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Simulating Project Work Processes and Organizations: Toward a Micro-Contingency Theory of Organizational Design

Levitt, Raymond E.; Thomsen, Jan; Christiansen, Tore R.; … - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 11, pp. 1479-1495

The Virtual Design Team (VDT) extends and operationalizes Galbraith's (1973) information-processing view of organizations. VDT simulates the micro-level information processing, communication, and coordination behavior of participants in a project organization and predicts several measures of...

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Les branches professionnelles sont-elles toujours un lieu pertinent de négociation des normes d'emploi ?

Vincent, Catherine; Tallard, Michèle - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

À l'heure où les pouvoirs publics privilégient le « dialogue social » pour la mise en oeuvre de leurs politiques d'emploi et favorisent ainsi tant la négociation interprofessionnelle que la négociation d'entreprise, on peut s'interroger sur la place laissée à la branche, historiquement...

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Superstar Effects in Sport: Evidence From Italian Soccer

Lucifora, Claudio; Simmons, Rob - In: Journal of Sports Economics 4 (2003) 1, pp. 35-55

This article investigates wage determination among professional soccer players appearing in the Italian league. Given the popularity of "top" soccer players, the relationship between individual productivity and pay can lead to "superstar" effects. In that context, the marginal revenue product of...

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The Economics of Professional Boxing Contracts

Tenorio, Rafael - In: Journal of Sports Economics 1 (2000) 4, pp. 363-384

This article analyzes the characteristics and incentive effects of contractual practices in professional boxing. A boxer's "purse" is linked to post rather than contemporaneous performance, thereby creating an incentives problem. Although consumption-smoothing considerations alleviate this...

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The Origin of the Reserve Clause: Owner Collusion versus 'Public Interest'

Eckard, E. Woodrow - In: Journal of Sports Economics 2 (2001) 2, pp. 113-130

This article examines the creation of the first professional athletic labor market restriction over a century ago. In 1879, professional baseball club owners mutually agreed that each could reserve five players whom the others would not sign without permission, justifying the action by claiming...

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THE IMPACT OF NEW CIVIL JURIDICAL INSTITUTIONS ON BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

IGNĂTESCU, Camelia - In: European Journal of Law and Public Administration 1 (2014) 1, pp. 31-36

Knowledge, application and interpretation of the limits in which the trade can be carried out in accordance with current legislation ensures investments security and stability of business relationships. The professional and the enterprise are two technical terms that replace the words merchant...

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Public history’ as a vocation

Savelieva, Irina - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

The paper analyzes the contents and objectives of ‘public history’, the relationship between scholarly and popular knowledge, conventions governing the representation of the past out-side the academic context, and the transfer of scholarly knowledge from academic to media environment. The...

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Professionals as strategists? Channelling and organizing distributed strategizing

Lusiani, Maria; Langley, Ann - Dipartimento di Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2013

how professionals participated in strategy work and the tools they drew on to do so. The study shows how professionalsÕ …

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Professionals¡¯ Perceptions of and Approach to Parents with Intellectual Disability: A Question of Knowledge?

Karin J?reskog; Starke, Mikaela - In: International Journal of Social Science Studies 1 (2013) 2, pp. 20-30

Research on the encounters and interaction between support professionals and parents with intellectual disability (ID …) points to certain complications in their relationship, as viewed from either side. To better understand the professionals … 21 Swedish professionals in the field. The theory of social representations is used to analyse the results from one …

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Investors' trading activity, a behavioural perspective: professionals vs. individuals

Kourtidis, Dimitrios; Å½eljko Å evi?; Chatzoglou, … - In: International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance 2 (2011) 3/4, pp. 346-366

investors: professionals and individuals. The results will expand investors' knowledge about the financial decision …

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