INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS AND GROUP PROCESSES Going Green to Be Seen: Status, Reputation, and Conspicuous Conservation Vladas Griskevicius Joshua M. Tybur University of Minnesota University of New Mexico Bram Van den Bergh Rotterdam School of Management Why do people purchase proenvironmental “green” products? We argue that buying such products can be construed as altruistic, since green products often cost more and are of lower quality than their conventional counterparts, but
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management as well as two of the leading academic journals in the discipline, particularly a bibliometric study of the contents of the ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering (JME), as a case study of the CEM refereed journals. The JME’s contents were investigated from its onset in 1985 until 2002. The results of the analysis show that 70% of the published papers focused on four main subjects: management and organization of the firm, project management, industry structure and environment, and management
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Research……………………………………………………………………………33 The Data…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………33 2 Foreign Direct Investment and Country Risk The Concept Model and Hypothesis…………………………………………………………………………33 The Empirical Estimation…………………………………………………………………………………………35 The Analysis of
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THE ECONOMIC RECORD, VOL. 81, NO. 255, AUGUST, 2005, S2–S21 Economics of Social Capital∗ PARTHA DASGUPTA Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK The literature on the idea of ‘social capital’ is now enormous. Offering an alternative to impersonal markets and coercive states, the communitarian institutions built around social capital have looked attractive to scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The literature in consequence has a warm glow to
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OVERVIEW ON THE THEORY OF RECRUITMENT PROCESS AND THE USE OF SELECTION TOOLS November 2015 PETER HORVATH CASS BUSINESS SCHOOL – MEMBASTUDENT NUMBER: 150000247 | Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 The Focus of this Paper 3 Recruitment Process 3 Selection Tools 6 Recommendations for My Firm 7 References 8 Executive Summary Human capital is a potential source of firms’ competitive advantage. To capitalize on this, firms must understand the structure
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addition, the authors would like to thank Drs. Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr., and Robert Briggs, Editor, Special Issue of JMIS, and the three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and valuable suggestions for revising the paper. 1 An Information Systems Security Risk Assessment Model under Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions ABSTRACT: This study develops an alternative methodology for the risk analysis of information systems security (ISS), an evidential reasoning approach under
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M A G A Z I N E FA L L 2 0 0 2 Volume 20 Number 2 SPANNING THE GLOBE Duke Leads the Way in International Law Teaching and Scholarship inside plus Duke admits smaller, exceptionally well-qualified class Duke’s Global Capital Markets Center to launch new Directors’ Education Institute from the dean Dear Alumni and Friends, It is not possible, these days, for a top law school to be anything other than an international one. At Duke Law, we no longer think of
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............................................... 4 3. Negotiation before the final conference ................................... 11 4. Negotiation: The Bretton Woods Conference ........................... 15 5. Conclusion: Later changes and full analysis ............................. 19 6. Primary Sources and Bibliography ............................................ 22 7. Annexes: .................................................................................... 26 FEUC – Negociação Internacional
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Abstract Literature relating to business culture focuses on a regional view rather than a situational one. Business habits are considered to be driven by local culture. The researcher was motivated to question this assumption by considering the attitudes of business managers in starkly different environments but similar business constraints. Does a mid-sized business in USA think very differently from a mid-sized business in a developing country? Are the process and human resource management
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APRIL 1999 Comparative Analysis of Master–Slave Latches and Flip-Flops for High-Performance and Low-Power Systems Vladimir Stojanovic and Vojin G. Oklobdzija, Fellow, IEEE Abstract—In this paper, we propose a set of rules for consistent estimation of the real performance and power features of the flip-flop and master–slave latch structures. A new simulation and optimization approach is presented, targeting both highperformance and power budget issues. The analysis approach reveals the sources
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