The topic of emotional intelligence and effective leadership has attracted considerable interest from researchers for many years. Most of the interest in the area is based on claims that emotional intelligence and organizational culture is linked to leadership effectiveness. Many studies have been conducted on the link between emotional intelligence and leadership effectiveness this studies examines the relationship between three concepts: emotional intelligence, leadership effectiveness and organizational culture. The study concludes with recommendations for further studies in this field.

by Li Yuk Fung. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-64). / ABSTRACT --- p.i / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.ii / LIST OF EXHIBITS --- p.iv / PREFACE --- p.v / Chapter / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Objectives --- p.1 / Scope of Study --- p.1 / Methodology --- p.2 / Secondary Data Collection --- p.2 / Observations --- p.3 / Primary Data Collection --- p.3 / Literature Review --- p.4 / Limitations --- p.4 / Chapter II. --- THE COMPANY --- p.5 / History and Background --- p.5 / Organizational Structure --- p.6 / Business Strategies --- p.8 / Marketing Mix --- p.8 / Market Segmentation --- p.14 / Competitiveness --- p.17 / Chapter III. --- INDUSTRIAL ANALYSIS --- p.21 / Environmental Analysis --- p.21 / Economic Environment --- p.22 / Socio/Cultural Factors --- p.23 / Demographic Factors --- p.23 / Technological Environment --- p.24 / Legal Environment --- p.24 / Customers --- p.25 / Government Sector --- p.25 / Private Sector --- p.27 / Institutional Sector --- p.28 / Suppliers --- p.30 / Competitors --- p.33 / Entry Barriers --- p.34 / Critical Success Factors for the Industry --- p.34 / Chapter IV. --- SWOT ANALYSIS --- p.35 / Internal Strengths --- p.35 / Internal Weaknesses --- p.37 / Future Opportunities --- p.41 / Environmental Threats --- p.44 / Problem Identifications --- p.45 / Chapter V. --- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.48 / Recommendations --- p.48 / Implications and Evaluations --- p.53 / Conclusions --- p.57 / APPENDIX --- p.58 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.63

<p>Na uzorku od 9746 akcidenata sa 19 opasnih materija, ispitivan<br />je uticaj logističkih podsistema (proizvodnja, skladištenje,<br />pretovar transport i distribucija) na kvalitativni ishod<br />posledica po život i zdravlje ljudi. Primenom odabranih<br />statističkih testova za svaku opasnu materiju su ustanovljeni<br />logistički podsistemi sa najvećim rizikom. Osobine opasnih<br />materija značajno variraju vrednosti i pozicije rizika.<br />Ustanovljeni model se može primeniti u praksi.</p> / <p>In a sample of 9746 accidents are divide with 19 hazardous substances, the<br />influence of logistics systems (production, storage, transshipment, transport<br />and distribution) to the qualitative outcome of the result of the health and<br />safety of people. By applying selected statistical tests for each hazardous<br />material are established logistics subsystems with the highest risk.<br />Characteristics of hazardous materials vary value and risk positions in<br />logistics sybsistems. The established model can be applied in paractice.</p>

In the first chapter, I investigate reputational effects of the disclosure of negative information in a market affected by adverse selection. A series of recent discoveries has increased consumer concern over the presence of counterfeits in the market for fine and rare wine. For the thousands of bottles sold at auction each year, house reputation is used as a quality assurance mechanism to signal product authenticity. Using sales data from 2005-2015 for the ten largest auction houses, I study consumer reaction following two recent disclosures of an auction house having offered or sold counterfeit wine. My identification strategy to examine reputation involves a series of triple difference regressions analyzing equilibrium prices and quantities. I discover one house experienced no losses following a 2008 incident involving 107 counterfeit bottles. However, three houses associated with a 2012 incident involving thousands of bottles were found to have suffered significant reputation losses following the incident. These losses are demonstrated by a 3-8% decrease in equilibrium sales prices and a 6-9% decrease in sales quantities in the year following the disclosure. The second chapter of my dissertation involves the transitivity of stated preferences. Revealed preference theory states that, in order for an individual’s preferences to be consistent with utility maximization, they must satisfy the principle of transitivity. Any deviations from this principle result in a logically inconsistent response pattern. I develop a new framework to study the rationality of stated preferences, accounting for both the number and severity of non-transitive responses an individual makes. I implement this method using a nationally representative survey of 3,234 respondents from the U.S. general population and discover that more than 52% of the population exhibit non-transitive preferences. In addition to measuring the number and severity of non-transitive preferences exhibited by each respondent, another aim of this manuscript is to evaluate the relationship between response transitivity and the individual outcomes of each respondent under the premise that high quality decisions are the result of greater decision-making ability. After controlling for demographic characteristics including age, education, race, gender, ethnicity, and work status, non-transitive patterns are correlated with lower incomes and poorer health.

