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The airline industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, and one of themain industries that is affected by globalization (Harvey & Turnbull 2002, p. 1).According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA 2004), the number ofpassengers traveling on scheduled flights...
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Website der deutschen Tageszeitung "Die Welt". [Redaktion EconBiz]Das kostenfreie Archiv von WELT online beinhaltet alle Artikel, die seit Mai 1995 in der Internetausgabe der WELT erschienen sind. Das kostenfreie E-Paper-Archiv enthält alle Ausgaben von Die Welt und Die Welt am Sonntag seit...
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The functionality of organizational routines, i.e. the factual value for accomplishing theirpurposes, is an important constraint on the capabilities an organization can bring to bear on itsoperations. Often falling short of its potential, the actual make-up of organizational routinesinvites...
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There is no doubt that management practices are linked to the productivity and performance of a company. However, research findings are mixed. This paper provides a multi-disciplinary review of the current evidence of such a relationship and offers suggestions for further exploration...
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This paper discusses the theory and evidence behind the logic of business process outsourcing, with a specific focus on …
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Economic evaluation of projects involving changes in mortality risk conventionally assumesthat lives are statistical, i.e., that risks and policy-induced changes in risk are small andsimilar among a population. In reality, baseline mortality risks and policy-induced changes inrisk often differ...
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This paper analyses the consequences of multinational corporations’ (MNCs) movetowards integrated transnational networks (ITNs) which leads to an increase in theinterdependency of organizational entities. We suggest that this increased interdependencyrequires new ways of coordination that...
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The internationalization of business within the last fifty years has led to a growing importanceof international human resource management (IHRM) (see, for example, Dowling et al. 1994,Desatnick and Bennet 1977, Evans et al. 2002 or Harzing/van Ruysseveldt 1995). Especiallythe role of...
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A characteristic feature of economic development is the ever changing structure ofconsumption patterns. Reducing the explanation of this phenomenon to changingprices, finally caused by changes in the availability of goods (or characteristics),would neglect a major force driving this change, i.e....
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