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Xtending Likages Between Organizational Analysis and Social Structure: A Case Study of the Celebrity-Construction of a Chinese Marketplace
Jacobs, Mark - 2009
focuses on various firm-external social constructions: legitimacy, reputation, and status, and how they impact the emergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477384
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Human Resource Management Strategies in the Chinese Multinational Corporations: Ideology, Institutions, and Culture
George, Babu; Li, Caifeng; Hou, Yuting - 2020
With the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) having inextricably been interconnected with the international economy and … China and thus does not do justice to the way the Chinese Multinational Corporations (MNCs) have evolved. Unlike most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271277
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Performance measurement system effectiveness in public sector IT outsourcing contracts
Perrin, Brian; Pervan, Graham - 2009
A key issue in the successful management of an Information Technology (IT) outsourcing contract is the measurement of the vendor's performance to ensure that all agreed outcomes are achieved. An effective performance measurement system (PMS) provides both control and accountability of the vendor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434800
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Driver perceptions of police speed enforcement : differences between camera-based and non-camera based methods : results from a qualitative study
Soole, David W.; Lennon, Alexia J.; Watson, Barry C. - 2008
Prior research has highlighted the relationship between speeding and increased frequency and severity of traffic crashes. There is evidence to suggest that police speed enforcement, in particular speed camera operations, can be an effective tool for reducing traffic crashes. This qualitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437779
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Idealized Design of A Leadership from the Middle Process
Stankard, Martin F. - 2011
This slide presentation describes the origin, approach and deliverables of course Org. Dynm.633, on “Leadership from the Middle” (LftM). Course participants were middle managers taking responsibility without authority for producing results in uncertain organizational environments, under high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439227
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A full cost environmental accounting experiment
Herbohn, Kathleen - 2005
A lack of appropriate measurement techniques has constrained full cost environmental accounting (FCEA) experimentation. Yet, there has been little research on the applicability of valuation techniques recently developed by environmental economists within FLEA frameworks. This paper examines a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448247
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How to change other people's institutions : discursive entrepreneurship and the boundary object of competition/competitiveness in the German banking sector
Langenohl, Andreas - 2008
criteria of organizational legitimacy, concentrating on the sense-making and legitimization processes involved in institutional … commercial banks - who attempted to homogenize the criteria of organizational legitimacy in the German banking sector by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471839
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Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999
Earle, John S.; Spicer, Andrew; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004
What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and nonpayment of wages, in Russia during the 1990s. Existing research on wage arrears most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477502
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What drives the fledgling practice of social and environmental reporting by Chinese companies listed in Hong Kong?
Taylor, D; Shan, Y - 2007
of legitimacy and stakeholder theories (namely, size of company, media attention, extent of charitable donations and … equity systematic risk) are empirically modelled. The results find that elements of legitimacy theory are less effective than … the media and management cultural-orientation related to strategic posturing in China differ from what is seen in the West. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481486
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An institutional perspective on retail internationalization success : Home Depot in Chile
Bianchi, Constanza; Arnold, Stephen J. - 2004
. Findings showed that Home Depot lacked legitimacy in Chile because they failed to offer the range of merchandise and store …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483508