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Salience Games: Keeping Environmental Issues in (and Out) of the Public Eye
(2016-06)
Businesses and green activists seek to influence public attention to the social impacts of a sector -- they play salience games. An activist allocates funds between campaigning against a polluting industry and other ...
Nigerian Business Practices and Their Interface with Virtue Ethics
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-07)
The potential impact of improvements in contraception on fertility and abortion in western countries
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1987-11)
Survey information on fertility intentions, patterns of contraceptive use, contraceptive failures and abortions is used to develop estimates of unwanted births and of unplanned pregnancies for seven countries, by method ...
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 ...
An analysis of corporate ethical code studies: “Where do we go from here?”
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1994-01)
The dramatic increase in the number of corporate ethical codes over the past 20 years has been attributed to the Watergate scandal and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Ethical codes differ somewhat from profesional codes ...
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 ...