Search Results - subject:"Objective function"

How Much Do Firms Pay as Bribes and What Benefits Do They Get? Evidence from Corruption Cases Worldwide

Cheung, Stephen Y. L. - 2012

We analyze a hand-collected sample of 166 prominent bribery cases, involving 107 publicly listed firms from 20 stock markets that have been reported to have bribed government officials in 52 countries worldwide during 1971-2007. We focus on the initial date of award of the contract for which the...

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Zielerreichungsgrad bestehender Supply-Chain-Management-Konzepte : Ergebnisse einer Praxisstudie

Göpfert, Ingrid; Wellbrock, Wanja - 2012

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Why every company needs a CSR strategy and how to build it

Rangan, Kash; Chase, Lisa A.; Karim, Sohel - 2012

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Goal achievement in supply chain networks : a study of the Ukrainian agri-food business

Gagalyuk, Taras - 2012

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A theory of explicitly formulated strategy

Van den Steen, Eric - 2012

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How do companies invest in corporate social responsibility? : an ordonomic contribution for empirical CSR research

Will, Matthias Georg; Hielscher, Stefan - 2012

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Group goal setting in age-diverse teams : investigating the role of goal clarity and reflexivity

Davidson, Tina; Dewettinck, Koen; Baets, Shari de - 2012

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How do companies invest in corporate social responsibility? : an ordonomic contribution for empirical CSR research

Will, Matthias Georg; Hielscher, Stefan - 2012

This paper takes both a conceptual and an empirical approach to answer the question of how CSR can be connected to the company’s role as an agent of social value creation that operates within an imperfect institutional framework of market competition. To develop a functional design for an...

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Goals (th)at work : goals, monetary incentives, and workers' performance

Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kube, Sebastian - 2012

In a randomized field experiment, we investigate the connection between work goals, monetary incentives, and work performance. Employees are observed in a natural work environment where they have to do a simple, but effort-intense task. Output is perfectly observable and workers are paid for...

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Endowment Management Based on a Positive Model of the University

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2012

endowments and tuition subsidies. The model proposes a specific objective function: a university maximizes its contribution to … the intellectual capital of society, valued at social returns. The objective function is enforced within the model-that is …, it leads to actions that reinforce the initial selection of the objective function. Endowments also arise naturally …

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