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Acquiring overseas market knowledge: a comparison of strategies of expatriate and immigrant employees
Enderwick, Peter - In: Journal of Asia Business Studies 5 (2011) 1, pp. 77-97
Purpose – This conceptual paper starts from the recognition that internationalisation of business is an information‐intensive process and aims to investigate two key modes for the acquisition of knowledge: expatriates and immigrant employees. Design/methodology/approach – The paper sets...
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Employment and wage assimilation of male first‐generation immigrants in Denmark
Husted, Leif; Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Rosholm, Michael; … - In: International Journal of Manpower 22 (2001) 1/2, pp. 39-71
Labour market assimilation of Danish first‐generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering … the population of immigrants and 10 per cent of the Danish population during 1984‐1995. Wages and employment probabilities … selectivity due to missing wage information. The results show that immigrants assimilate partially to Danes, but the assimilation …
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Recent immigrant newcomers’ socialization in the workplace
Malik, Amina; Manroop, Laxmikant - In: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 36 (2017) 5, pp. 382-400
facilitate their workplace adjustment. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on immigrants, socialization, and diversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014720625
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Cloaked culture and veiled diversity: why theorists ignored early US workforce diversity
Landis Kurowski, Lois - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 2, pp. 183-191
This paper examines four questions: Was the US workforce diverse in previous times? What were the origins of its diversity? How did management scholars of the past view the diversity of the US workforce? Why did they view diversity as they did? While the workforce was diverse, particularly in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014932274
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Public goods, sustainable development and business accountability
Bardy, Roland - In: World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 13 (2017) 1, pp. 34-43
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a linkage between performance measurement at the business level and the concept of public goods usage, and a linkage between the micro- and macro-economic aspects of sustainability. Design/methodology/approach Exhibiting the essentials of a public...
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KPMG’s True Value methodology
Coulson, Andrea B. - In: Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal 7 (2016) 4, pp. 517-530
methodology helps its producers understand the potential risk to future earnings posed by current externalities being internalised …. Originality/value The study is a constructive critique of this contemporary, financial practice of accounting for externalities …
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Social capital as a mechanism for exploring the low educational achievements of looked after children
McClung, Michele; Gayle, Vernon - In: Journal of Children's Services 8 (2013) 1, pp. 52-64
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore whether the concept of social capital is helpful in explaining the educational underachievement of looked after children. Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of data on educational achievement and social care in a cohort of 1,407...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014852616
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Promoting transformative encounters in libraries and archives
Lowe, Carli V. - In: Journal of Documentation 79 (2022) 2, pp. 431-441
Transformative Education (TE) theory to existing understandings of IE. This paper aims to discuss the potential for librarians and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014855013
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Preparation for safeguarding in UK pre-registration graduate nurse education
McGarry, Julie; Baker, Charley; Wilson, Claire; Felton, Anne - In: The Journal of Adult Protection 17 (2015) 6, pp. 371-379
responsibility. It is therefore pivotal that professionals receive the requisite education, skills and knowledge at the earliest … inform similar education programmes.  …
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Qualifying for leadership or control masquerading as enlightenment?
Milliken, John - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 15 (2002) 4, pp. 281-295
The 1988 Education Reform Act marked a fundamental shift in direction for the education service and represented a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014798713