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On the Nature of the Corrupt Firm: Where to Situate Liability?
Seubert, Raphaela - EconWPA - 2005
ethics. These implications allow comparatively evaluating the effectiveness of international anti- corruption laws …
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Russias financial markets boom, crisis and recovery 1995-2001, Lessons for Emerging Markets Investors
Sueppel, Ralph - EconWPA - 2002
From 1995 to 2001 Russia witnessed an asset market boom, a deep financial crisis, and a surprisingly forceful recovery … a convergence of Russia’s economic structures with those in Central and Western Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561251
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Communities of Practice: Going One Step Too Far?
Kimble, Chris; Hildreth, Paul - EconWPA - 2005
n the late 1990s, Knowledge Management (KM) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) seemed inseparable. CoPs appeared to offer the key to reversing the failure of some of the earlier technologically based attempts to manage knowledge. However, the original CoP concept was built around a very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076861
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Heuristic methods for cost-oriented assembly line balancing: a comparison on solution quality and computing time
Amen, Matthias - EconWPA - 2003
This paper is focused on the solution quality and computing time requirements of heuristic methods for cost-oriented assembly line balancing. It is based on a recent paper (Amen, International Journal of Production Economics 68 (2000), which describes in detail the solution process of existent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125666
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Productivity Implications of Employee Performance Appraisal System : A Critical Survey.
Subramaniam, Dr. VSR - EconWPA - 2004
The Productivity of any organisation is directly correlated to the Effectiveness of the Employee Performance Appraisal … System, subject to the Effectiveness of the Support Systems, depending upon the type of organizational business. INFERENCE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134427
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Knowledge Management: Are We Missing Something?
Hildreth, Paul; Wright, Peter; Kimble, Chris - EconWPA - 2005
As commercial organisations face up to modern pressures to downsize and outsource they have begun to realise that they have lost knowledge as people leave and take with them what they know. This knowledge is increasingly being recognised as an important resource and organisations are now taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134487
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Heuristic methods for cost-oriented assembly line balancing: a survey
Amen, Matthias - EconWPA - 2003
This paper is concerned with cost-oriented assembly line balancing. This problem occurs especially in the final assembly of automotives, consumer durables or personal computers, where production is still very labour- intensive, and where the wage rates depend on the requirements and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062747
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Computer Mediated Communications and Communities of Practice
Hildreth, Paul; Kimble, Chris; Wright, Peter - EconWPA - 2005
Within the Knowledge Management context, there is growing interest in computer support for group knowledge sharing and the role that Communities of Practice play in this. Communities of Practice are groups of individuals with a common purpose and who share some background, language or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412885
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Corporate Governance and Management Succession in Family Businesses
Phan, Phillip; Butler, John E.; Lee, Soo Hoon - EconWPA - 2005
firm effectiveness in the family business. It links aspects of succession planning and successor preparation to the … effectiveness of transition and from performance. The model depicts multiple interactive relationships, with emphasis placed not … only on the planning and process-specific but also on successor-specific factors that lead to effectiveness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412922
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An exact method for cost-oriented assembly line balancing
Amen, Matthias - EconWPA - 2003
After a characterization of the cost-oriented assembly line balancing problem it will be shown that by loading the stations maximally the cost-oriented optimum can be missed. Instead of loading the stations maximally the criterion two-stations-rule a has to be used. For generating optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556695