This paper explores whether a worker's unwillingness to make his/her HIV-positive status or test-taking experience known by colleagues impedes his/her decision to test for HIV. After analyzing the new survey data provided by employees working for a large multinational enterprise in South Africa...

We study the impact of expert reviews on the demand for HIV treatments. A novel feature of our study is that we observe two reviews for each HIV drug and focus attention on consumer responses when experts disagree. Reviews are provided by both a doctor and an activist in the HIV lifestyle...

We study the impact of expert reviews on the demand for HIV treatments. A novel feature of our study is that we observe two reviews for each HIV drug and focus attention on consumer responses when experts disagree. Reviews are provided by both a doctor and an activist in the HIV lifestyle...

This paper models the effect of a HIV/AIDS epidemic on saving behavior and studies the welfare effects of testing for HIV. The model specifies a utility function that includes both regular consumption, and medical expenditures. Medical expenditures generate more utility if individuals are HIV...

Ziel dieses Forschungsvorhabens war es, Erfolgsfaktoren für das unternehmerische Krisenmanagement zu ermitteln. Die Forschungshypothese "In der Krise beweist sich der Charakter" hat sich insofern bestätigt, als deutlich wurde, dass auf der einen Seite die Persönlichkeit des...

Ziel dieses Forschungsvorhabens war es, Erfolgsfaktoren für das unternehmerische Krisenmanagement zu ermitteln. Die Forschungshypothese "In der Krise beweist sich der Charakter" hat sich insofern bestätigt, als deutlich wurde, dass auf der einen Seite die Persönlichkeit des...

In today's world, a new level of commitment is required in order to educate the young generation and e-learning perhaps emerges as an important tool of imparting knowledge and information. The challenge, however, is to provide a suitable means to disseminate disparate information in a dynamic,...

Knowledge-based communities are important but poorly understood systems for helping enterprises maintain their organizational integrity and address organizational imperatives. Based on an autopoietic theory of organization, we examine the emergence and development of knowledge-based communities...

The purpose of this article is to propose a generational view of the organization in order to think about the firm evolution between continuity and adaptation. Especially, we suggest that the “intergenerational transmission of knowledge and competencies” may be an enabler of assets...