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Cross-cultural development of an abridged job insecurity measure
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-04)
Using four samples from the United States and China, we developed two theoretically based abridged job insecurity (JI) scales to address researcher concerns with the length of the original 57-item scale. These two scales ...
Robust Adaptive Metrics for Deadline Assignment in Distributed Hard Real-Time Systems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-11)
Distributed real-time applications usually consist of several component tasks and must be completed by its end-to-end (E-T-E) deadline. As long as the E-T-E deadline of an application is met, the strategy used for dividing ...
Nigerian Business Practices and Their Interface with Virtue Ethics
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-07)
From Partners to Players: Extending the HR Playing Field
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001)
HR professionals must always be “becoming” or constantly changing and adapting. For the lastdecade, many have argued the business partner role as a complement to traditional HR administrative work. Weargue in this paper ...
Ethics and Ethos: The Buffering and Amplifying Effects of Ethical Behavior and Virtuousness
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-06)
Logical and moral arguments have been made for the organizational importance of ethos or virtuousness, in addition to ethics and responsibility. Research evidence is beginning to provide, empirical support for such normative ...
Allocation of inventive effort in complex product systems
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-06)
This paper examines the allocation of inventive effort in complex product systems. I argue that complex product systems, e.g., personal computers (PCs), are distinguished by functional interaction among several components, ...
Using Control Theory to Achieve Service Level Objectives In Performance Management
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-07)
A widely used approach to achieving service level objectives for a software system (e.g., an email server) is to add a controller that manipulates the target system's tuning parameters. We describe a methodology for designing ...
Path-dependent and path-breaking change: reconfiguring business resources following acquisitions in the U.S. medical sector, 1978–1995
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2000-10)
This paper studies how firms use acquisitions to achieve long-term business reconfiguration. We base the study in a routine-based perspective on business dynamics. We develop and test hypotheses concerning the relative ...
Alliance capability, stock market response, and long-term alliance success: the role of the alliance function
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-08)
This paper addresses two key questions: (1) what factors influence firms' ability to build alliance capability and enjoy greater alliance success, where firm-level alliance success is measured in two ways: (a) abnormal ...
Cross-Level Replication and Extension of Steel and Rentsch's (1995) Longitudinal Absence Findings
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-03)
Absenteeism findings published by Steel and Rentsch (1995) were replicated and extended by correlating attitudinal, personal-demographic, and job stress variables with 34 months of work group absenteeism scores obtained ...