Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2006.

Ph. D.

The article illustrates that there seems to be a fairly large distance between action research ideals of dialogue, democracy, participation, and involvement and the actual challenges we have met when practicing dialogic action research in hierarchical organizations where dialogue is always...

Purpose – Conventional measures of risk aversion based on first and second derivatives of utility are strictly local instruments, valid only for infinitesimally small changes in wealth. This paper to develop a global index suitable for assessing attitudes toward large-scale risks....

Lorsque, à la suite des autres sciences sociales, les économistes s'intéressent au mécanisme de la confiance, ils mettent en général au premier plan la recherche d'une justification ou d'un fondement au faire confiance, le point de départ implicite du processus auquel ils pensent étant...

The research presented in this paper shows that merely activating the idea of money affects the social behavior and social preferences of young children who do not understand the economic functions of money. From an economic point of view, money is universal, instrumental, and can be defined by...

The fall of the communist regime caused a massive flow of humanitarian aid to Romania, from all over the world. Pharmaciens sans frontières (PSF) Anjou, a departmental branch of PSF France, was one of them. After retrieving and sorting unused medication for three years, its members decided to...

The challenge is to manage the organization's culture so that you can tap the company's strenghts to achieve superior performance and identify it's weaknesses in time to overcome them before they cause serious damage." Successful adaptation to change is as crucial within an organization as it is...