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Social psychology and gender efficiency wage gap

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Our paper introduces the dimension of social psychology in a model of efficiency wages and gender diversity. In this context, we show that women earn lower wages than men but provide in return relatively less effort. Therefore in order to increase women's productivity, the firm increases their...

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Testing Kahneman's Attitudinal WTP Hypothesis

Ryan, Anthony M.; Spash, Clive L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

A psychological interpretation of willingness to pay (WTP) bids arising from the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) claims they represent a general contribution towards environmental causes rather than a personal economic valuation. Yet the evidence supporting this contribution model has been...

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The lived experience of an American expatriate in Ghana: A rhetorical analysis of facebook postings to understand a cross-cultural behavior

Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Using rhetorical analyses of the Facebook updates and postings, the lived experience of an American Expatriate in Ghana is told through the lenses of a Ghanaian living in the United States. The study reviews the contemporary understanding and importance of expatriation to organizations and...

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Podniková identita ako konkurenčná výhoda

Misun, Juraj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Corporate identity, which has been in the middle of interest of practice for almost 40 years, is still a very important instrument in the field of Marketing and Management despite the currently unfavourable economic situation. Although consumers are checking prices the further the more, brand...

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M&A and post merger integration in banking industry: the missing link of corporate culture

Carretta, Alessandro; Farina, Vincenzo; Schwizer, Paola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

for the banking industry (e.g., competencies, competition, customer, disclosure, human resources, innovation, risk) and on …

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Further examination of the organizational culture scale of artifacts

Bonavia, Tomas; Molina, Gabriel; Boada, Joan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The construct validity of a 10-item Organizational Culture Scale Focused on Artifacts oriented to measure traditional culture was analyzed under the unidimensionality hypothesis of the scale. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to assess the unidimensional structure, which took into...

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Adaptación al castellano y estructura factorial del «Denison Organizational Culture Survey»

Bonavia, Tomas; Prado, Vicente; Barberá, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This article presents a Spanish adaptation of Denison Organizational Culture Survey, a questionnaire designed to evaluate organizational culture. This survey consists of 60 items, grouped in 12 sub-scales, which identify 4 cultural dimensions. These dimensions have been widely study and their...

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Virgin Finance: Sir Richard Brandson’s pursuit of a significant presence in retail financial services

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Kase, Kimio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This teaching case study tells of the foundation and growth of the Virgin Group over the forty years to 2010. The creation of over 300 business interests in parts as far afield as the UK, South Africa, Australia and the USA resulted from a unique management style. Branson and the Virgin brand...

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Analysis of Innovation and Energy Profiles in the Turkish Manufacturing Sector

Okay, Nesrin; Konukman, Alp Er S.; Akman, Ugur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We present Turkey’s manufacturing-sector innovation data and, for the first time, analyze likely relationships among … GDP growth, sectoral innovation intensities, energy consumptions, and energy-saving potentials. We detect a power … observe that the energy consumptions of the sectors do not change significantly despite varying innovation levels during …

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Prizes and Lemons: Procurement of Innovation under Imperfect Commitment

Ding, Wei; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The literature on R&D contests implicitly assumes that contestants submit their innovation regardless of its value …

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