competitive environment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcompetitiveandenvironment
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competitive
adjective
uk/kəmˈpet.ɪ.tɪv/us/kəmˈpet̬.ə.t̬ɪv/
involving ...
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environment
noun
uk/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/us/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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In training, the key providing agencies operate in a highlycompetitiveenvironmentof contracts whose terms give priority to delivering numbers of placements.
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This argument is not sufficiently sensitive to the context of the newcompetitiveenvironmentcreated by specialty hospitals.
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Ultimately, it is thecompetitiveenvironmentin which firms operate that determines the effect of this or that ownership structure.
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Error theories for moral belief try to reduce morality to nonmoral psychological capacities because objective moral beliefs seem too fragile in acompetitiveenvironment.
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In later privatizations, such as electricity and railroads, firms were broken up prior to the sales thus creating a somewhatcompetitiveenvironment.
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Both these variables measure thecompetitiveenvironmentof within each region/round.
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To succeed in the highlycompetitiveenvironment, we have to innovate control system education.
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Similarly, closing date influences the political knowledge of aggregate voters, controlling for education and thecompetitiveenvironment.
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Indeed, each piece of legislation can be seen as partaking in a strategy of de-regulation necessitated by acompetitiveenvironment.
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In a highlycompetitiveenvironment, commoners fought each other for access to the use of streets.
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As we saw in the voyage of the strangers, a highlycompetitiveenvironmentmay significantly impede the ability of individuals to achieve their goals.
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Instead, recovery strategies may reflect post-hurricane success in acompetitiveenvironmentfor light resources.
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However, doctors who are more responsive to patients' wishes and create healthcare demand to secure their income in acompetitiveenvironmentmay induce overconsumption of healthcare services.
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They argue that such responses should be planned as part of the strategic management process, but many firms tend to focus simply on thecompetitiveenvironment.
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In thecompetitiveenvironmentin which firms operated, these features of craft control proved advantageous as firms had a very limited ability to experiment with different organizations of production.
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While there is certainly room for continued progress, the evidence strongly supports the existence of acompetitiveenvironmentunder the current structure, with boards encouraging rather than hindering reductions.
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Human resources theory would state that the plans were adopted as part of the overall compensation package to attract and retain outside directors in acompetitiveenvironmentfor director services.
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Arrival of a morecompetitiveenvironmentamong scholars and researchers must be accompanied by a system in which fair play is the enforceable rule of the game.
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When one thinks of maximizing shareholder stock value above all else in acompetitiveenvironment, then it makes sense to do everything possible to protect it.
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