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How Markets Work: The Lawyer’s Version
Gulati, Mitu; Weidemaier, W. Mark C. - 2011
In this article, we combine two sources of data to shed light on the nature of transactional legal work. The first consists of stories about contracts that circulate widely among elite transactional lawyers. Surprisingly, the stories portray lawyers as ineffective market actors who are...
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Turning knowledge into value in professional service firms
Forstenlechner, Ingo; Lettice, Fiona; Bourne, Mike; … - 2007
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss thefindings of research into the value perception of knowledge management amonglawyers and staff from among the top ten global law firms. Design/methodology/approach – Interviews were conducted with lawyers as well as...
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U.S. Minority and Women Owned Small Businesses
2007
.S. minority and women owned small businesses. Research in this area to date has addressed minorities and women in international … a domestic focus (Dunning, 1993; Guisinger, 1985). The importance of this research is to help minority and women owned …, technology has no bearing on the success of minority and women owned small businesses, and small businesses should globalize …
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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Assessing Quality Improvement Infrastructure in the Formation of Accountable Care Organizations: A Regional Policy Analysis for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Carr-Whealy, Nathan - 2011
Accountable Care Organizations are developing in the United States as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A study is needed to evaluate an emerging issue of ACOs, quality improvement infrastructure, and the pharmaceutical industry. The convergence of these topics has not...
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Unethical secrets, lies and legal retaliation in the context of corporate restructuring in the United States
Clark, Gordon - 1990
Corporate restructuring is normally analyzed with reference to economic imperatives and the inherited geographical structure of production. The economic landscape is assumed to be the consequence of private decisions made in response to these structural factors. If understanding and empirically...
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Price shocks and the components of urban inflation
Clark, Gordon L. - 1984
In a previous study of US city inflation, I emphasized the temporal regularities of urban price inflation. But, despite these identified regularities, it is apparent that the process of inflation is rarely so regular and so systematic. Unanticipated shocks in three components, energy food, and...
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Fluctuations and rigidities in local labor markets, part 1: theory and evidence
Clark, Gordon L. - 1983
Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven US cities over the period 1972 - 1980. Conventional neoclassical discrete-exchange models of the labor market are shown to be inadequate because of marked rigidities in the...
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