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All countries in South Eastern Europe (SEE), in particular countries emerged from ex-Yugoslavia, are going through the transition process for many years. Switching from one economy to another, from closed and centralized to open and free market economy, has forced many companies to change their...
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The key objective of this chapter is to outline the essential complexities of social, cultural and institutional influences on TM as a philosophy and practice in CEE countries. Particular attention will be paid to (a) human factors that give individual countries and the region a distinctive...
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This study examines the effect of peer-level analyst transitions (i.e., switching between brokerage houses) on associated regular incumbent analysts’ forecasting performance. We employ a difference-in-differences research design with analyst fixed effects and compare incumbent analysts of...
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This is a case which explores the cultural differences between Polish and American workers. William Zukowski, an American expatriate of Polish ancestry was given the opportunity by his company, Stewer Technologies, to head a small joint venture in Poland. Zukowski experiences a number of...
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We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find that in China, enterprise growth and efficiency is associated with rapid increases in factor inputs, but not correlated with ownership or institutional factors. However, in...
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Following formal privatisation of farm land and assets in CentralEurope, the change in agriculturalproduction structures has been both more limited and different thanwas initially expected. In this paper, thetheoretical reasons underlying those expectations are reviewed. Analternative...
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Social capital is defined as the shared knowledge, trust, and culture, embodied in the structural forms of networks and other stable inter-agent relationships. Social capital has been shown to be more difficult to build than economic capital, and to have greater beneficial effects for community...
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The World Bank has published a series of reports on corporate governance as part of its project on the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC). The corporate governance principles in its ROSC Reports are benchmarked against the OECD's Principles of Corporate Governance (OECD...
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The World Bank has published a series of reports on corporate governance as part of its project on the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC). The corporate governance principles in its ROSC Reports are benchmarked against the OECD's Principles of Corporate Governance (OECD...
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The World Bank has published a series of reports on corporate governance as part of its project on the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC). The corporate governance principles in its ROSC Reports are benchmarked against the OECD's Principles of Corporate Governance (OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139067