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Practical studies in e-governance: An empirical exploration of enterprise resource planning
Thomson, J - 2010
Public e-procurement has enabled innovation in government and transformed technological platforms and the way governments procure goods and services and engage with suppliers (Hardy and Williams, 2007; Lee, Tan and Trimi, 2005; Moe, 2004). Leveraging information technology to achieve better information,...
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Trust and Reciprocity in the Market-Based Provision of Public Goods. Experimental Evidence and Applications to Conservation Tenders
Vogt, Nora - 2013
Zahlungen für Ökosystemdienstleistungen (Payments for Ecosystem Services – PES) und auktionsbasierte Vergabeverfahren sind ein wichtiges und innovatives Instrument im Kampf gegen den fortwährenden Verlust von biologischer Vielfalt. Basierend auf einem Vertrag zwischen einem...
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Steuerverteilung und Finanzausgleich
Gamsachurdia, Giwi - 2007
This paper analyzes fundamental shortcomings in the Georgian legal bases in both the constitution and the tax code with regard to a sustainable fiscal policy. It shows that the lack of experience with sharing political powers and competences among the administrative levels create centralizing...
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Is Courtesy Enough?Solidarity in Call Center Interactions
Rogers, Priscilla - 2008
response strategies that are tightly related to each other and to courtesy: shows solidarity, anticipates needs, shows … attentiveness, and asks for direction. Correlations and analysis of their enactment in stressful calls led us to propose solidarity … expressionresponses that engage the caller in search of meaning to work on the task as a team. We argue that solidarity expression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476745
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Accounting for externalities in the measurement of productivity growth: the Malmquist cost productivity measure.
Ball, E.; Fare, R.; Grosskopf, S.; Zaim, O. - 2005
This paper starts with the basic premise: that conventional measures of productivity growth - - -often used as a measure of corporate performance - - -which ignore external or social output, are biased. We then construct an alternative productivity growth measure using activity analysis which...
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14.662 Labor Economics II, Spring 2005
Autor, David H.; Piore, Michael J. - 2005
The development and evolution of labor market structures and institutions. Particular focus on competing explanations of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and organizational structures. Special attention to theories of worker motivation and...
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Networks, Information & Social Capital
Aral, Sinan; Van Alstyne, Marshall - 2008
This paper investigates how information flows enable social networks to constitute social capital. By analyzingthe information content encoded in email communication in an executive recruiting firm, we examinethe long held but empirically untested assumption that diverse networks drive economic...
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Senior women managers’ transition to entrepreneurship: Leveraging embedded career capital
Terjesen, Siri A. - 2005
Purpose – This paper aims to explore the phenomenon of senior women managers leaving corporate organisations to start their own companies. Women's advancement to senior management roles is facilitated by the acquisition of human capital and social capital. Female ex-corporate managers leverage...
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The importance of gestation process dynamics
Gordon, Scott R. - 2010
Principal Topic In this paper we seek to highlight the important intermediate role that the gestation process plays in entrepreneurship by examining its key antecedents and its consequences for new venture emergence. In doing so we take a behavioural perspective and argue that it is not only...
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