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Purchasing Organization and Design: A Literature Review

Glock, Christoph H.; Hochrein, Simon - In: BuR - Business Research 4 (2011) 2, pp. 149-191

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive literature review of the organization of purchasing covering the period from 1967 to 2009. The review provides a structured overview of prior research topics and findings and identifies gaps in the existing literature that may be addressed in...

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How the Entrepreneurial Top Management Team Setup Influences Firm Performance and the Ability to Raise Capital: A Literature Review

Maschke, Konstantin; zu Knyphausen-Aufseß, Dodo - In: BuR - Business Research 5 (2012) 1, pp. 83-123

This paper reviews research findings on entrepreneurial top management teams within the last 20 years. It concentrates on team-based management factors and their influence on a new venture's growth and ability to raise capital. This paper integrates recent findings and provides an overview of...

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Benefits of the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards: A literature review

Tarí, Juan José; Molina-Azorín, José Francisco; … - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 5 (2012) 2, pp. 297-322

(including environmental performance for the case of the ISO 14001 standard) by scholars. It is suggested that both standards … have clear benefits on operational, people and customer results and that the effects on financial performance are … performance, and customer satisfaction in order to expand this search. Originality/Value: The main contribution is that the paper …

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Race Meets Bargaining in Product Development

Karagözoglu, Emin; Keskin, Kerim; Saglam, Cagri - 2020

We introduce a model of product development in a firm. Our model describes the process as a multi-stage contest (i.e., race) with an endogenous length (with one stage or two stages) between two workers. We model the payments to workers from the new product using the normatively appealing Nash...

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How to set budget caps for competitive grants

De Chiara, Alessandro; Iossa, Elisabetta - 2019

We study how funding agencies should set budget caps for competitive grants. We show that budget caps influence the researchers' submission strategy and, in particular, whether they steer their project choice towards the agencies' favorite projects, and the level of funds they request. The...

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Co-Determination, Efficiency, and Productivity

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Kraft, Kornelius - 2004

We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board-level co-determination. Although our data span two severe recessions when labour hoarding costs of co-determination are probably highest, and the panel is too short to capture the...

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Organisational Leadership: How Much Does It Matter?

Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2022

We study the influence of leadership on organisational performance and worker wellbeing using data from the 2004 and … organisational performance, and an increase in worker wellbeing. Specifically, the estimates reveal that an increase in leadership … quality by one standard deviation increases organisational performance and worker job satisfaction by 0.27 and 0.73 standard …

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Perspektive der Industrie in Deutschland

Gornig, Martin; Schiersch, Alexander - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 84 (2015) 1, pp. 37-54

Der Wandel der globalen Industrieproduktion in den letzten 15 Jahren ist vor allem durch den Aufstieg Chinas zur Industrienation gekennzeichnet. Die Marktanteilsgewinne Chinas führten insbesondere zu relativen Verlusten bei der Industrieproduktion in den USA und Westeuropa. In vielen westlichen...

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Russia's experience of foresight implementation in global value chain research

Meshkova, Tatiana A.; Moiseichev, Evgenii IA. - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 5 (2016) 9, pp. 1-35

The objective of this paper is to analyse the scope for improving empirical and methodological foundation of global value chain (GVC) research and for making relevant political decisions, primarily through application of foresight methodology based on the latest trend to combine the approaches...

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Job creation and trade in manufactures: Industry-level analysis across countries

Shiferaw, Admasu; Hailu, Degol - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5 (2016) 3, pp. 1-36

This paper examines industry-level responses of manufacturing employment in the context of globalization using a large sample of developed, developing, and transition economies. We find that developing countries need atypically high rates of value-added growth (about 10 %) to increase...

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