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The Organizational Performance Cycle: Longitudinal Assessment of Key Factors
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-09)
The study's working model postulated static and temporal relationships among goal-setting variables, self-competence, and job performance. Two studies testing the working model are described. Study 1 involved administration ...
Nationbuilding 101: Property, Liberty, and Corporate Governance
(2003-01-01)
Nationbuilders in less developed countries need to understand how Western legal systems with "property" at their center have materially accounted for Western prosperity and liberty, but legal definitions of property are ...
Re-employment Probabilities and Wage Offer Function for Russian Labor Market
(2003-02-01)
This research addresses labor market transformation in Russia. It elaborates on the theory of job search and focuses on the following issues: (1) evaluation of the re-employment probabilities (hazard rates) for different ...
Workplace Violence and Security: Are there Lessons for Peacemaking?
(2003-01-01)
Workplace violence has captured the attention of commentators, employers, and the public at large. Although statistically the incidents of workplace homicide and assault are decreasing, public awareness of the problem has ...
The Life Cycle of Government Ownership
(2003-10-01)
Government ownership may dominate private ownership under government failure. Such dom- inance disappears as product markets grow mature, giving rise to the need for privatization. Buyers' limited wealth imposes a constraint ...
On Types of Trade,Adjustment of Labor and Welfare Gains During Asymmetric Liberalizations
(2003-06-26)
This paper modifies the two-industry, two-country Heckscher-Ohlin model with intermediate goods to decompose trade into its horizontal and vertical intra-industry, as well as inter-industry parts. Acknowledging that ...
Local Protectionism and Regional Specialization: Evidence from China’s Industries
(2003-06-26)
This paper uses a dynamic panel estimation method to investigate the determinants of regional specialization in China’s industries, paying particular attention to local protectionism. Less geographic concentration is found ...
Organizational and leadership virtues and the role of forgiveness
(2003)
The investigation of virtues in organizational life has been neglected. Systematic studies of the development and demonstration of virtue have been all but absent in the organizational sciences. This article highlights ...