tainted in labor market outcomes from being mixed in with less able fraternity members. I show that my theory can reconcile … abilities. Universities choose grading standards to maximize the total wages of graduates, taking into account how the grading … lower grading standards than is socially optimal, exploiting the fact that firms cannot distinguish between “good” and “bad …

brand products as being of higher quality outside the USDA grading program. Between 1994 and 2002, the share of all … consumer welfare by approximately 2% of beef expenditure. The second essay, 'Grading and Quality Certification in Beef … of the USDA beef quality grading and certification programs is provided and related to the model. The third essay, 'When …

been on internal business operations, assuming a defined and stable context in which the processes are designed to operate …. Yet, a lack of context-awareness for external change leads to processes and supporting information systems that are unable … propose a conceptual framework that facilitates the identification of context change. Based on a secondary data analysis of …

been on internal business operations, assuming a defined and stable context in which the processes are designed to operate …. Yet, a lack of context-awareness for external change leads to processes and supporting information systems that are unable … propose a conceptual framework that facilitates the identification of context change. Based on a secondary data analysis of …

In this thesis I investigate how boards of directors strategize, how they manage strategy and how context affects this … adequately addressed actual board behaviour in strategy and the impact of context on this behaviour. With this argument in mind … situated (context dependent), socially accomplished flow of activities that characterizes how boards manage strategy …

have arisen, showing the driving forces of European innovation in mobile learning. We propose context as a central …

to measure performance risk according to the specific context and assessment criteria with the aid of a semantic …

which the particularities of context impact on the extent to which strategies aimed at enhancing productivity growth and HRM … is understood that characteristics of the Fijian context create a situation where commitment and divided loyalties are …

importance of context in research design and data analysis. The emergence of computing phenomena that pervade different contexts … within and even beyond the organizational boundary suggests the need to disaggregate the notion of context to allow for finer … levels of contextual analysis. Indeed we demonstrate that a failure to consider interdependent levels of context in …