When Grant Thornton is asked to submit a request for quotation, they now do a company-company relationship analysis to see who they know at the prospect and how well they know them.

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In the recent Gartner report Market Share Analysis: Customer Relationship Management Software, Worldwide, 2012 published April 18, 2013 the authors provide insights into why the worldwide CRM market experienced 12% growth in 2012, three times the average of all enterprise software categories.

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Failure to take these factors into account in the analysis distorts the true relationship.

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After recent encounters between the sides much of the post-match analysis focused on the frosty relationship between Ferguson and former Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez.

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An analysis reveals that there is a significant relationship to the prison term given as compared to how people were situated in the case (plea, amount of assistance to government, penalty, whether they went to trial, amount of money involved, etc.).

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Slaughter has found a statistically significant relationship between declining unionization and increasing foreign investment across industries in the U.S. Firm-level analysis by Bruce Fallick of the Federal Reserve Board and our colleague Kevin Hassett also finds a negative relationship between unionization and investment.

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In today's cost-benefit analysis of fighting something in court vs. damaging your relationship with your consumers, relationships win.

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In the final analysis, most manager-employee relationships (like any relationship, be it a marriage or a friendship) founder on the shoals of poor communication.

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What differentiates our analysis over existing work is that we were able to go beyond mere correlations and establish causation in the relationship between corporate governance measures and firm value.

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Any specific relationship between police numbers and murder, gun crime or public disorder is "even weaker", the analysis finds.

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