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Cappelli, Peter - 2011

Franchise jobs are often described as representing the epitome of the quot;low roadquot; approach to managing employees - high turnover, little training, deskilled jobs, and little employee involvement, practices often seen as unsophisticated. Research on franchise operations suggests, however,...

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Information Technology as Knowledge Management Enabler in Product Development - An Empirical Evidence

Revilla, Elena - 2014

Product development is a knowledge intensive process. It is widely recognized as a mechanism that produces firms to learn, to enter new technological areas, and to deal more effectively with market uncertainty. Since technology management has become ingrained within the field of knowledge...

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Executive Loyalty and Employer Attributes

Hamori, Monika - 2011

An employee's attachment to their employer is one of the central topics across the social sciences. We examine an … important aspect of attachment, job search, in the context of executive jobs using a unique data set from a prominent executive … offers an improvement over previous studies on attachment, which rely on actual turnover and, as such, are confounded by …

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Improved Corporate Governance : Market Reaction and Liquidity Implications

Chavez, Gonzalo - 2009

We study the market price reaction and liquidity impact that firms experience when they are incorporated into the differentiated corporate governance listing segments of the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange. The Brazilian market is of special interest since it allows us to analyze the effect of improved...

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Limited Information Estimation and Testing of Discretized Multivariate Normal Structural Models

Maydeu Olivares, Alberto - 2007

We consider the estimation of multivariate normal structural models that have been discretized according to a set of thresholds. A popular estimation procedure for this restricted multinomial model consists in the following three stage estimator: First, estimate by maximum likelihood the...

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Thurstonian Covariance and Correlation Structures for Multiple Judgment Paired Comparison Data

Maydeu Olivares, Alberto - 2007

Thurstone's (1927) is not a proper model for multiple judgment paired comparison data as it assigns zero probabilities to all intransitive patterns. To obtain a proper model, Takane (1987) extended Thurstone's model by adding a vector of pair specific random errors. We investigate an...

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The Evolution of Real Newsboy Contracts in the US

Kraiselburd, Santiago - 2007

Perhaps the two most wildly recognized building blocks of inventory theory are the EOQ and the quot;newsboyquot; or quot;newsvendorquot; models. Moreover, almost the entire supply chain contract literature was built around the latter. The idea behind this paper is the following: before we can...

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An Updated ERP Systems Annotated Bibliography : 2001-2005

Esteves, José - 2007

This study provides an updated annotated bibliography of ERP publications published in the main IS conferences and journals during the period 2001-2005, categorizing them through an ERP lifecycle-based framework that is structured in phases. The first version of this bibliography was published...

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From Zero to Infinity : The Use of Impact Factors in the Evaluation of Economic Research in Spain

Carmona, Salvador; García-Ferrer, Antonio; Poncela, Pilar - 2007

Studies on assessments of research performance in economic departments largely rely upon such bibliometric tools as impact factors to rank a short list of journals. In the present study, we examine the use of short lists of journals in order to assess research performance in Spain - a country...

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Competitiveness and the Employment Relationship in the 21st Century : A European Perspective Returns

Allard, Gayle J.; Simón, Cristina - 2007

Competitiveness is an often ill-defined concept that is key to economic success. This paper focuses on the links between competitiveness and the employment relationship. It ranks European countries by their specialization in high-technology, skilled labor sectors to yield a competitiveness...

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