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Understanding cultural difference management through Charles Taylor's philosophy: Case studies from the food processing industry
Ouellet, Samuel Marleau; Facal, Joseph; Hébert, Louis - In: Administrative Sciences 5 (2015) 2, pp. 46-70
In this paper, we use the work of the philosopher, Charles Taylor, to investigate the role of culture on internationalization decisions. Using parameters related to key constructs such as positive liberty, social ontology, expressivism, civic republicanism and common spaces, we look at how...
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The motivation for engineering change in the industrial company
Maceika, Augustinas; Toločka, Eligijus - In: Business: Theory and Practice 22 (2021) 1, pp. 98-108
The authors of this article established the goal to investigate parameters related to the staff motivation for engineering change in the industrial company as case study and to predict the ways of improving the performance of the company. Employees of the company can be more motivated to...
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Motivation in organisations: Searching for a meaningful work-life balance
Guillén, Manuel - 2021
Motivation in Organisations: Searching for a Meaningful Work-Life Balance extends the current motivation models in business education to include motives of human behaviour that have been neglected for decades. It debunks some of the myths about human motivation (self-interest as the dominant...
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Organizing for Sustainable Development: Addressing the Grand Challenges
Angeli, Federica; Metz, Ashley; Raab, Jörg - 2022
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the increasingly complex, interdependent nature of societal and environmental issues for governments and business. Tackling such "grand challenges" requires the concerted action of a multitude of organizations and multiple stakeholders at...
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The future (and past) of work psychology and organizational behaviour: A personal view
Furnham, Adrian - In: Management Revue 15 (2004) 4, pp. 420-436
This paper offers a personal and perhaps side-ways view on the past and future of two closely related semi-disciplines: work psychology and organisational behaviour. The paper first addresses the terminological confusion in the area and discusses 10 terms often used inter-changably. It then...
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New directions in organizational behaviour?
Martin, Albert - In: Management Revue 15 (2004) 4, pp. 410-419
Organizational behaviour research possesses some endemic problems which constrict its progress. This introduction to Management Revue's special issue on organizational behaviour debates six deficiencies in the current research: an unclear conception of how to understand the 'organizational' in...
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Liberalisation of network industries: Is the electricity sector an exception to the rule?
Coppens, François; Vivet, David - 2004
For quite a long time, network industries used to be regarded as (natural) monopolies. This was due to these industries having some special characteristics. Network externalities and economies of scale in particular justified the (natural) monopoly thesis. Recently, however, a trend towards...
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Analysis of Overhead Costs Management in Companies
Irsa, Wolfram; Székely, Csaba - In: ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion 7 (2021) 1, pp. 23-33
The development of overhead costs management is becoming more and more important as the percentage of overhead costs is rising. The last 15 years have demonstrated the awakening of advanced methods and tools aimed at understanding the utilization of overheads better. The paper investigates the...
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The dos and don'ts of leadership in sequential public goods experiments
Rivas, Maria Fernanda; Sutter, Matthias - 2008
We study the effects of leadership in the provision of public goods by examining (i) the relative importance of reward … and punishment as leadership devices, (ii) whether endogenous leadership is more efficient than exogenously enforced … leadership, and (iii) whether leaders contributing last, instead of first, also increase contributions. The experimental results …
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The determinants of managerial decisions under risk
Kocher, Martin G.; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sutter, Matthias - 2008
In hierarchical organizations the role of a team leader often requires making decisions which do not necessarily coincide with the majority opinion of the team. However, these decisions are final and binding for all team members. We study experimentally why, and under which conditions, leaders...
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