The impact of buyer-supplier relationship and purchasing process on the supply chain performance: a conceptual framework Melody J. Hsiao University of Sydney Sharon Purchase University of Western Australia Shams Rahman University of Sydney ABSTRACT Supply chain performance is a rapidly developing area of research. Many companies are trying to find tools for enhancing performance measures in response to turbulent business markets and for efficiently controlling their business activities
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Evolution and Human Behavior 24 (2003) 153 – 172 Explaining altruistic behavior in humans Herbert Gintisa‚b‚*‚ Samuel Bowlesa‚b‚ Robert Boydc‚ Ernst Fehrd a Santa Fe Institute‚ 1399 Hyde Park Road‚ Santa Fe‚ NM 87501‚ USA Department of Economics‚ University of Massachusetts‚ Amherst‚ MA 01003‚ USA c Department of Anthropology‚ University of California at Los Angeles‚ 405 Hilgard Avenue‚ Box 951361 Los Angeles‚ CA 90095-1361‚ USA d University of Zurich‚ Blumlisalpstrae 10 CH-8006 Zurich
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6 FROM INTENTIONS TO ACTIONS [From: I. Ajzen (1988)‚ Attitudes‚ personality‚ & Behavior. Chicago: Dorsey Press] It*s a long step from saying to doing. Cervantes In the previous chapter we began to unravel the mystery surrounding prediction and explanation of specific action tendencies by turning our attention to behavioral dispositions that correspond precisely to the particular action tendency of interest. Based on this principle of compatibility‚ the present chapter introduces a conceptual
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Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation BERND IRLENBUSCH and GABRIELE K. RUCHALA December 2006 Abstract How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by experimentally investigating team-based compensations with and without bonuses awarded to the highest contributors in teams. A purely team-based compensation scheme induces agents to voluntarily cooperate
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HOFSTEDE: Cultures And Organizations - Software of the Mind Culture as mental programming In Western languages ’culture’ commonly means ’civilization’ or ’refinement of the mind’ and in particular the results of such refinement‚ like education‚ art‚ and literature. This is ’culture in the narrow sense; ’culture one’ Culture as mental software‚ however‚ corresponds to a much broader use of the word which is common among social anthropologists: this is ‘culture two’. In social anthropology‚ ’culture’
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This article was downloaded by: [University of California San Francisco] On: 14 December 2011‚ At: 13:45 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House‚ 37-41 Mortimer Street‚ London W1T 3JH‚ UK The International Journal of Human Resource Management Publication details‚ including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rijh20 Creating value for employees: investment
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GENERAL MACHINIST THEORY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION HIGHER SECONDARY - SECOND YEAR A Publication under Government of Tamilnadu Distribution of Free Textbook Programme ( NOT FOR SALE ) Untouchability is a sin Untouchability is a crime Untouchability is inhuman TAMILNADU TEXTBOOK CORPORATION College Road‚ Chennai - 600 006. © Government of Tamilnadu First Edition - 2011 Chairperson Dr. R. RAJKUMAR‚ Head of the Department ( Mechanical ) AMK Polytechnic College‚ Sembarambakkam
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Telangana People’s Movement: the Unfolding Political Culture G. Haragopal∗ Abstract: The Telangana people’s movement is rooted in a historical context and a developmental model that the Indian rulers have been pursuing. The regional disparities-economic‚ social‚ cultural -are a part of this process. After formation of the linguistic State‚ every economic or developmental mode-be it green revolution or neo-liberal globalization-ended up with sharpening of the differences and widening of the disparities
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i The Effect of Leadership Style on Organizational Commitment among Academic Staff in Yemeni Universities Sameh Adel Abdo Saeed UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA JUNE 2011 ii The Effect of Leadership Style on Organizational Commitment among Academic Staff in Yemeni Universities A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of Master of Business Administration Universiti Utara Malaysia By Sameh Adel Abdo Saeed © Sameh Adel Abdo Saeed‚ June 2011. All Rights Reserved iii PERMISSION
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Working Paper No. 18 Struggle to Acculturate in the Namesake: A Comment on Jhumpa Lahiri ’s Work as Diaspora Literature! Mahesh Bharatkumar Bhatt GJ!jarat Arts &Science College‚ Ellisbridge‚ Ahmedabad Abstract The aim of the paper is to bringforth the wqy in which Jhllmpa Lahiri‚ a Plllitzer prize winner novelist explores the dilemma of name and immigrant ’s sense of identity and belongingness in the novel The Namesake. The paper discllsses the term ’diaspora: and their role in the present
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