Knowledge sharing has become an important practice in the era of knowledge economy. This paper concerns the management of contributor performance in social knowledge-sharing communities. Based on ability-motivation-opportunity theory, we propose a hidden Markov model to characterize the change...

In the last decade, leaders' behaviour in performance management has been gaining increasing attention, arguing that it is beneficial in terms of improved employee attitudes, behaviour, and performance in the public sector. However, empirical support for such claim is still scant. Given the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant talent management challenges including (a) hiring freezes and layoffs; (b) salary freezes, canceled bonuses, and pay reductions; (c) how work is done (i.e., teleworking); and (d) increased employee stress and burnout. Also, COVID-19 has made it...

Synchrony of transportation planning with revealed public preferences and expectations has traditionally been difficult to achieve. In other domains, such as manufacturing and design, frameworks have been developed using data-driven analytic processes to extract customer preferences and...

The purpose of this research is to verify interdependencies among service innovation, structural autonomy, performance measurement systems, and organizational outcomes in a new organizational context. The relationships between these variables that structure organizational design have been...

A high organizational complexity above the cognitive limits of employees and management can contribute to a business performing sub-standardly in comparison to its competitors. As businesses can grow over time into a state of high complexity, an active approach to complexity management has to be...

Managerial competencies and performance appraisal practices are often ignored when considering the performance of Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Yet, these competencies and practices are fundamental for the survival of the SMEs. SMEs are critical for economic growth and job creation in many...

This paper presents a novel methodology to measure international managerial skill, which has not been directly measured in the specialized management quality surveys. The international managerial quality variable captures the manager’s organizational capital contribution to improve production...

Wholesale and retail sector companies improve their financial structure to be more resistant to economic fluctuations. Also, they are complying with instabilities in the economy where they could improve their activities and use their capital more efficiently to save costs and improve their...

A series of oxygen-functionalized activated carbon (AC) supported vanadia catalysts were first synthesized for the low-temperature selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx with NH3 via wet oxidation method using ammonium persulfate ((NH4)2S2O8) as an oxidant. The physicochemical properties of...

Choice of iron sources is crucial to the improved electrochemical performances of LiMnPO 4 with poor electronic and ionic conductivity. Here, LiMn 0.8 Fe 0.2 PO 4 /C composites were synthesized through a rheological phase-assisted solid-state method using MnO and LiH 2 PO 4 as raw materials....

Hospitality industry operates their businesses in an increasingly changeable and unpredictable environment, where competition assumes a global scale; that requires the generation of new ideas, tools and methods. In this paper we propose a model to help hotels measure and evaluate the performance...

With the widespread use of digital technologies such as big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence in higher education, how to establish a scientific and systematic evaluation system to turn the traditional classroom with the one-way transmission of knowledge into an interactive space...

Human resource management (HRM) practices along with appropriate leadership have a paramount role in enhancing employees' performance. Even though there was much literature on the subject of HRM and leadership, there were still some unanswered questions about the set of HR practices that most...

Recent research on management control and performance measurement and management (PMM) points towards a concern to provide suitable systems in nonprofit organizations (NPOs). However, few attempts have been made to understand these organizations and how their peculiarities influence this...

Recently, there has been increasing pressure to change current performance measurement and management systems from control systems to those that support learning and continuous improvement. This change requires a specific corporate culture that supports the effective operation of performance...

Stewardship theory provides an interesting alternative to agency theory, which in the recent New Public Management era supported the introduction of rigorous performance management systems based on generalized mistrust in and control of public employees. However, we lack empirical validation of...

1. Benchmarking -- 2. An Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis -- 3. Probability Theory -- 4. Stochastic Data Envelopment Analysis -- 5. Stochastic Network Data Envelopment Analysis -- 6. Stochastic Scale Elasticity.