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Einflussfaktoren des Studienerfolges im betriebswirtschaftlichen Studium: Eine empirische Untersuchung
Giese, Stefanie; Otte, Franziska; Stoetzer, … - Fachbereich Betriebswirtschaft, Fachhochschule Jena - 2013
Was beeinflusst den Studienerfolg eines betriebswirtschaftlichen Studiums in Form der erreichten Abschlussnote? Aus der Perspektive der Studierenden, der staatlichen Hochschulpolitik und der Hochschulen sind dabei unterschiedliche Einflussfaktoren von Bedeutung: Die Note der...
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Management Economics in a Large Retail Company
Siebert, W. Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 8, pp. 1398-1414
manager pay. We find that, of the six management practice areas surveyed, the most important is "commercial awareness," where …
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Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization
Siebert, W. Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The … company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be "commercial awareness … managers do not receive higher pay all else equal, which implies that middle management ability is not fully tradable. …
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Resource Curse or Destructive Creation: A Tale of Crony Capitalism in Transition
Vuong, Quan Hoang; Napier, Nancy K. - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2012
This paper explores the “resource curse” problem as a counter-example of creative performance and innovation by examining reliance on capital and physical resources, showing the gap between expectations and ex-post actual performance became clearer under conditions of economic turmoil. The...
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Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press
Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income between rich and poor...
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The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance
Berardi, Franco "Bifo" - The MIT Press
The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for today’s precarious times, and a rallying cry in the face of the catastrophic and irreversible crisis that neoliberalism and the financial sphere have established over the globe. In his newest book, Franco “Bifo” Berardi argues that the notion of...
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Something for Nothing: A Novel
Klein, Michael W. - The MIT Press
David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he...
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Inside and Outside Liquidity
Holmström, Bengt - The MIT Press
, investment decisions, and liquidity management. The government has an active role to play in improving risk-sharing between …
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The Evolving Role of China in the Global Economy
Cheung, Yin-Wong (contributor) - The MIT Press
China is now the world’s second largest economy and may soon overtake the United States as the world’s largest. Despite its adoption of some free-market principles, China considers itself a “socialist-market economy,” suggesting that the government still plays a major role in the...
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Reflections of an Economic Policy Maker
Burns, Arthur F. - American Enterprise Institute
A selection of public addresses and congressional statements from Arthur Burn's during his time as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve System.
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