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This research aims to study the strategic response by the firm’s willingness to increase the information technology invesment to face globalization. This research also examine the relationship of competitive strategy typology factors, information technology maturity and size of the firm...
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This paper aims at assessing the relationship between ownership structure, performance and investmentactivity. In particular it studies how behavioural differences between farms related to ownership structureinfluence farms' investment activity and thus their further development potential...
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This dissertation explores the ways in which institutional organizational theory can enhance our understanding of how organizational structures that shape social inequality emerge, diffuse, and persist over time. More specifically, in three distinct papers, I examine the institutionalization of...
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In this paper we use rich panel data for a representative sample of Estonian enterprises to analyse diverse issues related to the determinants of ownership structures and ownership changes after privatisation. A key focus is to determine whether ownership changes are related to economic...
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Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and...
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This paper examines the issues relating to the most appropriate form of corporation ownership including organizational and cultural systems that will maximize the firm's value to society whilst maintaining a more sustainable market value. The paper argues that the maximization of firm value to...
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This dissertation presents a behavioral model of employee ownership and an experimental examination of the model. Chapter 1 reviews literature on employee ownership, gift-exchange, social preferences in experimental economics, and in-group bias. The model of employee ownership, presented in...
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the form of absenteeism and presenteeism. A new survey that combines questions from existing HRQOL and workforce … absenteeism than faculty, but faculty had higher levels of presenteeism. Using multivariate regression models on several measures … of productivity, including both absenteeism and presenteeism, we concluded that mental health measures were stronger …
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which pales by comparison with the 375 million working days lost onaverage as a result of absenteeism over the 1980's … [Economic Trends].Furthermore, a study by management consultants, Arthur Anderson, recentlyestimated the cost of absenteeism to … paid in the economicliterature to either the causes and/or the effects of absenteeism. Nevertheless,the discipline has …
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worker productivity loss (e.g., absenteeism <—> presenteeism) into a single comprehensive outcome; and (3) to examine the …, and future recommendation of outcomes. Several measurement and analytic approaches to combine absenteeism and presenteeism …
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