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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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the cornerstone of competitive advantage; however, merely its possession does not guarantee an edge in fierce competition …
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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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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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This article describes how there exists ample experimental evidence demonstrating a positive wage-effort relationship in which the results from the employee's effort lead to deterministic firm payoffs. The authors thus investigate a reframed version of the gift-exchange game in which the firms'...
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discussed in order to understand the behavioral changes expectations along the ITG mechanisms adoption. The preliminary results …
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expectations towards works councils turn out to be a blind spot of industrial relations research. In order to fill this gap we … conducted a qualitative exploratory study. Our results show that four types of expectations can be differentiated: (1 … issues. Moreover, the interviewees remarked some expectations with regard to personal characteristics of works councils. A …
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Abstract While the large disparities in educational attainment by socioeconomic status in the United States point towards the importance of credit constraints, there is no consensus in the economic literature regarding their pervasiveness. To evaluate how subjective information can enhance our...
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Abstract We examine stability under learning of sunspot equilibria in Real Business Cycle type models with indeterminacies. Our analysis emphasizes the importance of examining alternative representations of sunspot solutions. A general bivariate reduced form contains parameter regions in which...
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How did Enron, a firm worth $60 billion, collapse over the discovery of a billion or so in hidden debt and fraudulent accounting? It didn't. Or, at least, not directly. Market makers like Enron and Ebay are in the "trust" business, just as banks and insurance companies are. Once trust was lost,...
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