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the case of researchers who do not use English, and on multilingualism in the area. …
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All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things ‘correctly’, while others, until proven otherwise, are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric. When people from different cultures work together and cannot take shared meanings for granted, managers face serious challenges. An...
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The performance of individual stockbrokers differs. This paper aims at explaining these differences, or at least at making some sense of them. In a study of fourteen stockbrokers, the high performing brokers described their working life in a systematically different way, compared to the low...
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Consider team production with two people. Each is characterized by a prior distribution that he will do Right or Wrong. After the outcome of the project is observed, these probabilities are updated. When output depends on the weakest link in production, following project failure the posterior...
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This study investigates under what circumstances there exist a separating equilibrium in which competent leaders choose incompetent co-workers and incompetent leaders choose competent co-workers. The driving force for the competent leader is the insurance motive; if things go wrong he can blame...
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A separating equilibrium in which competent (incompetent) leaders choose competent (incompetent) co-workers is investigated. An outside observer rewards the leader at good policy outcomes. The incompetent co-worker can, at bad outcomes, be used as scapegoat. By assumption, the leader may fail in...
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quality if his/her task depends of his/her competence and independence (De Angelo, 1981). However, some studies present a … contradictory approach of the relatve status of competence and independence. Moreover the research studies, but also the post Enron … regulations, have been mainly focused to independence. Is this lower interest for competence justified? Is a bad auditor mainly a …
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The purpose of this article is to propose a generational view of the organization in order to think about the firm evolution between continuity and adaptation. Especially, we suggest that the “intergenerational transmission of knowledge and competencies” may be an enabler of assets...
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