acase@tulane.edu / The Qatari Maritime Law No. 15 was enacted in 1980. Since then, no amendment has been made to it. It is recommended that this law be revisited in view of the developments that have taken place in the maritime industry. At the national level, the Qatari maritime sector has undergone substantial changes. More importantly, the introduction of a new International Convention on Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partially by Sea (“The Rotterdam Rules”) in 2008 is a second reason for revisiting the Qatari Maritime Law. This is because, such a convention reflects recent advancements in the international shipping industry. This dissertation compares the Qatari Maritime Law provisions of the contract of the carriage of goods by sea to those of international seaborne carriage conventions namely the Hague Rules, the Hamburg Rules, and the Rotterdam Rules. Where relevant, the perspectives of the U.S. and the U.K. will also be examined. There are four major topics analyzed within this dissertation: 1) background information about the State of Qatar in order to set the context, 2) the scope of the application of the rules involved in the comparison, 3) the carrier’s obligations, and 4) liabilities. The main objective of the dissertation is to examine how the Qatari maritime law should be developed in light of the international conventions on carriage of goods by sea. The investigation ends by making some recommendations to the Qatari legislature on how to reform the Qatari Maritime Law so that it is sufficiently robust to cope with modern maritime practice. / 1 / Muna Al-Marzouqi

P.A.Samuelson 於1954年發表了 " The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure " 一文，為純粹公共財之最適提供條件（ΣMRS＝MRT）做了一個最佳的註解，成為後人討論純粹公共財理論時之比較基礎。然而公共支出與公共收入為一體之兩面，租稅融通方式之不同將影響公共支出之水準。而 A.C. Pigou於1947年就曾提出租稅融通方式之不同，將影響公共支出之水準。亦即當政府採用扭曲性租稅來融通公共財之提供時，將造成效率上之損失，此時應將此社會成本列入為公共財提供之成本，進而修正了公共財提供之最適條件。 而本篇論文之目的，即在討論當不確定之下，最適公共財提供條件之修正，並加入了人力資本（Human Capital）之探討，分析修正項目對最適公共支出水準之影響，嘗試得出不確定因素影響公共收入面時，與公共支出間之關係，以期能做為公共決策時之考量。 本文以Eaton & Rosen (1980a)不確定工資下最適課稅的模型作為分析之基礎，並加入公共財之提供，分別以不確定工資稅、定額稅、以及不確定利息所得稅來融通公財之提供，可分別得出修正後公共財之最適提供條件。其中在不確定性之下，以定額稅來融通公共財，並不會產生社會成本，故根據所得出之公共財提供之最適條件，政府利用定額稅來融通公共支出時，只須考慮公共財提供之直接成本。但若分別以不確定工資稅及利息所得稅來融通公共財之提供時，由於其最適提供條件所產生出之修正項目，將影響其公共財之最適提供水準。故我們將分別在確定性及不確定之下分析其修正項目，並探討這些修正項目將如何影響公共財之提供水準。 結論是在確定性之下，課稅使得第二期之休閒減少，即課稅使得第二期之勞動供給增加，用以融通公共財之稅收增加，減輕了公共財融通之負擔。故其社會成本將小於直接成本，公共財提供之最適水準可以提供較多。在加入公共財時反而使得勞動供給增加時，此時之扭曲效果為負，與Pigou認為課稅之造成之扭曲效果應使公共財之最適提供水準較低之傳統理論恰好相反。公共財與所得（私有財）之間為互補之關係，則公共財之提供將使休閒增加，即勞動供給將減少，進一步使得稅收減少，以稅收來融通公共財之成本將因此增加，故社會成本大於直接成本，公共財提供之最適水準應較低；反之公共財與所得（私有財）之間為替代之關係，則公共財提供將使休閒減少，則勞動供給增加，融通公共財之成本減少，公共財供之最適水準可以較高。 但在不確定性之下，不僅會發生上述之結果，亦須考慮稅率對人力資本之影響，消費者意識到公共財之融通必須以人力資本投資之增加為代價，以及不確定性實現之程度而定。在風險趨避程度為固定，且第一期之非勞動所得大於第一期之消費時（即不工作仍有由儲蓄時），課稅將使人力資本投資增加，但仍須配合不確定性實現之程度而定。在當不確定性之程度大於其平均值時，由於消費者之風險趨避程度為固定，消費者較不能忍受風險太大之情況，將造成消費者額外之成本，公共財提供之社會成本大於直接成本，公共財可提供較少。當不確定性之程度小於其平均值時，公共財提供之社會成本小於直接成本，公共財可提供較多。

