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Human resource development and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Boakye, Jacob - 1995

is high, and the education does not respond sufficiently to labor market requirements, nor engender self …-employment opportunities. Inadequate agricultural production, nutrition, health care, poor female education, and excessive population growth …Population growth was associated with reduced investment in higher education, resulting in indeterminacy of its …

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Public Policy and Entrepreneurship: The Development of the Competitive Local Telephone Service Industry.

Neuman, Eric J. - 2008

In this dissertation, I examine how political environments influence industry structure and entrepreneurial opportunities following deregulation. Though deregulation implies a removal of government control, I propose that deregulation remains a political process that is shaped by previous...

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Is It Better to Forget? Stimulus-Response, Prediction, and the Weight of Past Experience in a Fast-Paced Bargaining Task

Gibson, Faison P. - 2002

Decision makers in dynamic environments such as air traffic control, firefighting, and call center operations adapt in real-time using outcome feedback. Understanding this adaptation is important for influencing and improving the decisions made. Recently, stimulus-response (S-R) learning models...

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Finding Optimal Targets for Change Agents: A Computer Simulation of Innovation Diffusion

Maienhofer, Dirk; Finholt, Thomas A. - 2002

We introduce a diffusion of innovation model based on a network threshold approach. Realistic network and threshold data were gathered regarding the diffusion of new software tools within part of a large organization. Novel model features are a second threshold for innovation rejection and a...

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Supporting Learning in Evolving Dynamic Environments

Gibson, Faison P. - 2003

In dynamic decision environments such as direct sales, customer support, and electronically mediated bargaining, decision makers execute sequences of interdependent decisions under time pressure. Past decision support systems have focused on substituting for decision makers' cognitive deficits...

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The Creation and Performance of Classification Schemes: Rating Systems in United States Broker-Dealers 1993-2000.

Fleischer, Anne Bowers - 2008

In the past few years, organizational researchers have found a renewed interest in categorization and its consequences. Most research focuses on the consequences of categorization for the categorized objects, arguing that a clear identity is important for users to understand (and thus value) an...

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The effect of demographic change on firms' human resource policies

Reavlin, Lisa Diane - 1990

This research focuses on the current shortage of young workers as a result of the baby bust cohort now entering the labor force. Previous studies have shown that the young workers of the baby boom cohort experienced lower relative earnings and higher unemployment because of their large cohort...

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Reality and rhetoric: Sources of power for the human resource department in organizations

Galang, Maria Carmen Castrence - 1994

Commentaries have been made on the increasing influence of human resource management (HRM) in organizations. However …

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Worker behavior and motivation in employee-owned firms: Evidence from Brazil and the U.S

Ros, Agustin Jose - 1994

firm. Worker effort is variable and directly related to the internal operations of the firm including management …

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Employment adjustment in steel industry: The U.S. and Japan compared

Park, Ho Hwan - 1992

This study purports to compare employment adjustment process in steel industry between the U.S. and Japan in the period 1974-1988. In response to production decline after the Oil Shock of 1973, Japanese steel companies reduced working hours, but not employment. In the 1980s, however, they...

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