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The value of managerial beliefs in turbulent environments: Managerial Orientation and E-Business Advantage
Coltman, T.; Devinney, T. M.; Midgley, D. F. - 2008
on the firm or industry but is reflective of the strength of the beliefs held by managers. This implies that the "black …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457344
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Human resource management with Islamic management principles: a dialectic for a reverse diffusion in management
Branine, Mohamed; Pollard, David - 2010
(national) and international managers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of a qualitative approach based on … little understanding and, hence, the implementation of Islamic management principles by both local and international managers … managers in order to manage locally and what is required from the local workforce to be managed effectively. The main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463225
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Empirical evidence for taxi customer-search model
Sirisoma, RMNT; Wong, SC; Lam, WHK; Wang, D; Yang, H; … - 2010
A mutinomial logit model of urban taxi services has been developed for the study of the operational characteristics of the taxi industry, in which it is hypothesised that the customer-searching behaviour of vacant taxis follows a multinomial logit choice model. Although the model is commonly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471494
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Income and poverty in a developing economy
Chattopadhyay, Amit K.; Ackland, Graeme J.; Mallick, … - 2010
We present a stochastic agent-based model for the distribution of personal incomes in a developing economy. We start with the assumption that incomes are determined both by individual labour and by stochastic effects of trading and investment. The income from personal effort alone is distributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009474839
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The application of binary variables at a choice of the most advantageous entrepreneurial intentions
Vaněčková, Eva - 2012
The paper deals with the mathematical modelling of some requirements that must be fulfilled at a choice of entrepreneurial intentions. The author mathematically formulates some special constraints and various types of the objective function in linear optimization models of entrepreneurial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011315960
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The economics of road safety: an international perspective
McManus, W. - 2007
This report examines some recent explanations for the rising road fatality rates in developing countries. A key insight of these recent studies is that road fatalities per capita follow a Kuznets curve (an inverted-U shaped pattern with rising income per capita). The rising fatalities per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476950
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COPING WITH ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Bussell, Stephen L. - 2011
This paper introduces a unified model for organizational change that is designed to help change analysts think through the decision-making process. Most organizational leaders do not manage change effectively because they fail to acquire the minimum amount of information necessary to make a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009474988
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Prediction Markets versus Alternative Methods. Empirical Tests of Accuracy and Acceptability
Graefe, Andreas - 2009
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A fuzzy approach to risk based decision making
Hussain, Omar; Chang, Elizabeth; Hussain, Farookh; … - 2006
Decision making is a tough process. It involves dealing with a lot of uncertainty and projecting what the final outcome might be. Depending on the projection of the uncertain outcome, a decision has to be made. In a peer-to-peer financial interaction the trusting agent, in order to analyse the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434916
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Context and time dependent risk based decision making
Hussain, Omar; Chang, Elizabeth; Hussain, Farookh; … - 2006
As there is a lack of central management in an ecommerce interaction carried out based on peer-to-peer architecture, it is obvious for the trusting peer to analyze the Risk beforehand that could be involved in dealing with a trusted peer in these types of interactions. Another characteristic of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434921