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Who Is an Entrepreneur?
Ruef, Martin - Princeton University Press
Recent surveys show that more than half of American entrepreneurs share ownership in their business startups rather than going it alone. Yet the media and many scholars continue to perpetuate the myth of the lone visionary who single-handedly revolutionizes the marketplace. In The...
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The Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action
Ruef, Martin - Princeton University Press
Recent surveys show that more than half of American entrepreneurs share ownership in their business startups rather than going it alone. Yet the media and many scholars continue to perpetuate the myth of the lone visionary who single-handedly revolutionizes the marketplace. In The...
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Organizational Citizenship Behaviour - Source of Organizational Performance
DEACONU, Alecxandrina; RASCA, Lavinia - In: REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF … 12 (2011) 6, pp. 282-290
Organizational performance has, over time, become a fundamental objective of managerial strategies. Its achievement is conditioned by thorough scientific research concerning the context in which it is obtained as well as the analysis of the concept of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB)...
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The Superior-Subordinate Relationship and Work Climate in the Slovenian Tourism Industry
Tkalcic, Marjan - In: Academica Turistica - Tourism and Innovation Journal 5 (2012) 1, pp. 31-45
climate comes from the management team, whose professional correctness in resolving conflicts has a bearing on the motivation … of employees to engage in responsible and efficient work. Good relations and a proactive attitude among the team members …
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Health worker performance in rural health organizations in low- and middle-income countries: Do organizational factors predict non-task performance?
Jayasuriya, Rohan; Jayasinghe, Upali W.; Wang, Qian - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 1-4
Health worker (HW) performance is a critical issue facing many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The aim of this study was to test the effects of factors in the work environment, such as organizational culture and climate, on HW non-task performance in rural health work settings in a...
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Continuities and Extensions of Ethical Climate Theory: A Meta-Analytic Review
Martin, Kelly; Cullen, John - In: Journal of Business Ethics 69 (2006) 2, pp. 175-194
Using traditional meta-analytic techniques, we compile relevant research to enhance conceptual appreciation of ethical climate theory (ECT) as it has been studied in the descriptive and applied ethics literature. We explore the various treatments of ethical climate to understand how the...
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On the Mediational Role of Feelings of Self-Determination in the Workplace: Further Evidence and Generalization
Blais, Marc R.; Brière, Nathalie M. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002
The goals of this study were to extend and to verify the generalizability of Deci et al.'s (1989) results, and to test the validity of a preliminary quality of worklife model in which feelings of self-determination play a key mediational role. This model states that informational and controlling...
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Effect of Psychological Work Climate and Emotion Intelligence on Teamwork
B, Owolabi A. - In: Journal of Asian Scientific Research 2 (2012) 3, pp. 150-158
This study examined the effect of psychological work climate and emotional intelligence on teamwork among Nigerian workers. One hundred and sixty participants were drawn from the University Teaching Hospital in Ado-Ekiti. The participants were made up of 65 males and 95 females. The Index of...
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Individual and situational antecedents of workplace victimization
Mathisen, Gro Ellen; Øgaard, Torvald; Einarsen, Ståle - In: International Journal of Manpower 33 (2012) April, pp. 539-555
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to simultaneously examine individual- and team-level predictors of workplace … individual level of analysis, which may be insufficient when assessing organizational- and team-level predictors of workplace … included team-level climate factors and individual-level personality traits, and both individual- and team-level victimization …
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Organisational Harmony as a Value in Family Businesses and Its Influence on Performance
Jiménez, M. Ruiz; Martos, Manuel Vallejo; Jiménez, … - In: Journal of Business Ethics 126 (2015) 2, pp. 259-272
The aims of this research were twofold: first, to compare the levels of organisational harmony between family and non-family firms and, second, to study the influence of organisational harmony on family firms’ performance (profitability, longevity and group cohesion). Starting from a...
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