Entrepreneurial Resources as a Driver of Performance Differences in a Quick Service Restaurant Franchise System

This study explored performance differences between corporate-owned Bike Parts - Forks and operated and franchised outlets in the quick-service restaurant (QSR) industry.While studies have shown that there is a performance difference favouring franchisees, the reasons for this difference have not been explained.Using the Resource-Based View of the

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The World of Anaconda: the myth of the snake-canoe and its relationship with the stilt villages from eastern amazon

Amazonian ethnography relies on a world created by an anaconda, an ancestral creator.The story that myths tell is that the Amazon River is the metaphor of an anaconda; a large, meandering reptile.While the Anaconda sails along the kubotan great river, it populates the riverbanks, creating the Indian villages along its margins.This is why the anacon

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Control of Reactive Oxygen Species through Antioxidant Enzymes Plays a Pivotal Role during the Cultivation of Neopyropia yezoensis

Neopyropia yezoensis is an economically important marine crop that can survive dehydrating conditions when nets are lifted from seawater.During this process, production of oxygen radicals and the resulting up-regulation of antioxidant enzymes mediated by the abscisic acid (ABA) signaling pathway played an important role.However, there were no repor

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How Christian Universities Respond to Extremism

This research article explores how two English universities with Anglican foundations responded to UK government requirements to counter radicalization on campus.Semi-structured VIRAFECT interviews were conducted with student union representatives, senior staff in the universities responsible for implementing the legal requirements and also those w

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