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Challenges facing small-firm managers in growing manufacturing firms

Tell, Joakim - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 4 (2015), pp. 1-12

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to better understand the management challenges facing managers in small growing firms. Design/methodology/approach: Empirical data have been collected in Sweden through structured observations (approx. 20,000 min) of the working days of six top managers in...

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How sensitive are matching estimates of active labor market policy effects to typically unobserved confounders?

Tübbicke, Stefan - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16

Using a rich and unique combined administrative-survey dataset, this paper explores how sensitive propensity score (PS) matching estimates of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs) based on the selection-on-observables assumption are to typically unobserved covariates. Using a sample of German...

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The intuition of punishment: A study of fairness preferences and cognitive ability

Seier, Markus - In: Games 11 (2020) 2, pp. 1-25

Can differences in cognitive reflection explain other-regarding behavior? To test this, I use the three-item Cognitive … Reflection Task to classify individuals as intuitive or reflective and correlate this measure with choices in three games that … and a third-party punishment task. Subjects afterwards completed the three-item Cognitive Reflection Test. Results showed …

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EMPLOYEES' decision-making power in universities: Employees' right or taken for granted REALITIES?

Tohidian, Iman; Abbaspour, Abbas - In: Cogent Business & Management 7 (2020) 1, pp. 1-17

Internationally, state and non-state organizations are often managed based on an organization chart where sections are illustrated based on their management and decision-making power. Employees, as the main administrative body at these organizations, are generally represented as executive work...

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A conceptual framework on individual investors' learning behavior in the context of stock trading: An integrated perspective

Shantha, Kalugala Vidanalage Aruna; Chen, Xiaofang; … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-22

trading. The intentional or consciousness form of learning occurs as individual learning through reflection of past trading …

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Developing Managers as Learners and Researchers: Using Action Learning and Action Research

Raelin, Joseph A.; Coghlan, David - In: Journal of Management Education 30 (2006) 5, pp. 670-689

This article takes the view that formal educational programs often miss opportunities to use the rich experiences of working managers to produce both learning and knowledge. Two alternative pedagogical approaches, action learning and action research, are proposed as contributing to management...

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"I Don't Have Time to Think!" versus the Art of Reflective Practice

Raelin, Joseph A. - In: Reflections: The SoL Journal 4 (2002) 1, pp. 66-79

This article and its commentaries shed light on reflective practice, a reflection of past experiences to ponder the …

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Public Reflection as the Basis of Learning

Raelin, Joseph A. - In: Management Learning 32 (2001) 1, pp. 11-30

It is through public reflection that we may create a collective identity as a community of inquiry. But how does public … reflection differ from introspection, and how does it contribute to self and organizational learning? In this article, the author … project-based learning experience. After defining the concept, the article illustrates why reflection is fundamental to …

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The Design of the Action Project in Work-Based Learning

Raelin, Joseph A. - In: Human Resource Planning 22 (1999) 3, pp. 12-28

This paper attempts to remedy the inattention heretofore paid to the action project in the work-based learning literature. It begins with the assertion that there can be no substitute for real-time experience in human resource planning and development programs. Action projects afford real-time...

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Designing business model development tools for sustainability—a design science study

Schoormann, Thorsten; Stadtländer, Maren; Knackstedt, Ralf - In: Electronic Markets 32 (2021) 2, pp. 645-667

The development of business models that boost fundamental changes in behavior to act more economically, ecologically, and socially is a challenging task because the consideration of sustainability is a multidimensional problem characterized by uncertainty and value conflicts. In order to deal...

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