The strength of the high-end retail industry has traditionally been in marketing and branding while management and operational efficiency lagged behind. In the face of changing client demographics and increased competition, improving operations through better data management and utilization could prove promising. In this work, we attempt to do so by focusing on a neglected area in high-end reta...

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Background: Pedagogical knowledge management is the management of knowledge and experiences in teaching, assessment, learning theories, and classroom management, and other areas of education. An analytical study of the literature can be helpful in understanding the pedagogical knowledge management approach. Therefore, this study is aimed on research synthesis of the effectiveness of pedagogical...

This paper presents the preliminary results of an action research project in a large Norwegian oil and petrochemical company. It focuses on the pilot phase of the project for testing the feasibility and practicality of the unified justification and evaluation framework (UJEF) developed by the authors based on extant IT investment justification and evaluation theories and frameworks. The UJEF fr...

Arbitration is frequently utilized to settle disputes. Much research has focused on the properties of final-offer arbitration (FOA) relative to conventional arbitration. Both mechanisms should encourage settlement in standard environments, but previous empirical work finds that impasses remain common. A modification of FOA, amended final-offer arbitration (AFOA), has been proposed as an alterna...