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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 …

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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...

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Productivity Implications of Employee Performance Appraisal System : A Critical Survey.

Subramaniam, Dr. VSR - EconWPA - 2004

=============================================================== DOCTORAL (Ph.D) RESEARCH WORK OF DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM IN JAMNALAL BAJAJ INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES. UNIVERSITY OF BOMBAY …. INDIA. (1975). The First Doctrate awarded in the area of Management, after the inception of this Subject in the University … / Local Management Experts and a Professor in Management from a highly accredited Foreign accredited University [Manchester …

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Knowledge Management: Are We Missing Something?

Hildreth, Paul; Wright, Peter; Kimble, Chris - EconWPA - 2005

distributed international environment is becoming an essential part of Knowledge Management (KM), although this area does not yet … weakness of the current approach to KM, equating more with Information Management than Knowledge Management. Soft knowledge is …

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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...

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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 …

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Corporate Governance and Management Succession in Family Businesses

Phan, Phillip; Butler, John E.; Lee, Soo Hoon - EconWPA - 2005

Family businesses carry the weight of economic wealth creation in most economies. In the U.S. alone, family businesses account for 80 to 90 percent of the 18-million business enterprises in the United States, and 50 percent of the employment and GNP. In many ways, the family business is...

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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...

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Jeopardy, non-public information, and insider trading around SEC 10-K and 10-Q filings

Huddart, Steven; Ke, Bin; Shi, Charles - EconWPA - 2005

Evidence contrasting insider trades in the U.S. between high- and low- jeopardy periods and across firms at high and low risk for 10b-5 litigation indicates insiders condition their trades on foreknowledge of price-relevant public disclosures, but avoid profitable trades when jeopardy due to...

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On the Nature of the Corrupt Firm: Where to Situate Liability?

Seubert, Raphaela - EconWPA - 2005

interaction effects between firm-internal delegation relationships, the possibly devilish side function of formal corporate ethics … theoretical framework, a bundle of implications follows: (1) conditions under which formal corporate ethics guidelines can take on … ethics efforts, (3) starts how to avoid the possible “second-order” lack of credibility of such credibility- enhancing …

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