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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...

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The relationships among organizational service orientation, customer service training, and employee engagement.

Johnson, Karen Roberto - 2011

University of Minnesota Ph.D dissertation. December 2011. Major: Work and Human Resource Education. Advisor: Kenneth R. Bartlett. 1 computer file (PDF); xiii, 166, appendices A-F.

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Rethinking Economy for Regional Development: Ontology, Performativity, and Enabling Frameworks for Participatory Vision and Action

Miller, Ethan L - 2011

The stories we tell about "the economy" in discourses of regional economic development play an active role in shaping our economic realities. The construction of more equitable, democratic and ecologically-sound economies must involve an interrogation of our assumptions about what “the...

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THE KIOSK CULTURE: RECONCILING THE PERFORMANCE SUPPORT PARADOX IN THE POSTMODERN AGE OF MACHINES

Cavanagh, Thomas - 2007

Do you remember the first time you used an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM)? Or a pay-at-the-pump gas station? Or an airline e-ticket kiosk? How did you know what to do? Although you never received any formal instruction in how to interact with the self-service technology, you were likely able to...

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Audit Committee Member Support for Proposed Audit Adjustments: A Source Credibility Perspective

DeZoort, F. Todd; Hermanson, Dana R.; Houston, Richard W. - 2003

This study reports the results of an experiment that investigates the effects of financial-report timing, EPS proximity to analyst forecast, and external auditor argument consistency on audit committee members' support for a proposed audit adjustment. We use source credibility theory to predict...

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Audit Committee Member Support for Proposed Audit Adjustments: Pre-SOX versus Post-SOX Judgments

DeZoort, F. Todd; Hermanson, Dana R.; Houston, Richard W. - 2008

This study examines differences in audit committee member judgments before the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("pre-SOX") versus after the act was passed ("post- SOX") as well as audit committee member perceptions of the effects of SOX. Based on experimental materials administered to 372 public company...

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Investigating the Relationship between IT and Organizations: A Research Trilogy

Raymond, Benoit - 2010

The overall objective of this dissertation is to contribute to knowledge and theory about the influence of information technology (IT) on organizations and their members. This dissertation is composed of three related studies, each examining different aspects of the relationship between IT and...

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Materiality in the context of audit: The real expectations gap

Houghton, K; Jubb, C; Kend, M - 2011

Purpose: This paper seeks to focus on the issue of materiality judgements and the need for public disclosure of … materiality levels. Insights about the concept of materiality are drawn from the words of users of audited financial reports … stakeholders in the market for audit services about the issue of "materiality" as this concept is applied in auditing. The …

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The importance of Complex Product Systems to the space industry in Australia : a small satellite case study

Moody, James Bradfield - 2004

The great paradox of the space industry in Australia is why, given a strong history of space involvement and a capacity … for excellence in space and other complex projects, Australia is unique among developed countries in that it does not have … a recognisable space agency and it has little space policy.To try and understand this paradox, this thesis follows the …

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THE INFORMATION ERA AND THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES. A MORAL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

COCALIA (CRĂCIUN), Mirela Alina - 2016

The present article proposes a personalized approach of a new dimension for the contemporary society, namely the comprehension of the human behavior in manifestation, in the present conditions of the unprecedented development of technology, the unavoidable advent of both interdependency and of...

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