Determining the Level of Institutionalization in Family-Owned Shipping Businesses

the effect of authentic listening materials on the listening proficiency of efl learners in the intermediate level

having conducted the experiment and analysed the data, the researcher computed the groups mean scores and variances for the test relating to the research question. as the final atep, a t-test was conodonted for the hypothesis. as noted earlier, the significance level was determined at .05 and .01 respectively. the observed t-value was higher than the critical t-value at. 5 and .01 levels. conse...

the effect of using critical discourse analytical tools on the improvement of the learners level of critical thinking in reading comprehension

?it is of utmost priority for an experienced teacher to train the mind of the students, and enable them to think critically and correctly. the most important question here is that how to develop such a crucial ability? this study examines a new way to the development of critical thinking utilizing critical discourse analytical tools. to attain this goal, two classes of senior english la...

Strategy Diversity in Australian Family Owned Businesses: Impact of environment induced constraints

With an ever changing economic climate many businesses find it difficult to survive. Small firms are continually going out of business in the early stages of their life. According to the Queensland Small Business Development Corporation, the small business failure rate is high with two-thirds of all such businesses started failing within their first five years of operation (SBDC, 1990). The maj...

Employee Owned Businesses – Access to Funding

The Level of Institutionalization in International Cooperation

1 Introduction Why do some international cooperations have solid structures governing interactions, whereas others are loosely united groups? For example, there are international organizations that have apparatuses for monitoring behavior of participant states, bureaucratic system, and so forth, such as World Trade Organization, while there also exists merely a series of meetings for cooperatio...