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proportions of employees receiving performance related pay were significantly less likely to be exporters. Manufacturing firms and …
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Recent years have seen the introduction of markets and a system of private property rights in China with a view to changing the composition of production and demand and enhancing welfare. Central to the success of these reforms is the rise of entrepreneurship with its potential to set the...
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Innovation is an important area of management theory, but there is a paucity of research on innovation in project based firms. Project based firms are simultaneously becoming a more vital and important organisational context, exemplifying many current managerial challenges. In this paper we...
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This paper attempts to develop concepts of project and contract organization to predict the selection of contract type on infrastructure projects. Conventional wisdom is that at low risk fixed price contracts are best, moving to remeasurement and then cost plus as risk increases. We started...
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There is a growing interest in theory and in practice with regard to the relationship between human resource management [HRM] and total quality management [TQM] as well as the relationship between these two perspectives and business performances. Empirical research suggests significant effects...
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We present the various views and methods of measuring and controlling project performance, and factors affecting a …. However, the presence of various measurement methods, in addition to diverse interest groups, makes performance decision …
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This paper employs the methodology of Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) to investigate under what conditions trust can be viable in markets. The emergence and breakdown of trust is modeled in a context of multiple buyers and suppliers. Agents adapt their trust in a partner, the weight...
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governance modes negatively affects the performance of component innovation projects. …
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Leadership often serves as an explanatory category for performance outcomes (i.e., failure and success). This process … can strengthen or weaken leadership effectiveness, because contingent on their performance leaders may gain or lose … leader group prototypicality and performance information interact to predict followers’ perceptions of leadership …
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Terrorism is not a natural hazard outside the range of corporate decision-making. Simple micro-economic analysis shows how globalisation changed the supply of terrorist attacks and the costs for tolerating terrorist hazard. Approaches developed in organizational strategy help to single out three...
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