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

<p>The aim of this study was to find a connection between changes in societies and changes in semantic prototypes by examining the prototypes of ‘fruit’ and ‘car’ among Slovenes that reached adulthood in Yugoslavia and Slovenes that that reached adulthood in the Republic of Slovenia and to compare those results with a control group of native English speakers. The results of the study suggests that in some aspects, the prototypes of ‘fruit’ and ‘car’ amongyounger Slovenes have moved closer to what they are in cultures that have a long history of capitalism and consumerism. The opinions about how good an example of a ‘fruit’ a banana is, is the best example of this. Younger Slovenes and the control group see it as a very good example, while older Slovenes rated it lower. The older Slovenes were also slightly more accepting of a very small car model being a good example of a ‘car’, than both younger Slovenes and the control group were.</p>

<p>Det kan vara svårt för en kund att bedöma en sakförsäkring om kunden inte självförstår sig på alla aspekter av sakförsäkringen. Detta kan leda till att kunden inteagerar rationellt i sitt köpbeteende vilket försvårar situationen för försäkringsbolag attpositionera sig rätt för att skaffa sig en konkurrenskraftig position på marknaden. I våruppsats ska vi diskutera kundvärde hos en tjänst och hur varumärket spelar in närkunder bedömer detta värde. Denna studie är gjord på uppdrag av ICA och har i syfteatt undersöka vad kunder värderar i sina sakförsäkringar.Författarna som gjort studien har tre års akademisk ekonomisk erfarenhet ochkommer utnyttja sina kunskaper för att söka svar på frågor som rör kundvärde ochsakförsäkringar. Studien kommer att ha en deduktiv ansats där teorier och insamladdata jämförs för att få fram nya indikationer och resultat om det studerade problemet.Teorier har valts efter dess relevans till den valda frågeställningen. De teorier somvalts är kopplade till kundvärde, lojalitet och kvalitet i tjänster och mer specifiktsakförsäkringar. Utifrån teorierna har sedan ett antal frågeställningar tagits ut som gerden information som ytterligare behövs för att kunna se problemet ur ett nyttperspektiv.Frågorna har ställts i fokusgrupper där författarna har samlat in deltagare som harvalts ut slumpmässigt så länge de har varit över 18 år. Totalt har 13 personer deltagit itvå fokusgrupper som har tillfrågats samma frågor. För att korrekt kunna återge vadfokusgrupperna sagt har en diktafon använts som spelat in helafokusgruppdiskussionen och sedan transkriberats. Alla deltagare i studien är anonyma.Detta material har legat som grund för alla resultat som gjorts i studien.Försäkringsbranschen ses av våra respondenter som enhetlig istället för attförsäkringsbolagen är åtskilda. När kunder behöver använda sin försäkring ses helaprocessen som ett lotteri.För att kunna urskilja hur vår studie står sig mot tidigare studier har alla deltagaresåsikter och diskussioner analyserats utifrån tidigare gjorda studier inom vårt område.Vi kan se att åsikter som lojalitet, pris, PR, och relationer starkt påverkar hur kunderser på försäkringsbranschen. Att det inte finns ett rationellt beteende inomköprocessen när det gäller sakförsäkringar kan bero på att de negativa associationersom kunder har inte överstiger de positiva aspekter som relation eller PR ger. Studienavslutas med att ge lite rekommendationer till vår uppdragsgivare från vad författarnahar kunnat se i studien.</p>

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-121). Also available in electronic version.