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Every year, new development projects are recommended to be undertaken by various divisional management to corporate management in different multi‐divisional companies. The corporate managements in such companies face a challenging task of understanding and approving these projects. Moreover,...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore benefits and issues of integrating the theory of constraints (TOC …), resource-based view (RBV) and resource-dependence theory (RDT) with conventional project-based management frameworks. Design …/implications – While TOC, RBV and RDT are well established in the context of organization theory, there is limited application in project …
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This paper reports the findings of an empirical study of project management (PM) practice and of attitudes and opinions of people involved in projects in UK organisations, to determine the extent to which PM has evolved into being broader in its concepts, methods and application than...
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The New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme was gradually introduced from 2003 in China. This paper is based on a representative survey of 24 randomly selected township hospitals in Weifang prefecture over the period 2000-2008. Using a generalized form of differences-in-differences model, it aims...
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contributions from a large group of people. In this paper, the authors attempt to investigate how different incentives affect the … incentives, different factors contribute to the quality of work in crowdsourcing tasks. In general the research highlights that …
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decision making creates problems of aligning incentives of vertically related agents, and coordinating the actions of different …
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and experimentation. The results predict the underprovision of optimal incentives and deviation from a standard sufficient … statistics result from the agency literature. It also allows us to address the question of creating the optimal incentives in a …
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This paper studies the interactions between health insurance and the incentives for innovation. Although we focus on … inadequate incentives to innovate. Standard results in the health literature suggest that health insurance leads to the … overutilization of health care. Our study of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry emphasizes the interaction of these incentives …
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ein positiver Anreiz. Unsere Untersuchung über die Determinanten des Innovationserfolges liefert empirische Ergebnisse zu …Summary This article compares the innovative activity of managerial and owner-led firms. The incentives to innovate for … growth in case of success is a positive incentive. In light of this conflicting incentives, we investigate empirically …
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valid or not. Additionally, further kinds of incentives are taken into account. It is shown that the current structure of … the financial incentives influences the decision of the recipients much less than it is assumed. In contrast to this, the …. Therefore, a reform of the German system of social assistance should not only focus on financial incentives.  …
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