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Emotions and International Conflicts: Sociological, Evolutionary and Rational Views
Khalil, Elias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In March 2005, riots erupted in South Korea against Japan for claiming sovereignty over some rocky uninhabited islets (0.23 km2). Five weeks earlier, riots did not erupt in South Korea when North Korea proved that it has nuclear weapons. How can we explain moral outrage in one case, when the...
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Plastic Money/Credit Cards Charisma for Now and Then (A Thin Line between Easy Money and Risky Money)
Hasan, Syed Akif; Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms. Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
spheres of life from one pole to another. This research is an encomium on the charisma of plastic money, its usability and … use of plastic money along with prediction of future income are the proxies of its usability and affordability. The … family and friend. While, it is also investigated and concluded that plastic money also has its usability and affordability …
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Communities of Practice and Virtual Learning Communities: Benefits, barriers and success factors
Fontainha, Elsa; Gannon-Leary, Pat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
CoPs.Critical success factors (CSFs) for a virtual CoP are discussed. These include usability of technology; trust in, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789890
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The effect of national culture on countries’ innovation efficiency
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper contributes to the link between social and cultural factors with countries innovation performance. By measuring 25 countries’ innovation efficiency with the use of conditional and unconditional DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) frontiers the paper provides empirical evidence of the...
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Investigating the cultural patterns of corruption: A nonparametric analysis
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
By using a sample of 77 countries our analysis applies several nonparametric techniques in order to reveal the link between national culture and corruption. Based on Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and the corruption perception index, the results reveal that countries with higher levels of...
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Culture as an individual process: Deficits of national cultural theories in management of cultural diversity
Lenz, Rainer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Most prevalent theories in cross cultural management reduce the variability of individual relations to one single category, the national culture. Based on the assumption that the national cultural values determine individual behavior the individual’s behavior in different national cultures...
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Cultural Constraints In Leading Malaysian SMEs To Global Markets
Hussain, Sayed Mushtaq - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Abstract: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the economic development of many countries. SMEs are also dominant in the Malaysian economy. Their contribution to the national economy, however, remains modest in terms of value added and exports. During the last 2-3...
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Towards a culture of environmental efficiency: An application of conditional partial nonparametric frontiers
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Due to the fact that norms govern individual behavior, which in turn it is related to the environmental behaviour, this study tries to establish a link between human behavior (in terms of cultural values) and the environment. With the use of robust frontiers this paper constructs countries’...
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National culture and multinational performance
Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The question of why some multinational corporations perform better than others is in the centre of the analysis of many international business disciplines and the subject of a never-ending debate. In that respect this paper provides empirical evidence by combining strategic management theories...
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Corporate disclosure determinants: a cross-country investigation
Farina, Vincenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The wave of bankruptcies that have followed one upon the other in recent years as the consequence of financial scandals and the integration among the financial systems of various countries have given rise to a search for mechanisms suitable for protecting investors and regulating growing capital...
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