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Information technology (IT) project managers face a multitude of stressors in their workplaces. This has implications … not only for the individual practitioners but also for their employers and society. Exactly what stressors are faced by IT …, this paper reports on an exploratory study aimed at identifying the sources of stress, coping strategies, and outcomes that …
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Most of us agree that stress is a growing problem within organizations. We hear about the postal workers who had killed … employees complain about the stress in trying to balance family life with the work. Stress is a dynamic condition in which an …
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analysis, regression analysis and structural equation modelling, the relationships amongst the causes (stressors or stress … the nature of the stress involved, a survey of construction estimators in Hong Kong was conducted. Using correlation … factors) and effects (stress) were examined and a causal structural model developed. The results indicate work overload, role …
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involved are therefore likely to experience a considerable amount of mental and emotional stress as a result of inaccurate … estimation. The types of stress can be divided into objective stress (OS), subjective stress (SS) and emotional exhaustion (EE …). The research described in this paper examined the relationships between OS, SS, EE and stressors based on a survey of …
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This paper highlights entrepreneurial expansion into an emerging market. These markets are characterised as locations moving along a dynamic path from a closed economy with government control of economic policy to an open economy with reliance on market forces and the global economy. Building...
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The existing literature on open innovation strongly emphasizes on the organizational level, while neglecting the people side and especially the perspective of employees working in OIprojects. This study analyzes determinants of R&D employees' knowledge exchange in OIprojects by means of the...
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unobservable variables: Health Status, Lifestyle and Stress. Each variable can be measured only indirectly through a set of …
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expatriate managers in high-risk countries, the study shows that several terrorism-related stressors create a significant stress … confront employees during assignments abroad have hardly been investigated. Applying a stress perspective, this article … analyzes the impact of terrorism-induced stress on attitudes and the performance of expatriates. Employing data from 143 …
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In this paper determinants of information systems (IS) outsourcing are deduced from transaction cost economic theory, resource-based theory and power theory. They are summarized in a theoretical framework which is tested using a sample of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany. The...
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Although a responsive supply chain is an integral part of order-winning manufacturing strategies, it has not been clear how firms build a responsive supply chain in global manufacturing environments. Built upon a synthesis of the existing literature and relevant theories, this paper presents a...
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