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HR professional development: creating the future creators at the University of Michigan Business School
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999)
This article focuses on the development of mid- to senior-level HR professionals through a public program offered at the University of Michigan Business School. We suggest that developing HR professionals requires a theory ...
Which Enterprises (Believe They) Have Soft budgets after Mass Privatization? Evidence from Mongolia
(1997-10-01)
To ascertain the prevalence of soft budgets and to find causes of softness, we surveyed 251 privatized Mongolian enterprises, asking whether state aid was expected when financial difficulties arose. One quarter of the ...
Taxes, Tariffs, and the Global Corporation
(1990-09)
In this paper we develop some simple models of optimal tax and tariff policy in the presence of global corporations that operate in an imperfectly competitive environment. The models emphasize two important differences in ...
Cyclic scheduling to minimize inventory in a batch flow line
(Elsevier, 1994-06-09)
This paper addresses the problem of determining a cyclic schedule for batch production on a flow line. We assume a constant supply of raw materials and a constant demand for all finished goods. Material that has completed ...
Competing Strategies of FDI and Technology Transfer to China: American and Japanese Firms
(1999-01-01)
This is a report based on four field site visits of Sino-foreign joint ventures in China. Two American and two Japanese joint ventures in electronics and auto parts were visited in the Shanghai area in December 1997. The ...
Getting Behind the East-West [German] Wage Differential: Theory and Evidence
(1997-05-01)
Labor markets are the most important mediator of German unification and wages are a central indicator of its progress. Starting from the observation that a wage differential between two workers can arise either because ...
European Union Trade and Investment Flows U-Shaping Industrial Output in Central and Eastern Europe: Theory and Evidence
(1998-04-01)
We undertake an analysis of the evolution of industrial output in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania over the period 1989-1995. We theoretically and empirically model the growth dynamics of EU oriented output within ...