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This paper provides examples of internal and external validity from empirical qualitative peer-reviewed academic articles relating to project management in the oil and gas industry. The paper is divided into four sections highlighting internal validity, inferential external validity, theoretical external validity, and a discussion. Internal validity refers to the ‘truth value’ of the research, allowing the researcher to demonstrate a level of truth or believability in their research (Newman & Benz, 1998), specifically referring to “the causal relationships between variables and results” (Gibbert, Ruigrok, & Wicki, 2008, p. 1466). Olsen et al. (2008) address internal validity as follows: Regarding internal validity, ...

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Advancing in the global economy implies adjusting to increased competition, which requires higher productivity. Yet, increased productivity occurs when the occupational environment offers safe and pleasant working conditions. Contrarily, working environment highly exposed to occupational risks and hazard that may cause accidents, illness and even death lose their competitiveness at the cause of absenteeism, employees’ insurance expenditures orpotential trials (Stranks, 2005).

Statistics conducted by International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations (UN) agree in their estimations that there are 279 million occupational accidents and 160 million diseases associated with the working ...

Process safety in offshore oil and gas industry: a review of the present and future practices

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Oil and gas industry keeps playing an increasingly significant role in the global economy. Nowadays the world consumes over 30 billion barrels of oil per year, and despite all the innovations in alternative energy, this figure doesn’t seem to decrease in the foreseeable future. Offshore drilling, or extraction of oil through the seabed, is currently no less popular than other forms of extraction. In the Gulf of Mexico alone there are over 3.5 thousand oil platforms in use, and other areas of seaborne oil extraction like the North Sea, West African coast, Brazil, Azerbaijan and Sakhalin ...

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The logistics management involves the supply chain management that is charged with the responsibility of planning, implementing and controlling the efficient forwarding and the reverse flow of goods and the storage of the goods. It involves all the processes that take place from the time a good or service is produced to the time it will be consumed by the consumers. These must all be done in order to meet the use requirements (Lichtenstein, 1996). There are several risks that are involved during the time a given commodity is being transported from the point of production to the time it will ...

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Franchise management strategies 4 Success factors 4 Importance of franchising 5 Main pillars of franchising success 6 Business model 6 Standardization of processes and operation 6 Potential expansion of business 6 Profile of the franchisee 7 Defining the role of the parties 7 Part 2: KMC franchise in UK 7 The selected company 7 Background of KMC 7 Success factors 8 Franchising In UK 8 A background on franchising 8 Growth and future of franchising ...

The construction industry plays a significant role in economic growth; it is hence necessary to put in place measures and strategies to ensure the growth of this sector. Risk and value management are two approaches that are used to mitigate risk and add substantive value to such projects in an attempt to increase success of construction projects. This proposal calls for research on how the two approaches can be integrated to help promote growth in construction projects. The research seeks to achieve this objective by using both secondary and primary data. Secondary data will be collected from available literature whereas ...