attributes In Relation To Small And Medium Sized Enterprises In A Regional Context: A Case Study Of The Greater Illawarra Region, Amir Arjomandi, Scott Burrows, Charles Harvie

Amir Arjomandi

Good Corporate Governance Is Good For Banks’ Bottom Line.Pdf, Amir Arjomandi, Juergen Seufert, Ruhul Salim

Amir Arjomandi

No abstract provided.

Pacific Brewing And Malting Co., Brett Cooper

Entrepreneurship Film Festival

Learn how the microbrew sector was thriving in Tacoma in the 19^th century—and how entrepreneurs brought back the largest pre-Prohibition breweries in Tacoma. Steve Navarro discusses Pacific Brewing and Malting Co.’s growth in this new craft brewery boom.

Harmon Brewing Company, Sergio Espinoza

Entrepreneurship Film Festival

Take a look inside one of the first microbreweries in Tacoma with founder Pat Nagle. Pat discusses the way the Harmon has changed through the years, yet has stayed committed to the Tacoma community.

T-Town Mma, James Robinson

Entrepreneurship Film Festival

Have you ever wondered what an MMA studio is all about? See the great visuals of MMA classes in action! And hear from founder Jimmy Thompson about how he runs his studio.

Trends In Product Development – The Supermarket Shelf Revisited, Anna Cruickshank

Other resources

In a rapidly changing environment the survival of the food service industry and the food retail markets depend to a large extent on their capacity to develop and market new or radically improved products. The identified product development tends provide insight into the new and novel food products available to facilitate the growing demands of the food industry in Ireland and the ever-changing fashions in food requirements world-wide.

Desire For Experiential Travel, Avoidance Of Rituality And Social Esteem: An Empirical Study Of Consumer Response To Tourism Innovation, Winnie Wing Yin Chan, Chester K.M. To, Alice Wai Ching Chu

Faculty of Design & Environment (THEi)

This study investigates tourist consumption responses toward tourism innovation. To measure tourist responses, this study posits three key consumption drivers, namely social esteem, desire for experiential travel, and avoidance against rituality of tourism settings (a subscale of need for uniqueness) and models consumers’ affective response within the context of tourism innovation. It involves 295 respondents in an empirical survey. The findings affirm the three drivers toward tourist consumption behavior. Avoidance of rituality reflects tourist preference toward tourism product and service innovation. Desire for experiential travel and the pursuit of social esteem signify tourism management and marketing innovation. Social esteem, need …

Repeated Planning Applications By Developers Under Statutory Zoning: A Hong Kong Case Study Of Delays And Design Improvements In Private Residential Development, Lawrence W.C. Lai, Daniel Chi Wing Ho, K.W. Chau, Mark H. Chua

Faculty of Design & Environment (THEi)

Delays in obtaining development approvals have been advanced as a major reason for shortages if not also increase in cost of housing. This paper is the first systematic attempt to examine whether the apparently long period of time taken to obtaining statutory planning permissions by developers for major development projects under Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) zoning is due to Town Planning Board rejections or developers’ strategy to hoard land or improve building design. Publicly available Town Planning Board data obtained from the Planning Department, property transaction records kept by the Land Registry, property market statistics released by the Rating and …

Price Discontinuities In The Market For Rins, Charles F. Mason, Neil A. Wilmot

Charles F Mason

No abstract provided.