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Governance and executive compensation
Forbes, William - 2011
This title is an authoritative selection of the most important papers investigating the complex and controversial issue of governance and executive compensation. Professor Forbes includes seminal material on the history, rationale and prospects for executive pay and its impact upon corporate...
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Innovation in technology alliance networks
Lemmens, Charmianne E. A. V. - 2004
This book studies the dynamics of alliance group formation in technology-based networks. The author attempts to develop the concept of alliance blocks from a social network perspective, and explores the relationship between alliance block membership and innovative performance in a changing...
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Business relating business : managing organisational relations and networks
Wilkinson, Ian F. - 2008
Business Relating Business argues that business performance depends on the way a firm is connected to other firms and organisations and not just its own skill and resources. The book synthesises thinking from marketing, management, economics and international business with evolutionary biology...
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Handbook on the knowledge economy : Volume two
Rooney, David (contributor); Hearn, Greg (contributor);  … - 2012
open innovation, wellbeing, and digital work that managers and policymakers are increasingly asked to respond to …
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The entrepreneurial culture : network advantage within Chinese and Irish software firms
Tsang, Denise - 2006
The Entrepreneurial Culture highlights the subtle yet powerful influence of national cultural heritage on entrepreneurship ventures, using an alternative and fresh approach to explore the entrepreneurial culture of Chinese and Irish software firms. This book presents a unique analysis of...
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Research handbook on entrepreneurial teams : theory and practice
Ben-Hafaïedh, Cyrine (contributor);  … - 2017
Contents: Foreword / Mike Wright -- 1. Introduction / Cyrine Ben-Hafaïedh and Thomas M. Cooney -- Part I Learning from theory and practice -- 2. Entrepreneurial teams research in movement / Cyrine Ben-Hafaïedh -- 3. Urban legends or sage guidance: a review of common advice about...
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Recent developments in the economics of executive compensation
Kolb, Robert W. (contributor) - 2016
Jonas Vlachos (2008), 'Do Entrenched Managers Pay Their Workers More?', Journal of Finance, LXIV (1), February, 309 …-40 -- Katharina Lewellen (2006), 'Financing Decisions When Managers Are Risk Averse', Journal of Financial Economics, 82 (3), December …), February, 271-95 -- M.P. Narayanan and H. Nejat Seyhun (2008), 'The Dating Game: Do Managers Designate Option Grant Dates to …
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Fair wages : strengthening corporate social responsibility
Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel - 2010
Over the last decade the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has contributed towards better corporate governance by tackling such burning issues as child labour and basic human rights violations. However, as the author argues in this important new book, the time has now come to...
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Sustainable cities : diversity, economic growth and social cohesion
Janssens, Madeleine (contributor) - 2009
This book focuses on cities, their relationships with each other and the disparities between them. Analysing cities as the places where diversity is especially apparent, where cultural richness is experienced and where conflicts often erupt, it illustrates how cultures and cultural diversity...
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The economics of non-selfish behaviour : decisions to contribute money to public goods
Meier, Stephan - 2006
In standard economic theory human beings are portrayed as selfish money-maximizing actors. This book investigates the conditions under which people deviate from this prediction and when they are prepared to contribute to the common good in a more altruistic fashion. Based on field experiments...
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