Little published research has examined the post-implementation outcomes of public private partnerships for housing, specifically the Military Privatized Housing Initiative (MPHI) from the perspective of the end user, the Military Family Housing (MFH) resident. Using Mettler and SoRelle's conceptualization of policy feedback theory as the foundation, the purpose of this repeated cross-sectional study was to assess residential satisfaction pre- and post- implementation of the MPHI. The study also addressed the influence of sociodemographic factors on MFH residents' perceived residential satisfaction. Secondary data were collected using 2 Department of Defense surveys administered pre- and post-implementation. An independent-samples t test was used to examine residential satisfaction before and after implementation of the MPHI. Multiple regression analysis was used to examine the influence of sociodemographic characteristics on residential satisfaction of MFH residents. Results indicated that privately-managed MFH residents were less satisfied than residents of government-managed MFH (p < .001). Results also showed that paygrade, branch of service, ethnicity/race, and having children or dependents in a household were significant determinants of residential satisfaction for government-managed MFH residents (p < .05). In privately-managed MFH, residents having children or dependents in the household was a significant determinant of residential satisfaction (p < .05). The positive social change implications stemming from this study include recommendations to policy makers to continue examination of MPHI outcomes and improve data collection consistency to ensure current housing policies are meeting the needs of military families.

Many large multinational energy company leaders lack strategies to successfully enter and thrive in bottom of the pyramid (BOP) markets. The purpose of this single case study was to explore strategies using a purposeful selection of 7 senior managers from a U. S. based global multinational energy leader with experience in BOP markets in the Republic of Cameroon. The BOP concept served as the conceptual framework for the study. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with senior managers, relevant websites, and government publications. Several themes emerged that were narrowed through categorical aggregation to identify strategies. Major themes included BOP readiness for social entrepreneurship, field knowledge to facilitate partnerships, and customer service. Findings suggest multinational energy company leaders seeking BOP opportunities should create internal corporate structures dedicated to the BOP markets. Leaders should know how businesses operate and thrive in the BOP, especially when working with BOP governments and a poorly informed population. Equally important is product choice, quality, and reliability for the BOP market. Customer service and satisfaction metrics are necessary to support brands. Participants highlighted the need for positive social change to improve lives, which could occur through capacity building, entrepreneurship, job creation, enhanced governance, increased wealth, and improved quality of life for local people.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Health professionals worldwide are currently inadequately trained to address the health issues of communities, particularly in developing countries where there are major health disparities. This study argues for an alternative and more appropriate education, one which would better prepare future health professionals to address these needs. The study draws attention to how the University of the Western Cape (UWC) responded to preparing its health professional graduates to better meet the needs of South African society. The thesis explores the rationale for a shift in health professions education to one which supports service-learning, locating the study within the broader developments in higher education within South Africa. The specific aim of this thesis was to evaluate a community-based interdisciplinary health promotion course offered to the undergraduate health sciences students from the faculties of Community and Health Sciences and Dentistry at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). It focused on evaluating the perceived effectiveness and the impact on the stakeholders of the Interdisciplinary Health Promotion course, with the aim of developing an appropriate framework to guide the teaching of health promotion at higher education institutions in South Africa. Ten primary schools in three disadvantaged communities in the Western Cape were used as the health promotion settings for the Interdisciplinary Health Promotion course. The study design was a programme evaluation that used the explanatory sequential mixed-methods design. An evaluation matrix was developed, consisting of three core concepts (curriculum, community-based learning, and university-school collaboration) against which the course was evaluated. Indicators and criteria were developed for each core concept. Questionnaires were distributed to all the stakeholders, that is, the university students, the lecturers, the supervisors and the school educators, involved in the Interdisciplinary Health Promotion Course during 2006. Focus group discussions with the stakeholders were also conducted at the UWC campus and in the Delft community. There was a good response from all the stakeholders who participated in the study (students (72.4%), lecturers (85%), supervisors (100%) and school educators (71.5%)). A main finding of the study was that the Interdisciplinary Health Promotion course was relevant and up-to-date with developments in the field of health promotion. Course topics were dealt with in sufficient depth and the assignments were clear, specific and related to the course outcomes. The interdisciplinary teaching and learning approach allowed the university students to learn and develop a better understanding of the roles and contributions that the various professions played in health promotion in a community. The course was perceived as having been of value to all the stakeholders and having a positive impact on the schools. The findings revealed that the health promotion projects implemented in the schools helped the university students to learn how to plan, implement and evaluate a project in a community setting. Furthermore, the findings suggest that the schools offered an ideal placement for university students to learn about health promotion and its application. In addressing a concern about the course not making any meaningful long-term impact on the schools and the surrounding communities, the study showed that it is important to revisit the current teaching and learning approach of the Interdisciplinary Health Promotion course. It revealed that service-learning as an alternative to the field education approach would facilitate a closer relationship between theoretical and practical knowledge, where the practical application was translated into a service that met the needs of a community. The study further revealed that the collaboration model between the university and the school also needed to be reconceptualized, to include all the stakeholders as well as their needs in relation to health promotion in the schools. It was recommended that the Health Promoting School framework should be seen as the overarching framework for the sustainability of school-based health promotion. In conclusion, this study showed that the recognition and establishment of university community partnerships and reliance upon them in the educational process, would provide many new opportunities for relevant and meaningful health professional education and training. These efforts would contribute to improving the quality of higher education delivered to students, thereby ensuring their competency to better meet the needs of the communities they will serve.

