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Modeling heterogeneity in production models: empirical evidence from individual farming in Poland
Hockmann, Heinrich; Pieniadz, Agata; Goraj, Lech - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2007
inefficiency. Moreover, inefficiency could partly be attributed to factors, which affect the management input and requirements on …
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L'enseignement du contrôle de gestion est-il déconnecté de la pratique des contrôleurs de gestion ?
David, Gilles - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
For the Academics there is a difference between the teaching of management control and the practice of controllers. Why … this distinction ? This paper shows that management control is a management performance process. The management control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708217
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The Role of Experience in Prioritizing Adherence to SOPs in Police Agencies
LaFrance, Casey; Day, Jonathan - In: Public Organization Review 13 (2013) 1, pp. 37-48
Research has perennially substantiated the belief that experience is a crucial determinant of an officer’s ability to effectively use discretion in making decisions. Officers cite experience as “the best teacher”, and police managers are likely to agree, usually with an anecdote or two...
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The place of Austrian economics in contemporary entrepreneurship research
Klein, Peter; Bylund, Per - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 27 (2014) 3, pp. 259-279
We review the place of Austrian economics in contemporary entrepreneurship and management research, focusing on the … CitationID="CR65">1921</CitationRef>) and more recent contributors. We conclude that the entrepreneurship and management …
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Management Quality, Ownership, Firm Performance and Market Pressure in Russia
Schweiger, Helena; Friebel, Guido - In: Open Economies Review 24 (2013) 4, pp. 763-788
We investigate whether management quality explains firm performance in Russia. We find that it explains relatively … rest of Russia. Firms that have always been in private ownership perform better than state-owned firms. While management … look at the determinants of firms’ adoption of good management practices. We find that market pressure, both in the product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010988469
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Governance, management and performance in public networks: How to be successful in shared-governance networks
Cristofoli, Daniela; Markovic, Josip; Meneguzzo, Marco - In: Journal of Management and Governance 18 (2014) 1, pp. 77-93
This paper compares four cases and explores the effects on network performance of network governance, coordination mechanisms, and the abilities of the network manager. The focus is on shared-governance networks, which are in general considered to have difficulties achieving high-level...
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Dissecting and connecting the growth and accounting distortion components of accruals
Li, Donglin - In: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 42 (2014) 1, pp. 1-28
This study refines the accrual decomposition approach in Richardson et al. (Account Rev 81:713–743, <CitationRef CitationID="CR31">2006</CitationRef>) and introduces a growth measure that is free from accounting distortions. My evidence indicates that the lower persistence of accruals extends to accruals that are unrelated to accounting...</citationref>
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Perceived Leadership Integrity in the Manufacturing Industry
McCann, Jack; Holt, Roger - In: Journal of Business Ethics 115 (2013) 3, pp. 635-644
Ethics is a significant issue among those in leadership positions, especially since the ethical corporate scandals of the 1970s followed by corporate scandals in the 1980s and the S&L scandals of the 1980s and 1990s and most recently the global financial crisis of 2006–2009. The purpose of...
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Corporate Governance and Entrepreneurial Firms
Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik E. - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship 10 (2014) 1-2, pp. 1-160
Although topics in corporate governance have been present in literature for almost a century, most of the theoretical and empirical work has focused on large and public companies, or the "<italic>Berle-Means-Corporation</italic>" in which fragmented ownership, caused by the separation of ownership and control,...
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Information Technology and the Need for Clear Communication for Effective User's Approach
Setti, Adriane; Cesário, Marisa; Fernandes, Silvia; … - In: Journal of Spatial and Organizational Dynamics 2 (2014) 3, pp. 242-254
corporate environment of Curitiba (Brazil). The main aim was to analyze communication problems and implications for management … use technology on behalf of users in order to improve business management practice. Professionals must be clear with users … relation to communication processes in the IT field for management and marketing. …
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