A series of three laboratory experiments examined effects of affirmative action (AA) employment policies, decision set (in terms of accepting or rejecting applicants), and selection ratio (ratio of applicants to available positions) on amount, duration, content, and sequence of information...

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-04, Section: B, page: 2164.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-06, Section: B, page: 3103.

Through the analysis of qualitative data, this research applies institutional theory and the resource-based perspective to examine why public accounting firms adopt women-friendly human resource management policies. The study reveals that 5 types of institutional pressures explain why...

The objective of this study was to examine the association between the scope and intensity of Quality improvement (QI) implementation in hospitals and organizational performance. A sample of 1,784 community hospitals was used to assess relationships between QI implementation approach and two...

This paper theoretically and empirically connects the literature on high-reliability organizations (HROs) to a broader set of organizations, which we call reliability-seeking organizations. Unlike HROs, which operate high-hazard technologies, reliability-seeking organizations operate in...

This paper proposes a conceptual model of work group empowerment and describes a study that was designed to evaluate the model. The conceptual model specifies directional relations among the antecedents, dimensions, and outcomes of empowered work groups. The model hypothesized that the effects...

Doctor of Philosophy

One of the two reviewers studied in high school to be a physicist. In the end, he became something else, but he never lost his awe of physics. The other reviewer never intended to become a physicist, but he sometimes asks himself why he didn’t become one. Today, they are both sociologists who...

Divat és reklám egyaránt a XXI. századi élő és digitális kommunikáció kulcsfogalmai. A kommunikáció és az információcsere különböző bonyolultsági szinteken zajlik, reflexes, szándékos, nyelv nélküli és a nyelvi szinten is. Előadásunk során a divat és a reklám...