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Coporate culture in a democratice South Africa
Visser, Ronelda - 2006
interviews with management-level employees who speak Afrikaans, English and Xhosa as home languages in an attempt to ascertain … organisational structures such as conflict management, interaction during meetings, decision-making and acceptance of authority. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447155
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A critical evaluation of first line managers' perceptions of organisational change at Sanlam
Noemdo, Leon Abraham - 2009
A quantitative research study was conducted in order to obtain insight and knowledge of the perceptions of management … confirm that dealing with change is a challenging experience for managers. A participatory management approach will result in …. Furthermore, the results confirm that soft skill training and development such as conflict and diversity management should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447176
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Performance Improvement in an Accounting Firm: Comparing Operational and Financial Data Before and After Process Redesign
Chhabra, Meeta Kaur - 2000
The case study described in this thesis involves a process improvement project in the Tax Department of a Certified Public Accounting firm. A process map was created by interviewing employees involved in the process. A process analysis identified problems and possible solutions. The Partners in...
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Manufacturing technology policy and deployment of processing innovations
Ettlie, John E. - 1988
This is a report of a study on the evolution of manufacturing technology policy during the deployment of domestic advanced manufacturing systems in thirty-four plants and two panels of data collection separated by one year. Changing firm environment was significantly correlated with pioneering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477397
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Trade liberalisation, economic crises and growth
Falvey, Rodney; Foster, Neil; Greenaway, David - 2010
Many economic reforms are undertaken at a time of economic crisis. But is this a good time for a country to undertake trade reform? In this paper we investigate whether an economic crisis at the time of trade liberalisation affects a country’s subsequent growth performance. We employ threshold...
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Gross capital flows : dynamics and crises
Broner, Fernando; Didier, Tatiana; Erce Domínguez, Aitor; … - 2010
Este trabajo analiza el comportamiento conjunto de los flujos de capital internacionales, en la frecuencia del ciclo de negocios y durante crisis financieras, por parte de residentes y no residentes. El trabajo muestra que, en relación a los flujos de capital netos, los flujos de capital brutos...
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Marginal tax changes with risky investment
Macnamara, Patrick; Pidkuyko, Myroslav; Rossi, Raffaele - 2021
to be entrepreneurs. Return heterogeneity amplifies the responsiveness of total income to marginal tax changes along the … incentives to invest for the richest, highreturn entrepreneurs, thus amplifying their income responses to marginal tax changes …
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Taxing consumption in unequal economies
Macnamara, Patrick; Pidkuyko, Myroslav; Rossi, Raffaele
El presente trabajo muestra que los impuestos lineales sobre el consumo son una herramienta potente para lograr una redistribución eficiente. Este es el resultado que se obtiene en un modelo cuantitativo de ciclo de vida que replica la distribución de la renta y de la riqueza en Estados...
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Bargaining Chains (Long Version)
Lovejoy, William S. - 2010
We consider a firm that designs a new product and wishes to bring it to market, but does not have ownership or control over all of the resources required to make that happen. The firm must select and contract with one of several possible tier 1 suppliers for necessary inputs, who do the same...
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Three Essays on the Economics of Information Systems.
Jian, Lian - 2010
My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social scientific approach to identify the strategic behavior of individuals in...
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