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		<title><![CDATA[Corporate Transparency, Cream-Skimming And FDI]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=312788]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The authors develop a simple information-based model of Foreign Direct Investment FDI flows. On the one hand, the relative abundance of ''Intangible'' capital in specialized industries in the source countries, which presumably generates expertise in screening investment projects in the host countries, enhances FDI flows. On the other hand, host-country...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Impact Of Puritan Ideology On Aspects Of Project Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=316708]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/elsevier.html"><![CDATA[Elsevier]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shareholder Wealth Effects And Bid Negotiation In Freeze-Out Deals]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=321501]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Possibilistic Decision Model For New Product Supply Chain Design]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=276759]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper explains Supply Chain SC uncertainties by fuzzy sets and develops a possibilistic SC configuration model for new products with unreliable or unavailable SC statistical data. The supply chain is modeled as a network of stages. Each stage may have one or more options characterized by the cost and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Three Conceptual Levels Of Construction Project Management Work]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=316484]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/project+manager.html"><![CDATA[Project Manager]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Elasticity Of Substitution And Productivity, Capital And Skill Intensity Differences Across Firms]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314210]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Designing Online Auctions With Past Performance Information]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=324262]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/performance.html"><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Do Tax Havens Divert Economic Activity?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313962]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When multinational firms expand their operations in tax havens, do they divert activity from non-havens? Much of the debate on tax competition presumes that the answer to this question is yes. This paper offers a model for examining the relationship between activity in havens and non-havens, and discusses the implications...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Policy Competition For Foreign Direct Investment Between Asymmetric Countries]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=317333]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Semantic Annotation for Knowledge Management: Requirements and a Survey of the State of the Art]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=272358]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[While much of a company's knowledge can be found in text repositories, current content management systems have limited capabilities for structuring and interpreting documents. In the emerging Semantic Web, search, interpretation and aggregation can be addressed by ontology-based semantic mark-up. In this paper, the authors examine semantic annotation, identify a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Strategic Outsourcing Revisited]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313947]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper analyzes a sequential game where firms decide about outsourcing the production of a non-specific input good to an imperfectly competitive input market. It applies the taxonomy of business strategies introduced by Fudenberg and Tirole (1984) to characterize the different equilibria and find that outsourcing generally softens competition in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/elsevier.html"><![CDATA[Elsevier]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[On The Interpretative Flexibility Of Hosted ERP Systems]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313854]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper explores the interpretative flexibility of ERP Enterprise Resource Planning systems through the study of a project to implement a hosted system for the Central Accounting Department of a large multinational. The paper presents intensive case study data around the decision to implement the system and analyses it in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Impact And The Art Of Motivation Maintenance: The Effects Of Contact With Beneficiaries On Persistence Behavior]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=328490]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Multinational Enterprise Strategy, Foreign Direct Investment And Economic Development]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=317321]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Memetic Paradigm Of Project Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=316607]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/elsevier.html"><![CDATA[Elsevier]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Comparative Analysis Of New Product Development In Italy And Japan]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=324302]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Truly Costly Sequential Search And Oligopolistic Pricing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=276328]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When all price quotations are costly to obtain, the unique symmetric equilibrium need not involve full consumer participation. The region of parameters for which non-shoppers do not fully participate in the market becomes larger as the number of shoppers decreases and/or the number of firms increases. The comparative static's properties...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[From Application Outsourcing To Infrastructure Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=321706]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/infrastructure+management.html"><![CDATA[Infrastructure Management]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Complexity Of Contract Negotiation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=321521]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The use of software agents for automatic contract negotiation in e-commerce and e-trading environments has been the subject of considerable recent interest. A widely studied abstract model considers the setting in which a set of agents have some collection of resources shared out between them and attempt to construct a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Learning Process In New Product Development Teams And Effects On Product Success]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=324275]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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