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A Market’s Reward Scheme, Media Attention, and the Transitory Success of Managerial Change
Süssmuth, Bernd; Wagner, Stefan - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 232 (2012) 3, pp. 258-278
Summary Against the background of growing media interest in professional soccer, this paper proposes a moral hazard model with costly state verification to explain how rule changes affecting the reward scheme of team performance impact on the success of managerial change. As has been shown...
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How Should Standards Be Set and Met?: On the Allocation of Regulatory Power in a Federal System
Lin, C.-Y. Cynthia - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 10 (2010) 1
reverse form of delegation, in which local governments choose their own individual standards which the central government then …
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Endogenous Favoritism in Organizations
Kwon, Illoong - In: Topics in Theoretical Economics 6 (2006) 1
This paper shows that favoritism can arise endogenously as an optimal decision rule in a symmetric model with an ex-ante impartial principal. Furthermore, favoritism dominates fairness specifically when the favorite promotes his own idea and ignores the other's idea so that the non-favorite...
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Distribution Channel Relationships in Diverse Cultures
Kale, Sudhir H.; McIntyre, Roger P. - In: International Marketing Review 8 (1991) 3
One of the main functions of culture is division of labour among various actors in society. Since the global environment is characterised by diverse and deep‐rooted cultural norms and value systems, the nature of this division of labour across cultures should exhibit systematic differences....
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Delegation revisited: how delegation can benefit globally-minded managers
G. Banford, Christopher; Ronald Buckley, M.; Roberts, Foster - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 44 (2014) 8/9, pp. 646-654
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the effectiveness of delegation as a management practice is … delegation as it has been studied in the past and a reflection on the ways in which past research can usefully inform current … trends in the use of delegation as a management practice. Findings – A model is proposed that suggests that the effectiveness …
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Supply network delegation and intervention strategies during supplier involvement in new product development
Johnsen, Thomas E. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 31 (2011) 6, pp. 686-708
suppliers in new product development (NPD): supply network delegation; and supply network intervention. The implications of the … the two strategies of supply network intervention and delegation, when applied as part of supplier involvement in product … development, and positive and negative indications of delegation and intervention, depending on the actor perspective …
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Entrepreneurs – Reality and Rhetoric
Lennon, John; Vannocci, Ivo - In: International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 1 (1989) 2
This article aims to produce some practical evidence of how management innovation can be encouraged in the context of a small hotel group. The analysis is developed from a review of literature on entrepreneurship combined with a practical managerial perspective on operations management.
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Delegation outcomes: perceptions of leaders and follower’s satisfaction
Drescher, Gesche - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 32 (2017) 1, pp. 2-15
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships among delegation, employees’ perceptions of leader …. Design/methodology/approach To test how employees evaluate delegation, an experimental study (study 1: n =304) and a … longitudinal field questionnaire (study 2: n =109) were implemented. Findings The results of study 1 showed that leader delegation …
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Realising integrative care by delegation
van Offenbeek, Marjolein A.G. - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 18 (2004) 2, pp. 111-127
Hospital managers are constantly confronted with capacity and continuity problems that tempt them to investigate the possibility of further job differentiation. In The Netherlands, the hospital physician represents a new breed of physicians who are not oriented towards a medical specialism but...
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The influence of organizational design on knowledge transfer
Martín‐Pérez, Víctor; Martín‐Cruz, Natalia; … - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 16 (2012) 3, pp. 418-434
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how organizational design – particularly, delegation, and extrinsic … the research hypotheses. Findings – The research findings show that delegation involves a greater use of rewards and these …
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