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Job Rights in Russian Firms: Endangered or Extinct Institution?
(1998-01-01)
Did the Soviet institution of job rights, guaranteed employment despite individual or firm performance, survive the initial stages of transition in the Russian economy? This paper employs survey data collected in 1992 and ...
Effects of Active Labor Market Programs on the Transition Rate from Unemployment into Regular Jobs in the Slovak Republic
(1998-12-01)
The system of active labor market policies (ALMP) in the Slovak Republic consists to a large extent of the creation of socially purposeful and publicly useful jobs and of retraining of unemployed workers. So far, the ...
Examining the Market Orientation-Performance Relationship: A Context-Specific Study
(Sage Publications, 1998)
This study developed a comprehensive measure of market orientation and examined the market orientation-performance relationship in the health care industry. A survey of 159 hospitals yielded a strong positive relationship ...
Nominal-Real Tradeoffs and the Effects of Monetary Policy: the Romanian Experience
(1998-12-01)
Due to the persistence of relatively soft budget constraints and poor government credibility, the survival strategy of Romanian state-sector firms means eschewing profit maximization in the short run in favor of insider ...
Heuristics for minimizing tool switches when scheduling part types on a flexible machine
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-08)
This article considers a tool loading problem whose objective is to minimize the number of tool switches over time in order to process several parts on a flexible machine. New heuristics are presented and compared. Some ...
The Many Faces of Information Disclosure
(1998-03-01)
We examine the effects of a variety of mandatory information disclosure regimes on the expected revenues of issuing firms and on their endogenously-arising incentives for financial innovation. The main question we ask is: ...
Leading Radical Change in Transition Economies
(1998-06-01)
New managers in central and east European companies were faced with daunting challenges to manage their companies through the transition from central planning to competition and to change their companies radically so that ...