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This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … siblings to capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even … after controlling for several individual and family-level characteristics …
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Administration in organizations emerged as a specific field of inquiry for social sciences in the middle of the twentieth century. Herbert Simon has defined a program that allows social sciences to move from principles to concepts about action and action taking. Four main perspectives of...
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This article examines the implementation of The Principles of Action (Lafarge Group) in a Jordanian subsidiary. Two visions of life coexist in Jordan: a tribal vision with a group-based social hierarchy, and an in-group solidarity, a strong sense of honour; an Islamic vision based upon fairness...
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En 2011, 48% des risk managers prennent leurs fonctions dans le cadre d’une création de poste. La proportion de directeurs du développement durable ayant pris leurs fonctions dans le cadre d’une création de poste l’année suivante est voisine. Ces chiffres sont la quantification d’un...
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This chapter explores how national cultural differences between partners involved in a contractual relationship may interfere with the development of trust. This is illustrated through a case study of a management contract signed by a French private company (Promostate) and public Lebanese...
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Multiple and often competing conceptualizations of culture have offered development thinking both a framework and a … behaviour, or levels of technology. They have also offered different visions of the relationship between culture and development … difficulty in grasping the articulation between the role of culture (suspected of bringing back “tradition”) and individual …
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Culture, a popular though complex concept, has been recognized to influence implementation and usages of Information … them focus on the organizational and/or the national culture as surrogates to evaluate the role of culture within IS … contexts. In this paper we categorize, from existing literature, different conceptions of culture rooted in diverse disciplines …
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Countries referred to as “developing” are being urged more and more to reform their “investment climate”. It is often said that a “good” investment climate leads to both increased economic growth and reduced poverty. In these countries, corrupt government, clientelism, a lack of...
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