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On Nonredundant Cost-Constrained Team Formation

Huang, Jianbin; Zhou, Yu; Sun, Heli; Jia, Xiaolin - In: International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (IJDWM) 13 (2017) 3, pp. 25-46

Due to the wide application of the task assignment on the internet, team formation problem has become an important research issue. A recently proposed problem ClusterHire aims to find a team of experts to accomplish multiple projects which can harvest a maximum profit under a limited budget....

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Tacit Knowledge Management Within Hospitality Establishments: Revealing the Body of the Iceberg

Avdimiotis, Spyros - In: International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM) 12 (2016) 3, pp. 15-29

the cornerstone of competitive advantage; however, merely its possession does not guarantee an edge in fierce competition …

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Performance prediction of multivariable linear regression based on the optimal influencing factors for ranking aggregation in crowdsourcing task

Xing, Yuping; Zhan, Yongzhao - In: Data Technologies and Applications 58 (2023) 2, pp. 176-200

Purpose For ranking aggregation in crowdsourcing task, the key issue is how to select the optimal working group with a given number of workers to optimize the performance of their aggregation. Performance prediction for ranking aggregation can solve this issue effectively. However, the...

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Strength-based approaches for small businesses: analysis from employees and managers in Western Australian motor vehicle industry

In: Human Resource Management International 30 (2022) 2, pp. 26-28

Purpose The authors wanted to find out if small businesses adopted strengths-based approaches and whether they were beneficial Design/methodology/approach The interviewees came from small businesses in Western Australia with between five and 19 employees in the motor vehicle industry where there...

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The use of mobile phones to support women’s entrepreneurship in the Arab countries

Ameen, Nisreen A.; Willis, Rob - In: International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship 8 (2016) 4, pp. 424-445

Purpose This paper aims to investigate how mobile phones can be used to support women’s entrepreneurship in Arab countries. The objective is to explore new ways to close the gender gaps in terms of entrepreneurship in these countries. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used in this...

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Low Schooling for Girls, Slower Growth for All? Cross-Country Evidence on the Effect of Gender Inequality in Education on Economic Development

Klasen, Stephan - In: The World Bank Economic Review 16 (2002) 3, pp. 345-373

Using cross-country and panel regressions, this article investigates how gender inequality in education affects long-term economic growth. Such inequality is found to have an effect on economic growth that is robust to changes in specifications and controls for potential endogeneities. The...

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Globalization and the Gender Wage Gap

H. Oostendorp, Remco - In: The World Bank Economic Review 23 (2009) 1, pp. 141-161

There are several theoretical reasons why globalization will have a narrowing as well as a widening effect on the gender wage gap, but little is known about the actual impact, except for some country studies. This study contributes to the literature in three respects. First, it is a large...

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Does Gender Inequality Hinder Development and Economic Growth? Evidence and Policy Implications

Bandiera, Oriana; Natraj, Ashwini - In: World Bank Research Observer 28 (2013) 1, pp. 2-21

Does the existing evidence support policies that foster growth by reducing gender inequality? We argue that the evidence based on differences across countries is of limited use for policy design because it does not identify the causal link from inequality to growth. This, however does not imply...

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A conceptual foundation for expectations of corporate responsibility

Olkkonen, Laura - In: Corporate Communications: An International Journal 22 (2017) 1, pp. 19-35

Purpose Ability to identify and meet stakeholder expectations is seen as imperative for succeeding in corporate … responsibility (CR). However, the existing literature of CR communication treats expectations predominantly as positive constructions … empirical understanding of stakeholder expectations. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents findings from a targeted …

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In the shadow of offshoring: exploring providers’ expectations

Pinho de Almeida, Mariana; Filipa do Amaral Chambre de … - In: EuroMed Journal of Business 8 (2013) 1, pp. 64-78

providers’ perspective of offshoring. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap, aiming to assess the expectations of … providers when they started working with foreign firms and compare those expectations with their perceptions of reality. Design … broad categories of expectations and perceptions emerged: business‐, firm‐ and client‐related. “Creation of business” and …

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