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Reflexivity in Teams: A Measure and Correlates

Schippers, Schippers, M.C.; den Hartog, den Hartog, D.N.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

Reflexivity -the extent to which teams reflect upon and modify their functioning- has been identified as a possible key factor in the effectiveness of work teams. The aim of the present study was to develop a questionnaire to measure (aspects of) reflexivity, with a focus on team reflection. The...

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Attractive Supervisors: How Does the Gender of the Supervisor Influence the Performance of the Supervisees?

Koellinger, Philipp; Block, Joern H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2012

A series of field and laboratory experiments were conducted in which single-sex groups of male or female students competed in different intellectual tasks to earn money or university grades (N = 291). The supervisor of these groups was one of several young and attractive males or females. The...

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Making Retail Supply Chains Sustainable: Upgrading Opportunities for Developing Country Suppliers under Voluntary Quality Standards

van Wijk, van Wijk, J.C.A.C.; Danse, Danse, M.; van … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

This paper examines the sustainability claims of private quality standards, voluntary adopted by supermarket to improve … the quality of products in respect of food safety, and environmental and social sustainability. The concept of … reports of an explorative analysis on the perceived effects of 36 quality standards in the retail on upgrading. Data was …

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Is China a Leviathan?

Zhu, Zhu, Z.; Krug, Krug, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

To address the problem why China, as a communist country, moves in the opposite direction when the public sector has undergoing a continuous growth in most Western economies since the World War I, we offer a new approach that the de facto fiscal decentralization curtails government size in...

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The Relationship between Ethical Culture and Unethical Behavior in Work Groups: Testing the Corporate Ethical Virtues Model

Kaptein, Kaptein, S.P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

The Corporate Ethical Virtues Model, which is a model for measuring the ethical culture of organizations, has not been tested on its predictive validity. This study tests the relationship between this model and observed unethical behavior in work groups. The sample consists of 301 triads...

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Do Foreign Greenfields Outperform Foreign Acquisitions or Vice Versa? An Institutional Perspective

Slangen, Slangen, A.H.L.; Hennart, J-F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

Prior studies of the comparative performance of greenfields and acquisitions have advanced competing arguments, with some arguing that greenfields should outperform acquisitions because acquisitions are costlier to integrate, and others that acquisitions should outperform greenfields because...

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Large Family and Founder Firms

Block, Joern H.; Wagner, Wagner, M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

Based on arguments about long-term orientation and corporate reputation, we argue that family and founder firms differ from other firms with regard to corporate social responsibility. Using Bayesian analysis, we then show that family and founder ownership are associated with a lower level of...

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The Clean Development Mechanism: Institutionalizing New Power Relations

Wittneben, Wittneben, B.B.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

The differences in the way climate change mitigation projects are facilitated under the Kyoto Protocol as compared to the financial mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) demonstrate institutional change processes that evolved from global climate change...

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Can the Office Environment Stimulate a Manager’s Creativity?

Dul, Jan; Ceylan, Ceylan, C.; Aytac, Aytac, S. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

This paper explores whether the manager’s physical office work environment can stimulate the manager’s creativity. A total of 60 managers from a large manufacturing company participated in the study. They rated the creativity potential and physical elements of office environments shown in 25...

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Projected Destination Images on African Websites: Upgrading Branding Opportunities in the Global Tourism Value Chain

van Wijk, van Wijk, J.C.A.C.; Go, Go, F.M.; Govers, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

This paper explores whether websites that offer a global audience virtual access to watering holes in game parks afford African nations opportunities to diminish their international isolation as tourism destinations. The present analysis examines a sample of almost 450 tourism websites...

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