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- Impact And The Art Of Motivation Maintenance: The Effects Of Contact With Beneficiaries On Persistence Behavior
- This paper tested the hypothesis that employees are willing to maintain their motivation when their work is relationally designed to provide opportunities for respectful contact with the beneficiaries of their efforts. In Experiment 1, a longitudinal Weld experiment in a fundraising organization, callers in an intervention group briefly interacted with...
- White papers 2005-07-19
- Multinational Enterprise Strategy, Foreign Direct Investment And Economic Development
- This paper examines Foreign Direct Investment FDI in the Hungarian economy in the period of post-Communist transition since 1989. Hungary took a quite aggressive approach in welcoming foreign investment during this period and as a result had the highest per capita FDI in the region as of 2001.We discuss the...
- White papers 2005-06-14
- Product Development Resource Allocation With Foresight
- Shortening project duration is critical to product development project success in many industries. As a primary driver of progress and an effective management tool, resource allocation among development activities can strongly influence project duration. Effective allocation is difficult due to the inherent closed loop flow of development work and the...
- White papers 2003-10-27
- The Impact Of Puritan Ideology On Aspects Of Project Management
- This paper examines the impact of Puritan ideology on various aspects of project management. By using a memetic approach to project management research, this paper traces the development of the ethos or spirit of project management from its Puritan origins. It argues that contrary to traditional thinking, project management has...
- White papers 2006-05-24
- Is The IPO Pricing Process Efficient?
- This paper investigates underwriters' treatment of public information throughout the IPO Initial Public Offering pricing process. Two key findings emerge. First, public information is not fully incorporated into the initial price range. While the economic magnitude of the bias is small, it is puzzling because it is not clear who...
- White papers 2003-03-21
- A Memetic Paradigm Of Project Management
- This paper aims to fuel the discussion on examining project management research from different perspectives. A new memetic approach to project management is presented that promotes a new way to examine the discipline of project management. Project management is claimed to be a memeplex with the language and stories of...
- White papers 2005-06-10
- Three Conceptual Levels Of Construction Project Management Work
- The widespread use of project management standards for professional competence assessment and development is based on a rationalistic approach, whereby competence is seen as constituted by a pre-defined set of attributes in the form of knowledge topics. Yet little is known about whether and how these attributes are used by...
- White papers 2006-02-28
- One-Sided Elasticities And Technical Efficiency In Multi-Output Production: A Theoretical Framework
- One of the concepts that have sparked considerable interest in the theory of production and efficiency is that of Returns To Scale RTS. Economics researchers typically define RTS using the notion of elasticity. Considerable research activity on RTS has also been observed by management science researchers, who utilize the methodology...
- White papers 2004-08-03
- Technological Convergence, R&D, Trade And Productivity Growth
- This paper analyses productivity growth in a panel of 14 United Kingdom manufacturing industries since 1970. Innovation and technology transfer provide two potential sources of productivity growth for a country behind the technological frontier. Paper examines the roles played by Research and Development (R&D), international trade, and human capital in...
- White papers 2003-05-12
- Elasticity Of Substitution And Productivity, Capital And Skill Intensity Differences Across Firms
- Empirical analyses reveal tremendous heterogeneity in output, labor productivity and input mix across firms even in narrowly defined industries. This paper, instrumented with six theorems, shows that differences between firms in labor productivity, capital intensity and relative demand for skilled labor can be explained by differences in the substitution parameters...
- White papers 2005-12-27
- Policy Competition For Foreign Direct Investment Between Asymmetric Countries
- The present paper analyses policy competition for foreign direct investment between countries of different size and different market structure. We demonstrate how policy competition affects the location decision of the foreign investor and derive welfare implications. The key variables in our analysis are intra-regional trade costs, differences in market size,...
- White papers 2005-11-28
- Shareholder Wealth Effects And Bid Negotiation In Freeze-Out Deals
- This paper examines the shareholder wealth effects of bids by controlling shareholders seeking to acquire the remaining minority equity stake in a firm, deals commonly referred to as minority freeze-outs. Minority claimants in freeze-out offers receive an allocation of deal surplus at the bid announcement that exceeds their pro rata...
- White papers 2006-03-20
- A Comparative Analysis Of New Product Development In Italy And Japan
- We develop six measurement scales for practices, process, strategic guide, and capabilities for new product development as potential determinants of its performance, based on the survey data from Italian and Japanese companies. Eight indicators are proposed to measure new product development performance. Employing a regression model with a country dummy...
- White papers 2005-05-02
- Learning Process In New Product Development Teams And Effects On Product Success
- The study purports to develop and empirically test a model of team learning process and its effects on team performance in new product development teams. Using the socio-cognitive theory of learning in groups and organizations, several hypotheses were tested to show that the primer components of social cognition form an...
- White papers 2005-02-06
- Contracting For Major Projects: Eight Business Levers For Top Management
- The management of major projects invariably involves the design of contracts between the client and one or many specialized contractors. The design of the project contract has a major impact on the economic success of both parties and on the behavior of the parties in their attempt to maximize their...
- White papers 2003-01-28
- Designing Online Auctions With Past Performance Information
- The value of past performance information is investigated in the context of keyword advertising auctions, where advertisers differ both in valuation-per-click and in the numbers of clicks they can generate their performance. This paper focuses on weighted unit price- contract UPC auctions, in which bidders bid unit prices and pay...
- White papers 2005-12-20
- From Application Outsourcing To Infrastructure Management
- Offshore Outsourcing is an increasing IS/IT (Information System/Information Technology) strategy that relies on third party Service Providers typically located in developing, low wage countries. The scale and scope is extending from traditional application development activities to embrace infrastructure management. It poses additional risks on both Service Recipients and Providers, which...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Technology Roadmapping In Review: A Tool For Making Sustainable New Product Development Decisions
- Typically, firms decide whether or not to develop a new product based on their resources, capabilities and the return on investment that the product is estimated to generate. The publisher proposes that firms adopt a broader heuristic for making new product development choices. The heuristic approach requires moving beyond traditional...
- White papers 2003-04-29
- Product-Driven Supply Chain Selection Using Integrated Multi-Criteria Decision-making Methodology
- Effective supply chain design calls for robust analytical models and design tools. Previous works in this area are mostly Operation Research oriented without considering manufacturing aspects. Recently, researchers have begun to realize that the decision and integration effort in supply chain design should be driven by the manufactured product, specifically,...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Face Threat Sensitivity In Negotiation: Roadblock To Agreement And Joint Gain
- Negotiation scholars and practitioners have long noted the impact of face, or social image, concerns on negotiation outcomes. When face is threatened, negotiators are less likely to reach agreement and to create joint gain. In this paper, the publisher explores individual differences in face threat sensitivity FTS, and how a...
- White papers 2004-05-13
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