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...

This paper proposes and estimates a two-step methodology to measure international managerial skill and calculate its impact on firm performance, using a sample of the biggest private Colombian exporting firms. The first step quantifies the manager’s organizational capital contribution to...

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...

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...

This book explains how to deploy and efficient and robust business strategies using the Hoshin Kanri process. Being able to design and execute a strategy that allows it to achieve the most challenging and sustainable objectives is the heart of any organization’s development. In this book, the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Bolivian economy is gradually recovering from the pandemic-induced recession. La Paz Municipality primary balance has fluctuated near balance as this municipality managed to cushion the decline in hydrocarbon revenues and the pandemic. The DeMPA assessment for the Autonomous Municipal...

This report assesses Niger's debt management capacity and institutions through the application of the Debt Management Performance Assessment (DeMPA) methodology. Revisiting the five core dimension areas of the DEMPA, there are key features that stand out. First, in governance and debt management...

A World Bank mission undertook applied the Debt Management Performance Assessment (DeMPA) methodology to evaluate the government's debt management (DM) capacity and institutions in Cabo Verde during March 28 to April 5, 2022. The assessment covers the legal, institutional, and regulatory...

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...

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....

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...

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...