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Service quality modelling for life insurance business using neural networks

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 2011
Running a successful life insurance company is about right structuring the life insurance products, which calls for minimising the performance-expectation gap. The life insurance business is not just about paying claims, but involves multiple expectations from various stakeholders.
Anand Prakash, R.P. Mohanty, S.P. Kallurkar   +2 more
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Quality of Work Life and the Small Business.

Academy of Management Proceedings, 1983
This paper reports on a successful four year Quality of Work Life programs undertaken at a small suburban community service organization.
Peter F. Sorensen, Thomas C. Head
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From Business Development to Quality of Life

Outlook on Agriculture, 2006
Despite billions of euros of economic and infrastructural support, East Germany has experienced neither economic recovery in the form of the ‘flourishing landscapes' promised by Helmut Kohl in 1989, nor a boom in innovation. Instead, the region is undergoing processes of accelerating demographic change: declining birth rates, selective migration ...
Stephan Beetz, Claudia Neu
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Using Geo-Business Intelligence to improve Quality of Life

2012 IEEE First AESS European Conference on Satellite Telecommunications (ESTEL), 2012
The Geo-Business Intelligence or Localization Intelligence is a collection of technologies that combines Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Business Intelligence (BI) for evaluation of the results achieved, planning and decision-making. The merging of these two technologies, by connecting large amounts of data, provides a powerful visualization ...
ANGELACCIO, MICHELE, Basili, A, BUTTARAZZI, BERTA, Liguori, W.   +3 more
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The Role of Quality of Life in Business (Re)Location Decisions

Journal of Business Research, 1999
Abstract Key decision-makers from 174 businesses that had relocated, expanded, or been launched in Colorado within the most recent 5-year period were surveyed to identify the role of quality-of-life (QOL) elements in their decision. A comprehensive set of elements considered by businesses in location decisions was developed, and their relative ...
Lisa L Love, John L Crompton
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A win‐win paradigm for quality of work life and business performance

Human Resource Development Quarterly, 1998
AbstractThis study develops and tests hypotheses to examine empirically how the perceived image of a company's quality of work life will affect its market and financial performances. Growth and profitability of two groups of publicly held companies were compared based on sales growth, asset growth, return on equity, and return on assets.
Lau, Ronald Siu Man, May, B.E.
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Business students’ hardiness and its role in quality of university life, quality of life, and learning performance

Education + Training, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the hardiness of university business students. Overall hardiness, and its individual components of commitment, control and challenge, were all explored in relation to students’ quality of university life, quality of life and learning performance.
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Business Strategies for Enhancing Quality of Life in the Later Years

2010
As the earth’s population ages, businesses globally need to become more attuned to the needs of older consumers. This chapter emphasizes the importance of understanding the factors that enhance well-being in later life, and suggests strategies that can be adopted by marketers to assist consumers achieve this objective.
Moschis, G., Pettigrew, Simone
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The role of economic and quality of life values in rural business location

Journal of Rural Studies, 1995
Abstract The familiar view of job creation is that business location is largely a function of traditional economic values such as tax structure and cost of doing business. This paper examines the role of other values that may be important to the business location decision. These include the role of a quality environment, scenic beauty, low crime rate,
Jerry D. Johnson, Raymond Rasker
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DO LOCATION‐BASED TAX INCENTIVES IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE AND QUALITY OF BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT?

Journal of Regional Science, 2013
ABSTRACTWe examine how location‐based tax incentives affect quality of life and business environment through changes in property values and equilibrium wages. Using the federal Empowerment Zone program, we determine whether offering tax incentives to firms improves the welfare of the citizens and attractiveness to firms.
C. Lockwood Reynolds, Shawn Rohlin
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