More often than not production processes are the joint endeavor of people having different abilities and productivities. Such production processes and the associated surplus production are often not fully transparent in the sense that the relative contributions of involved agents are blurred;...

India's bilateral cooperation under the scheme of Mekong-Ganga co-operation is significant. The bilateral co-operation between and Lao and India is also significant for regional and sub-regional development. India as a development partner of Lao PDR envisaged various bilateral and multilateral...

This Article shall submit to the following methods of analysis at work: observation, interview, questionnaire, diary and describe their activities, techniques for determining the skills (we refer especially to the critical incident technique) and hierarchical task analysis. The discussion is...

We find that firms with insider sales executed under Rule 10b5-1 plans exhibit a higher likelihood of meeting or beating analysts' earnings expectations (MBE). This relation between MBE and plan sales is more pronounced for the plan sales of chief executive officers (CEOs) and chief financial...

Individuals dominate money in politics, accounting for over 90% of federal campaign contributions, yet studies of individuals' giving patterns are scarce. We construct a new dataset to examine all of the contributions made between 1991 and 2008 by all 2,198 people who served as S&P 500 CEOs for...

Under GAAP, SEC and exchange-listing rules, managers must disclose material information. We construct a disclosure specification incorporating managers' obligation to disclose material information and voluntary disclosure incentives. We demonstrate that tests of the incentives to voluntarily...

Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'entrepreneurship' shapes people's occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...

We study how summer internship application choices of MBA students at a major university are influenced by the application choices made by their fellow students. We develop a simultaneous model of each individual's choice as a function of other students' choices. Our model of interdependence in...

This paper presents the main findings of the author's study of statistics as well as European surveys on working conditions. Such solutions enabled to compare the data and make the results more reliable. The collected data concerns all Member States of the Euro-pean Union, where it was...