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We consider a firm that designs a new product and wishes to bring it to market, but does not have ownership or control over all of the resources required to make that happen. The firm must select and contract with one of several possible tier 1 suppliers for necessary inputs, who do the same...
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My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social scientific approach to identify the strategic behavior of individuals in...
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The economic performances of North and South Korea over the past decade have differed significantly. This is largely due to the government policies of the two countries, which affect business in conflicting ways. Despite the differences in economic growth, there are a number of similarities...
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presents management with universal and particular paradoxes mediated through diverse contextual micro communication practices … economic, political, and cultural societal concerns for the development of more responsive ethical and sustainable management … and governance. This thesis argues for an elevated notion of the role of communication management to enable business to …
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enabled with greater customer loyalty, and improved sales through better individual store business management and marketing …
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Open source software systems are critical infrastructure for many applications; however, little has been precisely measured about their quality. Forecasting the field defect-occurrence rate over the entire lifespan of a release before deployment for open source software systems may enable...
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agency dynamics within family businesses, as moderated by differing forms of governance and management practices … among family firms that employ differing governance and management practices. In particular, this study looks at how the … agency dynamics of family firms that employ the most concentrated forms of management and governance, manifested as owner …
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19, 1991. Compass management (and much of public opinion) blamed the Government, and the Government (and the incumbent … airlines) blamed Compass management, for the opportunities lost. But all parties probably now agree that there have been … Compass Airlines in terms of management's failure to single-mindedly pursue its optimal strategy. It concludes that despite …
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business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities … half of Australian universities did not explicitly identify sustainability as part of their business/management curricula …
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Familiness has become widely accepted as the appropriate construct representing the unique bundle of resources arising out of family involvement in business. However as yet we do not fully understand the types of familiness or the conditions that give rise to them and as such familiness remains...
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