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Radical HRM innovation and competitive advantage: The Moneyball story
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006)
Moneyball (Lewis, 2003), a New York Times bestseller, is a book about baseball. When read through a broader lens, however, Moneyball is also a book about innovation, resistance to change, competitive advantage, achieving ...
Editor's note
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997)
We are very excited about this issue of the Journal. It inaugurates a new alliance among the University of Michigan, John Wiley & Sons, and the Society for Human Resource Management. For 34 years, the University of Michigan ...
Organizational Development: Some Problems and Proposals
(Sage Publications, 1974)
Examination of the rapidly increasing body of OD literature reveals that much of its research is redundant and without refinement or validation, that the term "Organizational Development" itself remains scientifically ...
Enabling Shared Leadership in Hierarchical Groups.
(2013)
Despite the long-recognized importance of informal influence processes in organizations, leadership researchers have traditionally assumed that the designated managers of groups fulfill all of the groups’ leadership ...
Aesthetic and Value Judgment of Neotenous Objects: Cuteness as a Design Factor and its Effects on Product Evaluation.
(2012)
From the perspective of evolutionary psychology, neoteny entails the specific appearance and traits of babies that tend to trigger protective behaviors by adults. Based on Lorenz (1970), five dimensions of neotenic cues ...
Two Sides of Self-Enhancement in Consumer Word-of-Mouth.
(2012)
This dissertation explores self-enhancement in the exchange of consumption information (word-of-mouth) from the perspective of both the source and recipient of this information. The first essay demonstrates that unfavorable ...
Avoiding the Buyer's Fallacy: Consumer Perceptions of Products Before Purchase.
(2013)
Consumers are motivated to find the products that will provide the greatest benefit; however, choosing the right product is not an easy task. Consumers must choose between a myriad of products with varying features despite ...
Norms of Fairness.
(2011)
Chapter 1 introduces the topic of fairness. Chapter 2 measures the beliefs and behavior of third parties who were given the opportunity to sanction or reward individuals who engaged in an economic bargaining game under ...
The Construction of Preference in Engineering Design and Implications for Green Products
(2008)
This dissertation incorporates the construction of preference into engineering design methodology. Currently, engineers view customer preferences as existing a priori, evoking metaphors such as “need-finding.” For some ...
Creativity and Constraint: Exploring the Role of Constraint in the Creative Processes of New Product and Technology Development Teams.
(2011)
Research on creativity in organizations has revealed a variety of important paradoxes; paradoxes that some have argued are fundamental to the nature of creativity itself. One such paradox is the tension between freedom and ...