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Group dynamics and norms in classroom education

By the very nature of culture and humanity, humans tend to be group animals -- they thrive in groups, coalesce into groups, indeed, the very process of moving from hunter-gatherer to cities was part of a group behavior.

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General Electric's cross-cultural product launch coordination challenge

The General Electric (GE) Country Managers' Meeting being held in Paris, France brought together leaders from Japan, Nigeria, France and India to discuss how they could coordinate more effectively in new product development.

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Peter Drucker's knowledge workers and the Martin-Hrivnak employee trainer model

Peter Drucker's definition of knowledge worker sets the pace for a revolution in careers, job responsibilities and the use of technologies to capture, transform and create knowledge in organizations (Drucker, et.al.). Dr.

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Reform policies of Mustafa Kemal and Reza Khan compared

In the aftermath of World War I, the world had begun to experience massive structural change, with a wave of imperial collapses producing a groundswell of nationalism and independence movements.

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Walter Borneman's analysis of the War of 1812 and American national identity

The main thesis of the "1812: The War That Forget a Nation" that Walter Borneman put forward is that this respective war was the main factor in finalizing the American national identity.

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Public versus private sector control of American transportation

Transportation is recognized for the indispensable role it has and in hope that it will become more effective, certain people have produced debates regarding whether it is the private sector or the public sector that should be given total authority over the business.

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The impact of socially responsible funds on Russian companies

In 1989, the Cold War came to an end with the fall of the Soviet Union. The dominant power in its hemisphere was reduced considerably in its economic sway, with the bulk of its extra-territorial holdings being disseminated into the world's population as independent, democratic nation-states.

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Adult learner preferences for e-learning versus traditional learning environments

For a quantitative proposal you are planning, draw a visual model of the variables in the theory using the procedures for causal model design advanced in this chapter.

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Critique of Rodriguez-Ardura and Meseguer-Artola's longitudinal e-commerce adoption model

Longitudinal Model of e-Commerce: Environmental, Technological, and Organizational Drivers of B2C Adoption (Rodriguez-Ardura, Meseguer-Artola, 2010) the authors have defined and implemented a longitudinally-based methodology for tracking e-commerce adoption in early-adopter companies in Spain.

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BP's organizational structure and response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster

BP is one of the world's major energy companies. It supplies its customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, retail services and petrochemicals products for everyday living.

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