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Knowledge Transfer Based on Disseminative Capacity, Absorptive Capacity, and Learning: A Comparative Study between Brazil and Germany
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de Sousa, Paulo Renato; de Castro, José Márcio; Gohr, Claudia Fabiana; Barbosa, Marcelo Werneck – Learning Organization, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to assess suppliers' learning from knowledge transfers with a global truck manufacturer, considering both source and supplier capacity, and the cultural proximity between the parties. Design/methodology/approach: A case study was conducted between two factories, one in Brazil and one in Germany. This study adopted a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Manufacturing Industry, Motor Vehicles, Information Dissemination
Shopping in Hospitality: Situational Constructions of Customer-Vendor Relationships among Shopping Tourists at a Bazaar on the German-Polish Border
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Busch, Dominic – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2010
This article presents an analysis of a short customer-vendor dialogue between a German couple and a Polish vendor at a food bazaar on the Polish border with Germany. In this situation, interactants have to negotiate and construct framings of hospitality abroad, customer-vendor relations, as well as intercultural relations. It is assumed that…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Foreign Countries, Vendors, German
Focus on Ebooks: Report from the Frankfurt Book Fair
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Kaser, Dick – Computers in Libraries, 2009
When the author went to the Frankfurt Book Fair in mid-October in search of an ebooks update story, he learned from vendors that, in a decade-long struggle to grasp a foothold, ebooks are finally coming of age in libraries of all kinds. Though ebook's past may have been one of false hopes and nonstarts, according to all accounts, it was the…
Descriptors: Vendors, Books, Electronic Publishing, Libraries
Digitizing a Cultural Heritage--The Key Issue for Preservation and Electronic Publishing.
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Bogen, Manfred; Bonkowski, Christian; Borowski, Marion; Loffler, Jobst – 2000
This paper describes a realization approach to evaluate the best fitting service provider in the context of "The Digital Beethoven House" pilot project, involving the digitizing of a composer-referred collection of colored manuscripts and other sources at the Beethoven House Association (Germany). Practical hints for museums are provided…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods