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Motivations and usage patterns of social networking sites : exploring cultural differences between United States & Sri Lanka
2013
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2013 Cybernetics has experienced a major breakthrough and led to the utilization of computers at nearly all parts of daily life. The new technology created online social networking. Even though Social Networking Sites (SNS) are a global phenomenon, it is constrained by local conditions such as culture. Thus, the purpose of the study is to incorporate cultural dimensions to the motivations and usage patterns of the SNS considering SNS as a collection of features (chat, status updates, groups etc...). Present study replicates a study made in the United States in Sri Lanka, and identified differences, trace them to cultural reas…
The online marketing of religion : online marketing of religion: analysing social media use by online christian evangelists
2011
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2011 Inspired by a growing interest among scholars and practitioners concerning the promise and reality of the Internet’s ability to transform existing practices, the current study examines how evangelists actually use the Internet in their evangelism efforts. Theoretically, online evangelism is an emerging new approach to traditional evangelism. Underlying its emergence are expectations and initial evidence concerning Internet’s ability to transform certain aspects of organizations’ forms of promotions (for full detail see chapter 3). More specifically, this study engages in an abductive theory development effort with the go…
Role of advertisement in retaining customers of mobile telecommunication companies in Pakistan
2010
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2010 The telecommunications industry is a high velocity industry in the current business context. With this boom, even the competition in the developing countries like Pakistan the demand for mobile usage has significantly increased in the last few years. This emerging trend in demand and high profitable industry, leads to more and more mobile service providers who are investing for infrastructure facilities to provide their service more successfully. The network providers face a greater challenge in retaining their customers because the customers have many options and they may switch their brand to another for seeking better…
Evaluating CEO dismissal by the use of CART
2012
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2012
IT som konkurransefortrinn i norske havner : ISPS- en driver til bedre effektivisering?
2009
Masteroppgave i økonomi og administrasjon - Universitetet i Agder 2009 Målet med denne studien var å se på hvordan IT kan være med på å effektivisere logistikk prosesser og bidra til konkurransemessige fortrinn for norske havner etter at ISPS-koden ble innført. Det teoretiske rammeverket som er benyttet i denne studien er ressursbasert teori og teori om strategisk nødvendighet. Hensikten med teorien er å vurdere hvorvidt ressursene eller kombinasjoner av ressurser kan bidra til effektivisering og konkurransemessig fortrinn for selskapet. Den ressursbaserte teorien klassifiserer ressursene og vurderer de ut i fra variablene verdifull, sjelden, ikke kopierbar og organiserbar. Ressurser som op…
Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls. 2014, Nr. 2 (91)
2014
Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds
La banlieue du "20 heures". Ethnographie de la production d'un lieu commun journalistique
2013
International audience; Plongés dans un collectif de travail régi par des logiques économiques (audience, productivité), le poids des sources légitimes et des modèles professionnels importés de l’audiovisuel commercial, les journalistes de France 2 fabriquent et perpétuent les lieux communs sur les habitants des quartiers populaires pour satisfaire dans l’urgence la commande de reportages prédéfinis par leur hiérarchie. À partir d’une enquête menée au plus près des pratiques quotidiennes des journalistes, ce livre propose une explication sociologique à la permanence des représentations réductrices véhiculées par certains contenus médiatiques.
Las prácticas de evaluación en las materias de Ciencias Sociales de ESO en la Región de Murcia según la opinión de los inspectores de Educación
2015
Este artículo muestra las opiniones de los inspectores educativos respecto a las prácticas de evaluación de los profesores de Geografía e Historia de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (ESO) en la Región de Murcia, concretamente lo relativo a instrumentos y fases de evaluación, las concepciones sobre la calificación y la evaluación por competencias básicas. Los datos han sido extraídos mediante cuestionarios. Los resultados indican que las prácticas de evaluación de los profesores de Geografía e Historia no han variado en el tiempo a pesar de la introducción de novedades legislativas. El examen basado en contenidos conceptuales sigue siendo el instrumento de evaluación más importante. Todo el…
Antigüedad clásica y cultura nobiliaria en la España de finales del siglo XVIII. Autores y ediciones greco-romanas en la biblioteca de José Alvarez d…
2019
This article analyzes the reception of the classical world in the Spanish nobiliary culture at the end of the 18th century. Our objective is materialized through the study of the Greco-Roman books present in the unpublished catalog of the library of José Álvarez de Toledo, 11th Marqués de villafranca. From the examination of the authors and the different editions conserved by the aristocrat, the work tries to examine the influence of the classical world and its actuality in the development of the most advanced nobiliary culture of eighteenth- century Spain.
Managing Benefits in the Public Sector. Surveying Expectations and Outcomes in Norwegian Government Agencies
2008
Published version of a chapter in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5184, 98-110. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85204-9_9 Government agencies currently experience increasing pressure to document benefits from spending on eGovernment efforts. Hence, structured methods for benefits management (BM) are being developed. However, hardly any studies have investigated how such approaches are used and experienced. This study addresses this practice-research gap by reporting a study of a project involving 30 Norwegian government agencies using a common BM approach.A questionnaire was answered by project managers. Results show that that some 80 % of the ma…