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Expatriate managers: A historical review
Harvey, Michael; Moeller, Miriam - 2009
As expatriate managers continue to be a viable means for exercising control over foreign operations, they can have a … expatriate managers. Each stage is discussed in terms of the successes as well as problems/failures associated with the … necessity to create new and/or enhance current practices relating to the development of expatriate managers' maximum global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448396
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Expatriate managers: A historical review
Harvey, Michael; Moeller, Miriam - 2009
As expatriate managers continue to be a viable means for exercising control over foreign operations, they can have a … expatriate managers. Each stage is discussed in terms of the successes as well as problems/failures associated with the … necessity to create new and/or enhance current practices relating to the development of expatriate managers' maximum global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441746
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An investigation of the relationship between cultural competence and expatriate job performance
Kirkman, Bradley L. (contributor) - 2008
others from a different cultural background or in a cross-cultural setting, predicts expatriate adjustment and job … explain the link between cultural competence and expatriate job performance by proposing a mediating variable of cross …-cultural adjustment. Lastly, in a more integrated way, this study examines how the relationship between expatriate adjustment and job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465059
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Post-Arrival Performance Interventions That Assist Expatriates’ Adjustment and Performance
Wood, Evan D. - 2010
This research examined the relationship between post-arrival performance interventions and the adjustment and performance of North American expatriates working and living in Hong Kong. The focus was on an integrated view of multiple post-arrival performance interventions in order to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471924
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Post-Arrival Performance Interventions That Assist Expatriates’ Adjustment and Performance
Wood, Evan D. - 2010
This research examined the relationship between post-arrival performance interventions and the adjustment and performance of North American expatriates working and living in Hong Kong. The focus was on an integrated view of multiple post-arrival performance interventions in order to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471926
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A Revised Model of International Experience: The Relationship between International Experience, Adjustment, and Performance
Gulick, Lisa M. V. - 2010
understanding of international work assignments andhow they can be strategically shaped to benefit both the individual expatriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458910
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Revenue Management Performance Drivers: An Empirical Analysis in the Hotel Industry
Crystal, Carolyn Roberts - 2007
Revenue Management (RM) is an important tool for matching supply and demand by segmenting customers into different segments based on their willingness-to-pay and allocating scarce capacity to the different segments in a way that maximizes firm revenues. The benefits of RM are well accepted in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475781
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A Dyad Model of Calling Behaviour with Tie Strength Dynamics
Shi, Mengze; Yang, Botao; Chiang, Jeongwen - University of Toronto; University of Southern California; … - 2009
This paper investigates the dynamic relation between callers' socialties and their wireless phone service consumption. We construct a largepair-level panel dataset with information on the number of each pair'scommon contacts, calling activities, prices, and each caller'scharacteristics over a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435159
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Pure Entertainment or Social Harmony? Understanding Private Returns to Social Spending on Household Ceremonies in China
Chen, Xi - 2011
Recent social spending inflation in China has led to its growth rate far exceeding that of income and other consumption. In this paper, we estimate private returns to social spending, such as higher social status and larger social network that serve as certain functions. In almost all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443729
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The Impact of Kinship on the Economic Dynamics of Transnational Networks: reflections on some South Asian developments
Ballard, Roger - 2001
Prepared for a Conference on Transnational Networks in Princeton in 2001, this paper explored the comparative dynamics of the trans-local networks which South Asian migrants from Mirpur (Pakistan), Jullundur (India) and Sylhet (Bangladesh) have constructed around themselves.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468661