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'Residual' Wage Disparity in Directed Search Equilibrium

Kennes, John; King, Ian Paul; Julien, Benoit - EconWPA - 2002

We examine how much of the observed wage dispersion among similar workers can be explained as a consequence of a lack of coordination among employers. To do this, we construct a directed search model with homogenous workers but where firms can create either good or bad jobs, aimed at either...

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MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT OF HAPPINESS : A PRIORITY IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Dr.VSR.Subramaniam - EconWPA - 2005

, Local, International and Universal in nature. Author’s Research and Development approach for these vicious combination … infers that, all nations, irrespective their level of development, should evaluate Productivity/Management Decisions with … reference to Socio-Economic Development units, and Intangible components should have priority over Tangibles (Algebraic Model …

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Stages of Growth in Economic Development

Kejak, Michal - EconWPA - 2001

The paper analyses a two-sector model of endogenous growth with two common features of economic development: stages of …

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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...

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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

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 : Technology, Systems and Manpower are linked in an...

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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...

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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 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...

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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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