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We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...
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The past quarter century has witnessed many developments in the research and practice of managing human resources in the United States. In this article, we briefly describe two major areas in which these developments have been unfolding: strategic human resource management and international...
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This paper is concerned with people management practices in companies in Malaysia. It examines the development of the main practice areas of the management of human resources (HR), the HR management (HRM) function and to what extent locallyowned companies (LOC) are influenced by multinational...
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same European multinational parent firms suggesting that not all multinationals transplant their home productivity … among foreign affiliates is the ability of European multinationals to transport their business model abroad. This paper … examines the conditions under which European multinationals give autonomy to their subsidiaries and delegate authority to them …
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the same European multinational parent firms suggesting that not all multinationals transplant their home productivity … among foreign affiliates is the ability of European multinationals to transport their business model abroad. This paper … examines the conditions under which European multinationals give autonomy to their subsidiaries and delegate authority to them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427605
Taiwan is not part of the group of countries with whom the European Union is negotiating Free Trade Agreements (FTAs … account of recent developments as regards cross-Strait rapprochement. In mid 2010, Taiwan and China signed an Economic … biggest markets in the world. Taiwanese businesses have been active in China for a long time, but predominantly through …
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This paper examines the key elements of the expert interview as a method of data generation. First, its characteristics … are settled in order to classify this specific type of interview within the range of interview - techniques in general … flow of an expert interview including the different phases from prearrangement to data evaluation and especially the …
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This paper examines the key elements of the quantitative content analysis developed by the scientist Philip Mayring as a method of data evaluation. First, the circular research process is presented to explain the application of this method for scientific interviews in student theses. The content...
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The aim of the Panel Study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) is to provide a database which allows analysing the dynamics of welfare benefits receipt after the introduction of the Unemployment Benefits II in Germany in 2005. This entails the take up and ending of benefits receipt as...
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Respondent driven sampling (RDS) is a network sampling technique typically employed for hard-to-reach populations (e.g. drug users, men who have sex with men, people with HIV). Similar to snowball sampling, initial seed respondents recruit additional respondents from their network of friends....
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