Search Results - subject:"Objective function"

How much do firms pay as bribes and what benefits do they get? Evidence from corruption cases worldwide

Cheung, Yan Leung - 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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On Good Scholarship, Goal Setting, and Scholars Gone Wild

Ordonez, Lisa D. - 2012

In this article, we define good scholarship, highlight our points of disagreement with Locke and Latham (2009), and call for further academic research to examine the full range of goal setting's effects. We reiterate our original claim that goal setting, like a potent medication, can produce...

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Pro-social missions and worker motivation : an experimental study

Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - 2012

Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether subjects provide higher effort if they can choose the mission of their job. We observe that subjects do not provide higher effort than in a control treatment. Surprised by this...

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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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Fairness, Justice, Subjectivity, Objectivity and Goal Congruence in Management Control Systems

Rosanas, Josep M.; Cugueró-Escofet, Natàlia - 2012

Management control systems are intended to motivate managers to ensure that organizational goals are accomplished. They do this by rewarding and promoting people according to certain criteria. Usually, they are designed to achieve the greatest possible goal congruence, where people pursue...

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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation : An Experimental Study

Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - 2012

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Goals Gone Wild : The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting

Ordonez, Lisa D.; Schweitzer, Maurice E.; Galinsky, Adam D. - 2012

Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the management literature. Hundreds of studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and boost performance....

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Considering the Shareholder Perspective : Value-based Management Systems and Stock Market Performance

Rapp, Marc Steffen - 2012

We empirically study the use of value-based management systems in listed German firms and examine implications for firms' stock market performance. Using a novel, hand-collected data set covering 1,083 firm years from 2002 to 2008, we find that value-based management systems become increasingly...

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Performance-Management im Produktionsanlauf

Renner, Tim - 2012

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A Smart Structural Algorithm (SSA) Based on Infeasible Region to Solve Mixed Integer Problems

Salmani, Mohammad Hassan; Eshghi, Kourosh - In: International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 24-44

value is kept for the objective function. The algorithm examines the space in such terms as Infeasibility and Objective …

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