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Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, auf der Grundlage des OECD-Musterabkommens für einen in Deutschland unbeschränkt einkommensteuerpflichtigen Gesellschafter die steuerliche Behandlung einer Beteiligung an einer ausländischen intransparent besteuerten Personengesellschaft zu untersuchen. Auf der Grundlage dieser Ergebnisse wird geprüft, ob und gegebenenfalls unter welchen Bedingungen die Beteiligung an einer intransparent besteuerten Personengesellschaft steuerlich vorteilhafter ist als die Beteiligung an einer transparent besteuerten Personengesellschaft oder an einer Kapitalgesellschaft. Zu Beginn der Arbeit wird als Basis für den weiteren Fortgang die Auslegung von Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen und die Einordnung ausländischer Personen- und Kapitalgesellschaften im Hinblick auf die Anwendung des deutschen Steuerrechts und des Abkommensrechts untersucht. Die folgenden Kapitel beschäftigen sich mit der steuerlichen Behandlung bei der Gewinnentstehung, beim Gewinntransfer, bei Verlusten, bei Leistungsbeziehungen zwischen Gesellschaft und Gesellschafter sowie bei Einkünften aus Drittstaaten. Im Schlusskapitel werden die Ergebnisse vergleichend gegenüber gestellt und es erfolgt ein Steuerbelastungsvergleich.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This study demonstrates application of the demand/supply model that derives from the three failures theory to the study of partnership effectiveness, showing that effective partnership is a partnership that provides each partner with assets that help them spend fewer resources on achieving their goals than when working alone, by compensating for each other's weaknesses while maximizing their own strengths. The study uses public-private partnership (PPP) in humanitarian settings as a unique opportunity to investigate partnership as a process and contribute to a nascent collaboration theory. The study shows that factors that define effective PPP during different stages of disaster relief are similar. However, different stages of partnership require different levels of compensation mechanisms from partnership participants to ensure that both actors maximize their strengths while achieving their missions. As a result, different stages of partnership call upon different combinations and degrees of factors affecting partnership effectiveness. This research uses descriptive data and inferential analysis, based on interviews with 10 representatives of humanitarian agencies that partner with the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Office. It gives scholars and practitioners of philanthropy insights into the question: "how to give?" It also provides collaboration research and public policy with guidance on how to create stronger partnerships and increase the likelihood of better collaboration outcomes as well as how to better deal with hazards in order to mitigate disaster outbreaks.

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The paper considers the cumulative effect of applying the tools of public – private partnerships and corporate social responsibility while ensuring the existing social economic needs of the socially oriented methods. Proposed interpretation for public-private partnership, as a new environment socio-economic process in the paradigm of social responsibility, considers current forms of state-private partnership, the interrelation of public-private partnerships and corporate social responsibility while meeting community needs, describes the competitive advantages of the acquired businesses from the practice of implementing the principles of corporate social responsibility. / В работе рассмотрен совокупный эффект применения инструментов частно – государственного партнерства и корпоративной социальной ответственности при обеспечении существующих общественных потребностей экономическими социально ориентированными методами. Предложена трактовка государственно-частного партнерства, его как новой среды организации социально-экономического процесса в парадигме социальной ответственности, рассмотрены современные формы государственно-частного партнерства, выявлена взаимосвязь государственно-частного партнерства и корпоративной социальной ответственности в процессе удовлетворения общественных потребностей, описаны конкурентные преимущества, приобретаемые бизнес структурами от практики реализации принципов корпоративной социальной ответственности.

This work is devoted to the study of trust in marketing and in the building of successful partnerships. The phenomenon of trust is investigated from the marketing point. As a result, it was given new determination of trust, that is a specific kind of relationship in the framework of marketing and partnerships. The partnership, its conditions and stages of building are studied. Also, there the nature and classifications of trust were determined, criteria for selecting partners and the imperatives of building a trusting partnership were established. It was determined that the trust plays a key role in building and maintaining long-term partnerships in business networks, but is not the sole determinant of its basic construction, it works in the complex along with other factors, building business partnerships. In practical part “Company Hangiry” was examined. The instructions of building trusting relationship were practiced in “Company Hangiry”. / Данная работа посвящена исследованию доверия в маркетинге и в формировании партнерских отношений. Рассмотрен и изучен феномен доверия с позиции маркетинга, в результате чего определено, что доверие представляет собой определенный вид отношений в рамках маркетинга и партнерских отношений. Изучены партнерские отношения, условия их возникновения и этапы формирования. Рассматриваются деловые сети, их сущность и классификации. Также сформулированы критерии выбора партнеров и императивы построения доверительного партнерства. Определено, что доверие играет ключевую роль в построении и поддержании долгосрочных партнерских отношений в бизнес-сетях, но не является единственной основополагающей детерминантой его построения, а работает в комплексе наряду с другими факторами построения бизнес-партнерства. Проанализированы и определены отношения участников предприятия общественного питания ООО «Компания Хангири», условия формирования отношений бизнес-партнерства и процесс их формирования на данном предприятии. Предложена дорожная карта построения доверительного партнерства и апробирована на предприятии ООО «Компания Хангири».

Партнерские межфирменные отношения в сфере малого бизнеса выступают не только важным составным элементом предпринимательских действий, но и необходимым условием договорных отношений. Наиболее эффективным методом повышение конкурентоспособности, а также показателей эффективности для субъектов малого бизнеса на сегодняшний день можно достичь благодаря созданию межфирменных сетей на основе партнерских отношений. Цель данной работы состоит в изучении теоретических оснований партнерских отношений для моделирования сети в сфере малого бизнеса. / Inter-firm partnerships in the field of small business are not only an important component of business activities, but also a necessary condition for contractual relations. The most effective method of improving competitiveness and efficiency indicators for small businesses today can be achieved through the creation of inter-firm networks based on partnerships. The purpose of this work is to study the theoretical foundations of partnerships for network modeling in the field of small business.