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This paper analyses the use and circulation of nternational auditing standards within a large post-Soviet Russian audit firm, as it faces up to the challenges of international harmonisation. It describes this process as one of ‘connecting worlds’ and translation. In a detailed field study...
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-line sales. Likewise, more structured management is strongly linked with superior performance: establishments adopting more … structured practices for performance monitoring, target setting and incentives enjoy greater productivity and profitability …
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to performance. For the first time we employ a Hodrick-Prescott Filter, a methodology widely used in macroeconomics to …
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the hypothesis that ownership-specific advantages are a major determinant of performance differences. This paper explores … performance issues using the eclectic paradigm configuration of hotel and hospitality multinationals (NACE=55), operating in …
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We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …
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. In a natural experiment, we study the gender difference in performance resulting from changes in stakes. We use detailed … information on the performance of high-school students and exploit the variation in the stakes of tests, which range from 5% to 27 …
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We analyze the impact of interim ranking on the risk taking and performance behaviour of professional athletes …
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In this study we examine whether a workplace can induce good or bad attitudes among its employees and whether any such ¿workplace attitudes¿ affect economic outcomes. This study analyzes responses of thousands of employees working in nearly two hundred branches to the emp loyee opinion survey...
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