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Race to the future: Innovations in gifted and enrichment education in Asia, and implications for the United States

Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-25

How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills-including creativity, innovation, and technical capability-to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate education policy and practice into a key component of...

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Race to the Future: Innovations in Gifted and Enrichment Education in Asia, and Implications for the United States

Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-25

How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills—including creativity, innovation, and technical capability—to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate education policy and practice into a key component...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393784

The effect of monetary incentives on individual and organizational performance in an Italian public institution

Cainarca, Gian Carlo; Delfino, Francesco; Ponta, Linda - In: Administrative Sciences 9 (2019) 3, pp. 1-19

This paper addresses the role of monetary incentives with regard to the performance of employees and organizations. The distribution of monetary incentives among employees in public administration has been investigated. Specifically, the traditional approach of bureaucracy that pays a premium to...

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The role of monetary incentives: Bonus and/or stimulus

Ponta, Linda; Delfino, Francesco; Cainarca, Gian Carlo - In: Administrative Sciences 10 (2020) 1, pp. 1-18

In this paper, the role of the monetary incentives in the employee performance is investigated in the context of Public Administration (PA). In particular, the distribution of monetary incentives among the employees based on the position held, is compared with a merit approach which tends to...

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Empirical analysis of strategic management in inter-governmental organization

Wan, James; Wang, Ling; Saade, Raafat; Guan, Hong; Liu, Hao - In: Administrative Sciences 12 (2022) 3, pp. 1-26

In this study, we present a strategic change theoretical model and empirically validate it in the context of inter-governmental organizations. We followed a survey methodology approach and tested our model hypotheses using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Traditional strategic...

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Meetings as an arena for coordination in crisis: The county governor's contingency coordination through the county emergency council in Norway

Bjørkquist, Catharina; Hansen, Gunnar Vold; Ramsdal, Helge - In: Administrative Sciences 12 (2022) 4, pp. 1-15

and performed coordination through the CEC. We found that the CEC meetings could be seen as hybrids of organization …

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Toward a collaborative, transformative model of non-profit leadership: Some conceptual building blocks

Osula, Bramwell; Ng, Eddie C. W. - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 2, pp. 87-104

In this paper, the authors propose extending the construct of non-profit leadership to accommodate collaborative and …-profits now operate and feeds into a more resilient model of non-profit leadership. The paper begins with a review of emergent … trends in leadership theory and the changing context of the non-profit sector. The argument is made that the extraordinary …

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Understanding cultural difference management through Charles Taylor's philosophy: Case studies from the food processing industry

Ouellet, Samuel Marleau; Facal, Joseph; Hébert, Louis - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 2, pp. 46-70

In this paper, we use the work of the philosopher, Charles Taylor, to investigate the role of culture on … republicanism and common spaces, we look at how culture influences the decisions regarding corporate international expansion. This …

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Survival and growth in innovative technology entrepreneurship: A mixed-methods investigation

Eliakis, Stelios; Kotsopoulos, Dimosthenis; … - In: Administrative Sciences 10 (2020) 3, pp. 1-35

Innovative technology enterprises are recognized internationally as an important pillar in modern economic activity. This paper presents the findings from a research combining qualitative and quantitative methods, with the specific goal of identifying and verifying the characteristics that...

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Transformational leadership across cultures: Follower perception and satisfaction

Caza, Arran; Caza, Brianna B.; Posner, Barry Z. - In: Administrative Sciences 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-11

which transformational leadership behaviors are universal: by examining if leaders and followers perceive transformational … leadership behaviors the same way across cultures; and by determining if the magnitude of satisfaction that followers derive from … transformational leadership behavior is the same across cultures. Survey data from 71,537 leaders and their direct reports (n = 203 …

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