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Your Name, Your Root : The Impact of Supplier CEO’s Long-Term Orientation on the Duration of Supply Chain Relationships
Cavusoglu, Hasan; Hu, Nan; Liang, Peng - 2023
We examine how a supplier CEO’s long-term orientation (LTO), as characterized by Hofstede’s framework of cross …-cultural dimensions, affects the duration of customer-supplier relationships. By analyzing the national cultural backgrounds of 707 … distinct supplier CEOs from 20 countries based on their surnames in the period of 1992-2017, we find that supplier top managers …
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Business leadership concepts exemplified by the two exceptional leaders Daniel Vasella and Ricardo Semler
Betov, Alexander; Szillat, Patrick - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 3 (2016) 1, pp. 33-60
Purpose – Against the background of current leadership theory, this research paper analyses and compares the leadership approaches of two outstanding leaders: Daniel Vasella, chairman of the leading Swiss pharmaceutical organization Novartis and Ricardo Semler, owner of the Brazilian...
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Executive Compensation Management and Productivity Among Indigenous Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria
Ugoani, John - 2012
The study was designed to evaluate the effect of executive compensation management on productivity among indigenous SMEs in Nigeria and make recommendations. Compensation is a primary motivator for employees. People look for jobs that not only suit their talents and creativity, but compensate...
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Investment in Skills, Managerial Quality, and Economic Development
Esfahani, Mehrdad - 2020
I document that for a group of 38 countries ranging from low to high income: (1) the share of skilled managers is higher in richer countries, (2) the relative income of managers to non-managers is lower in richer countries, and (3) the relative income of skilled to unskilled individuals is lower...
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Mutual Fund Performance, Management Teams, and Boards
Adams, John C. - 2016
The recent surge in the use of team-managed funds in the mutual fund industry suggests that the benefits of team management might outweigh its costs. However, extant empirical evidence is not consistent with the view that team managed funds generate superior returns relative to individual...
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Measuring the Corporate Managers' Attitudes towards ISO's Social Responsibility Standard
Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2018
The International Standards Organisation's ISO 26000 on social responsibility supports organisations of all types and sizes in their responsibilities towards society and the environment. ISO 26000 recommends that organisations ought to follow its principles on accountability, transparency,...
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Army Leadership and the Communication Paradox
Ford, Christopher - 2015
This second place paper for the 2014 General Douglas MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition explores the U.S. Army’s inattention to communication as a leadership skill is particularly acute in light of the abundance of modern communication tools. The means available for Army leaders...
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Team Leaders of Self-Managed Work Groups : A Contradiction?
Delmestri, Giuseppe; Passoni, Elena - 2002
This study presents nine Italian cases of SMWT adoption. The powerful role of trade unions in Italy has made it difficult to use this practice for increasing pressure on the workers. In only three cases the introduction of SMWT took place simply as a means of broadening, rotating and partially...
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Human Resource Management in Russian Manufacturing Subsidiaries of Multinational Corporations
Gurkov, Igor - 2014
The paper reports the results of a survey of top executives of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs). We reveal the prevailing types of job contracts and the use of monetary and non-monetary benefits, and find the similarities with and differences from such...
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Executive Quirks in Operational Decisions
Lai, Richard K. - 2006
We ask if corporate executives have fixed effects (quirks) that explain perational decisions made in firms, independent of firm effects. We replicate the approach in Bertrand et al. (2003), solving the empirical challenge of distinguishing firm and executive effects by constructing a dataset of...
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