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How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills—including creativity, innovation, and technical capability—to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate education policy and practice into a key component...
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This article uses Bourdieu’s theory of practice (BTOP) to understand immigrants’ acculturation. It synthesizes research findings by discussing acculturation as: (1) equalization of immigrants’ and natives’ development (convergence); (2) language and social practices related to economic,...
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY *** Concerns about the market power of large corporations are growing. There are good reasons why … corporations? What role do the domestic and foreign tax systems play in encouraging monopoly power? What does an analysis of the …
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This article compares instruments which IT-firms use to integrate their business consultants - esp. the way monitoring and coordination of activities works. It is based empirically on interviews with consultants and managers of consulting units of a U.S. American firm in Germany, the Swiss...
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This paper is a summary of the findings of analyzing pay and performance for the largest 100 companies from 2009-2011 (3 years). Performance is measured by indexed Total Shareholder Return and indexed Operating Cash Flow Growth. CEO total realized pay is used as the pay metric. The research...
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importance and considerable power within the organization. By adopting a contingency perspective and drawing on the coalitional …-type strategies but not by its degree of internationalization. -- Power/resource dependency theory ; top management team ; finance … function ; chief financial officer ; organizational politics and power ; diversification ; generic business level strategies …
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Management in America has become significantly more data-intensive, yet the economic, organizational, and strategic implications of this shift are poorly understood. Working with the U.S. Census Bureau, we developed measures of how manufacturing firms have used data to guide decision making over...
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