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Showing 1 to 20 of 668 for “"Business Administration, Management."”.
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Impacts of cognitive structuring methods on students' critical thinking enhancement in on-line collaborative learning.
Impacts of cognitive structuring methods on students' critical thinking enhancement in on-line collaborative learning.
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The dynamics of marginality in continuing higher education.
The dynamics of marginality in continuing higher education.
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Confident, motivated, successful workgroups: Understanding the antecedents and outcomes of group potency.
Confident, motivated, successful workgroups: Understanding the antecedents and outcomes of group potency.
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Knowledge Management Maturity Model: Theoretical development and preliminary empirical testing.
Knowledge Management Maturity Model: Theoretical development and preliminary empirical testing.
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An investigation of the organizational effects of internal participatory evaluation.
This study investigated internal participators' evaluation as an intervention to enhance organizational learning capacity. In particular, this study examined the nature and causes of observed effects. A national, not-for-profit training organization where the present study's author was employed, …
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Roots and Pathways to Secure and Transformational Leadership
This hermeneutic phenomenological and narrative research study obtained information about the participants’ early family environment indicating secure or insecure beginnings and tracked developmental pathways toward secure and transformational leadership behaviour. The 12 participants shared their …
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Studies on IT, Logistics, and the Structure of Production
… has changed how firms and industries run their businesses and how they organize production. This thesis examines the relationships between IT and three important aspects of production organization: the usage of logistics outsourcing, the interde-dependence with upstream suppliers for …
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Established Firms’ Strategic Decision Making when Faced with Low-End Disruptive Innovation
… incumbent firms respond to emerging disruptive business model innovations (i.e., substantive changes in the way the value is created and appropriated) in their industries? Despite much discussion, the current literature provides no clear-cut answer. This lack of theoretical understanding is …
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Perspectives on Human Resource Practices: Divergences in Time, Theoretical Linkages and Process
Research in Human Resource Management (HRM) has helped scholars understand the value of systems of people practices for organizations, but the discipline faces a number of challenges in moving its agenda forward. In particular, understanding and specifying how those systems translate into improved …
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The Relationship Between Quality Management, Organizational Learning, and Organizational Performance
… activities are important determinants for business performance while knowledge accumulation activities are not.
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Self-Authorship in Executive Women: A Qualitative Study of Perceptions and Experience
This study qualitatively explores the effects of personal and professional experiences on the evolution of self-authorship through in-depth case studies of four successful female executives. The study is grounded in Baxter Magolda's (2004a) theory of the evolution of self-authorship development, …
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Product and Exchange of Attributes in Defining Boundaries for Value -Added Corn and Soybean Markets
This dissertation examines three issues related to the determination of product and market boundaries in agricultural markets. In the first paper, we use an estimated processed valuation model and quality data obtained from international processors, to examine whether soybean quality attributes …
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Causes and Consequences of Board Composition
This dissertation examines the causes and consequences of patterns in the composition of American boards of directors. The three papers each focus on one type of corporate director: outsiders, women, and workers. The results from the outside director paper suggest that companies employing more …
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When Does Self -Efficacy Enhance Performance? Effects of Autonomous Regulation in Culturally Diverse Groups
Numerous studies have examined the self-efficacy-performance relationship at the between-person level and reported a positive relationship consistent with social cognitive theory. As social cognitive theory also contends a positive self-efficacy-performance relationship at the within-person level, …
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The Relationships Between Work -Family Conflicts, Individual Cultural Orientation, Efficacy Beliefs and Work-Related Outcomes in China and United States
Previous research on work-family conflict has mainly focused on the influence of the conflict on work-related outcomes in North American Samples. Relatively few studies have systematically examined whether work-family conflict affects individuals in developing economies in the similar way as it …
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Can the Tables Be Turned? Linking Racioethnicity, Leader -Member Exchange (Lmx) and Career Satisfaction
The study found that Asian Americans, compared with their European American counterparts, do seem to have lower levels of LMX with their European American supervisors. Some personal characteristics however can interact with racioethnicity and help Asian Americans to enhance their level of LMX. …
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Examining the Impact of Demographic Characteristics on Employees' Benefits Preferences: The Study of a U.S. Manufacturing Corporation
Thus, while limited to interpretations of one organizational setting, the results of this dissertation do indicate some employee differences based on grouping according to personal characteristics. The key implication of this research is that before incurring the costs of complicated benefits …
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Three Essays on Managerial Compensation
"The third chapter examines multi-year dynamic response of CEO compensation to firm performance. Multi-period agency theories posit that the CEO's current performance can be compensated both today and tomorrow. This study investigates the dynamic view of CEO pay and firm performance by using …
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Competitive Advantage, HRM Strategy, and Firm Performance: The Experiences of Indigenous Firms and MNC Subsidiaries in Korea and Taiwan
For comparison purposes, organizational-level cross-sectional data were collected from both Korea (N = 138) and Taiwan (N = 52) by a survey instrument. The subjects for this study were HR managers of each firm. Each sample also includes both indigenous firms and foreign subsidiaries from the USA, …
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