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In this paper we analyze a dynamic agency problem where contracting parties do not know the agent's future productivity at the beginning of the relationship. We consider a two-period model where both the agent and the principal observe the agent's second-period productivity at the end of the...
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Purpose: The question of resource scarcity and emerging pressure of environmental legislations has brought a new challenge for the manufacturing industry. On the one hand, there is a huge population that demands a large quantity of commodities; on the other hand, these demands have to be met by...
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To date, measuring innovation has not been an exact science. As in many areas of organizational life, errors in … measuring innovation are a recurring fact. Innovation researchers and practitioners alike have become increasingly interested in … understanding the occurrence of organizational errors and how these errors affect innovation and its measurement. This empirical …
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Measuring innovation is a challenging but essential task to improve business performance. To tackle this task, key … performance indicators (KPIs) can be used to measure and monitor innovation. The objective of this study is to explore how KPIs …, designed for measuring innovation, are used in practice. To achieve this objective, the author draws upon literature on …
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The present work is a taxonomy study which describes the improve teams create in the University of the Basque Country from ten years ago. Promoters, participants, sex and subject.
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several PhD and postdoctoral students are supervised by a team of cooperating senior researchers. Our empirical analysis is …
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Industrial organization is mainly concerned with the behavior of large firms, especially when it comes to oligopoly theory. Experimental industrial organization, therefore, faces a problem: How can firms be brought into the laboratory? The main approach relies on framing: Call individuals...
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on team-based management factors and their influence on a new venture's growth and ability to raise capital. This paper … topic by proposing five clusters of major team-specific influences, derives determinants of success and failure, and reveals …
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Very few papers analyse PMS implementation in developing and transitional countries and the importance of PMS implementation for success in transition. Providing a Serbian perspective on PMS implementation, the study aims to identify and analyze important factors and variables that influence PMS...
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Is it possible to control and optimize technology transfer process? Engineers and quality practitioners are often faced with the problem of determining the optimal choice of key factor in the tolerance process evaluation regarding the quality of the process to be monitored. To guarantee a...
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