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The Personality of MBA's Who Reach General Management Early
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The Process of Areawide Health Services Planning: A Normative Definition
A recent study of areawide health planning organization suggests that the widely publicized disillusionment with the planning concept is due in large part to the absence of a well-defined and proven planning process. With the assistance of health…
The Use Of The Multitrait-multimethod Matrix For Trait Development: Cluster Analysis And Nonmetric Scaling Alternatives
Past recommendations for analysis of the multitrait-multimethod matrix have emphasized validation rather than traits and measures development. This paper emphasizes the latter, and a review of existing approaches suggests that each has…
Theories Of Attitude Structure And Change
The study of attitudes is well entrenched in marketing theory and practice. The acceptance by theorists is evident in the pivotal role that the concept of attitude plays in the major descriptive models of consumer behavior (Engel, Kollat and…
Token Economies and Experimental Economics: Two Controlled Experiments in the Theory of Individual Consumer Demand
Abstract not available.
A Variable Nurse Staffing Model
When the staffing load on several separate work centers is variable but unpredictable i n advance, a variable staffing policy may be used as a means of increasing manpower efficiency. A variable staffing policy is one which provides for staffing…
Gold Mining Shares, Gold, And The Stock Market
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Building Sustainable Organizations: The Human Factor
Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human…
Carrots or Sticks? Improving Social and Environmental Compliance at Suppliers Through Penalties and Incentives
Forthcoming in Production and Operations Management.
This paper explores the relationship between supplier penalties and incentives and performance.
Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on…
A Theory of Experience Effects
How does the experience of a financial crisis and other macroeconomic shocks alter the dynamics of financial markets? Recent evidence suggests that individuals overweight personal experiences of macroeconomic shocks when forming beliefs about…