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Investing in Green Mutual Funds: Determining the Environmental Screens Applied in Actively Managed Funds

Kelly, Brian V. - 2010

Managers of environmentally focused mutual funds hold a leadership position with investors, and have an ethical responsibility to explain the environmental screens. The public filings of environmentally focused, actively managed funds were reviewed to determine what non-financial screening...

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Rethinking 'business is business' : a criticalist perspective on teaching business ethics

Fallon, Wayne; Australian Association for Professional … - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2005

This paper reports on a study into student perceptions of a Socratic approach to teaching business ethics. The paper lays out a criticalist proposition that there is a discourse of ?ethics-in-business? in which ethics are, pragmatically, subsumed by a more strategic economics focus to business...

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Measurement and structural properties of organizational codes of ethics in private and public Sweden

Svensson, Goran; Wood, Greg; Callaghan, Michael - 2010

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the measurement and structural properties in a model of organizational codes of ethics (OCE) in Sweden. Design/methodology/approach – The measurement and structural properties of four OCE constructs (i.e. surveillance/training, internal...

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Interpretations of corruption in intercultural bargaining

Zutshi, Ambika; Creed, Andrew; Rudolph, Heiko E.R. - 2010

There is a fine line in business negotiations between being perceived as corrupt and having proper engagement with the natural tension and excitement of the business bargaining process. Combining literature review and experiential observation we provide a framework that will assist global...

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Are self-evaluations helpful or harmful when employees are unaware of their marginal contribution to firm welfare?

Kachelmeier, Steven J. (contributor); … - 2010

This study examines whether eliciting self-evaluations increases or decreases the propensity of a productive agent to retaliate against an employer for paying compensation that the agent perceives to be too low for the work performed. Specifically, I consider a setting in which a principal knows...

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The Geography of New Manufacturing Technology: Implications for the Nonmetropolitan South.

McGranahan, David A. - 1999

Despite the growth in services. manufacturing remains an essential part of the nonmetropolitan South's economy, responsible for 25 percent of total personal earnings. But loweducation nonmetropolitan areas, which gained more than their share of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s and 1980s, lost...

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Relationships among demographic variables, organizational culture, interpersonal self-efficacy and perceived job performance.

Vasquez-Colina, Maria D. - 2005

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CHARACTERISTICS FOR SUCCESS: PREDICTING INTERVENTION EFFECTIVENESS WITH THE JOB CHARACTERISTICS MODEL

Weaver, Sallie - 2008

identity, autonomy, and feedback) proposed by Hackman-Oldham (1974) at the team level by investigating whether the model … variables are related to the effectiveness of a motivationally-based team-level productivity enhancement intervention. Previous … literature by exploring the effects of the characteristics at the team level, as well as the moderating effect of the team …

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Summary Brief: Macro Influences on the Adoption of Sales Force Automation (SFA) Technology

Borders, Aberdeen Leila; Widmier, Scott; Hair, Joe - 2009

There is great interest in the application of technological solutions driven by a thriving CRM industry. It has been shown the more effective the implementation of SFA, the greater its impact on increased sales performance. Previous research on SFA adoption has focused on the individual as the...

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An Empirical Study of Kirkpatrick’s Evaluation Model in the Hospitality Industry

Chang, Ya-Hui Elegance - 2010

This study examined Kirkpatrick’s training evaluation model (Kirkpatrick & Kirkpatrick, 2006) by assessing a sales training program conducted at an organization in the hospitality industry. The study assessed the employees’ training outcomes of knowledge and skills, job performance, and the...

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