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Influence of corporate culture strength to subcultures and organizational performance
Pech, Martin; Krninská, Růžena - In: Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionales 10 (2007) 1, pp. 15-20
The article deals with corporate culture strength and its reference to cubcultures in an organization. The aim of research was to specify corporate culture strength in chosen grocery company and short description of its cubcultures. Within the discussion we summary relationship between corporate...
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The Policies That Affect the Extent of the Subcultures' Alignment in Organization
GERDHE, Suela - In: Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and … 2 (2012) 1, pp. 14-14
. Often, the subcultures are viewed by management as the representing tolerated deviations that do not disrupt the normative … significant value misalignment among the various subcultures within the organization. In such conditions, the lack of the … subcultures’ alignment in organization is considered critical and important to manage. While diagnosing culture alignment of the …
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Socio-Cultural Context of Drug Use with Reflections to Cannabis Use in Croatia
Dubreta, Niksa - In: Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - … 11 (2013) 1, pp. 86-97
Socio-cultural context of drug use is reflected as the constitutive part of interpretation of its effects and corresponding meanings, both at macro and micro-societal level of sociological analysis. In the first part of the article some more influential social-theoretical approaches to drug use...
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Status-Seeking in Violent Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
This discussion paper has led to a publication in the <I>Journal of Public Economic Theory</I>, 15(1), 77-93.<P> This paper develops a model in which individuals gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing violent acts. We show that a high penalty for moderately violent acts...</p></i>
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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
Dur, Robert - CESifo - 2006
double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … subcultures, zero-tolerance reduces crime across the board. …
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Status-Seeking in Violent Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
This paper develops a model in which individuals gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing violent acts. We show that a high penalty for moderately violent acts (zero-tolerance) may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450750
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'Do We Look Like Boy Racers?' the Role of the Folk Devil in Contemporary Moral Panics
Lumsden, Karen - In: Sociological Research Online 14 (2009) 1, pp. 2-2
subculture contributed to the stigmatization of young drivers and the labelling of the subculture\'s activities as deviant and …
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Gendered Performances in a Male-Dominated Subculture: 'Girl Racers', Car Modification and the Quest for Masculinity
Lumsden, Karen - In: Sociological Research Online 15 (2010) 3, pp. 6-6
join male-dominated subcultures while studies of car cultures have tended to describe girls as peripheral participants and …
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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
Dur, Robert; van der Weele, Joël - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … subcultures, zero-tolerance reduces crime across the board. …
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Understanding initiation behavior in Brazilian negotiations: an analysis of four regional subcultures
Volkema, Roger - In: Brazilian Business Review 9 (2012) 2, pp. 88-108
(Brazil), focusing on variations across four prominent regional subcultures of that country – Paulistas (state of Sao Paulo …
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