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The competency niche: An exploratory study
Dobrowolski, Zbysław; Drozdowski, Grzegorz; … - In: Risks 9 (2021) 11, pp. 1-11
In the era of a turbulent and less-predictable business environment, as confirmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ability to efficiently use human resources has become particularly important. There is a need to reduce employees' competency niche, and competency mismatches have become noticeable in...
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Our extractive age: Expressions of violence and resistance
Shapiro, Judith (contributor);  … - 2021
"Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and...
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Public Innovation and Digital Transformation
Väyrynen, Hannele (contributor); Helander, Nina (contributor) - 2023
Public innovation and digitalization are reshaping organizations and society in various ways and within multiple fields, as innovations are essential in transforming our world and addressing global sustainability and development challenges. This book addresses the fascinating relationship of...
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The Front-end of Large Public Projects: Paradoxes and Ways Ahead
Williams, Terry M. (contributor); Samset, Knut (contributor) - 2022
Large public projects represent major complex investment and whilst there has been much written about how to develop, manage and deliver such projects, practice still does not match up with expectations. In this book, researchers from the Norwegian Concept Research Programme explore the...
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Management and Visualisation: Seeing Beyond the Strategic
Fletcher, Gordon - 2023
As organisations of all sizes become increasingly digitalised, a core management challenge remains unresolved. The ability to successfully and sustainably connect the stated vision of an organisation with its strategic plans and, in turn, with the reported reality of day-to-day operations, is...
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Leading a Business School
Davies, Julie; Thomas, Howard; Cornuel, Eric; Cremer, … - 2023
Business schools are critical players in higher education, educating current and future leaders to make a difference in … management education, organizations and society more broadly. Written by renowned experts on the role of the dean, Julie Davies … education leaders. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available …
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A U.S. Analysis of the Macro- and Micro-Economics of Family Formation: Marrying in the Great Recession and Prior Post-Industrial Recessions
Espinoza, C. Soledad - 2014
, education, and earnings life histories merged from the SIPP survey and federal administrative sources. Using ordinary logit …
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Motivation, Resources and the Organization of the School System
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
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Is poverty the mother of crime? Empirical evidence of the impact of socioeconomic factors on crime in India
Bharadwaj, Ashish - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 1 (2014)
convincing result comes from the figures of elasticity of education with crime where a 10% increase in per capita expenditure on … education in India leads to a decline between 9.2-11.2% of overall property crime rates. …
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Inequalities in educational outcomes: How important is the family?
Bredtmann, Julia; Smith, Nina - 2016
In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background...
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