1. PRIMARY ANDSECONDARY DATA We explore the availability and use of data (primary and secondary) in the field of business research.Specifically‚ we examine an international sample of doctoral dissertations since 1998‚ categorizingresearch topics‚ data collection‚ and availability of data. Findings suggest that use of only primarydata pervades the discipline‚ despite strong methodological reasons to augment with secondary data. INTRODUCTION Data can be defined as the quantitative or qualitative
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critical when they use sources for new materials. To help the historian by evaluating and organizing‚ the sources fall into two categories: primary sources and secondary sources. Primary sources are materials produced by people or groups of people directly involved in the event or topic under consideration‚ either as participant or as witnesses. In other words‚ primary sources are
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commodities are traded) and specialized markets (where only one commodity is traded). Markets work by placing many interested buyers and sellers‚ including households‚ firms‚ and government agencies‚ in one "place"‚ thus making it easier for them to find each other. In finance‚ financial markets facilitate: * The raising of capital * Transfer of risk * Price discovery * Global transactions with integration of financial markets * International trade * Transfer of liquidity TYPES
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Three main primaries are open‚ closed‚ and blanket. These all deal with the parties and how they are able vote. Open primary does not have to be a registered party to vote. Closed primary encourages party unity. Blanket system to select the political party candidates in a primary election. These three main primaries have different meanings of the parties. Open primary is voters need not to be a registered party member to vote in a party’s primary. Eleven states have open primary. If the person
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Enron was once one of the world’s leading electricity‚ natural gas‚ pulp‚ paper and communications companies. However‚ in December 2‚ 2001‚ Enron suddenly filed for bankruptcy. During the ten years before Enron¡¦s went bankrupt‚ Enron¡¦s management had started transferring Enron¡¦s funding to personal accounts and made fake balance sheets‚ which provided investors information about how this company goes. (Gibney‚ 2005) These illegal actions‚ performed by certain individuals‚ finally led Enron to
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Identify and briefly explain three reasons why the New Christian Right might have failed to achieve its aims (9marks) The New Christian Right is a politically and morally conservative‚ protestant fundamentalist movement. The aims are extremely ambitious as they wish to make abortion‚ homosexuality and divorce illegal. They want to turn back to a time before liberalisation of American culture and society began. The New Christian Right may have failed to achieve its aims because the group lacked wide
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1. Name each of the three primary embryonic brain vesicles. Use clinical terminology to name the resulting adult brain region. Prosencephalon (forebrain) - becomes telencephalon (endbrain) and diencephalon (interbrain) Mesencephalon (midbrain) - remains undividedd Rhombencephalon (hindbrain) - becomes metencephalon (afterbrain) and myelencephalon (spinal brain) 2. What is the advantage of having a cerebrum that is highly convoluted? What term is used to indicate its crooves? Its outward folds
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Bottom of Form Primary and Secondary Markets The Primary market deals in newly issued securities where the price is fixed by the underwriter. Secondary markets deal with already issued stocks / bonds. The Primary market deals in newly issued securities where the price is fixed by the underwriter. Primary markets act as a source of new funds for the company issuing the stocks or bonds. Underwriters often reserve for themselves and their important clients a portion of the primary shares as part
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PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES What is Primary Sources? * Primary sources are original materials. Generally‚ primary sources are not accounts written after the fact with the benefit of hindsight. * Information for which the writer has no personal knowledge is not primary‚ although it may be used by historians in the absence of a primary source. * Primary sources provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation. They are created by witnesses or recorders
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Primary and Secondary Succession SCI/ 256 People Science and the Environment Primary and Secondary Succession This paper will review the components of primary and secondary succession as describes on page 68 and 69 of the textbook Environment. The scope of this paper will attempt to address how biotic and a biotic components effect the balance of the ecosystem‚ and how ecosystems go through the cycles of progression. When discussing primary succession‚ one must first
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