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This paper investigates the relationship between locus of control and performance among Russian employees, using survey …-related attitudes that may affect performance. In particular, we focus on (1) attitudes about outcomes associated with hard work, (2 …. Our performance measures include earnings, expected promotions, and assessments of the quantity and quality of work in …
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reforms and environment have an effect on the changes in operating performance. For example, we find that privatization yields … post-privatization performance changes. In particular, economic growth, control relinquishment by the government and …
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We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … ownership improves economic performance, but domestic private ownership does not, relative to state ownership. Foreign firms … increasing profit. Ownership concentration is associated with superior performance, thus providing support to the agency theory …
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Despite unanimous agreement in the existing literature that morale influences employee performance, no well … between positive attitudes toward work and morale, and a positive correlation between performance assessment and morale …
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This paper extends the literature on organizational culture and effectiveness by examining a set of foreign-owned firms operating in Russia. Based on a large-scale empirical study of 179 firms and four in-depth case studies, this study examines the applicability of an American model of...
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patterns relating the results of working hard to performance, productivity, and doing the job well. Regression analysis … relationship between job satisfaction and performance. Three noteworthy results emerge. First, regardless of the specification or … measure, there is a strong positive correlation between job satisfaction and performance. The relationship is not affected by …
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It has long been argued that private ownership of firms leads to better firm performance. However, theory as well as … 1999- 00 ownership was no longer a significant determinant of performance; induced by competition, public sector banks were … able to eliminate the performance/efficiency gap that existed between them and domestic private sector and foreign banks. …
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and trust influence IJV success. Others maintain that ownership and control structures explain performance differences … examine the impact of all these factors on IJV performance for a sample of Eastern/Western European IJVs. We found that …
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France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical … research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head …. Our econometric analysis shows that the resource reallocation argument helps explain French export performance between the …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the decline in environmental quality in India, China and Brazil is due to release of toxic gases which is an effect of high energy consumption? If so, the increase in energy consumption is due to rapid economic growth led by industrialization? Also...
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