822–840 (2010) Published online EarlyView in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/smj.833 Received 18 January 2007; Final revision received 14 November 2009 ARE INDIVIDUALS ENTERING SELF-EMPLOYMENT OVERLY OPTIMISTIC? AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF PLANS AND PROJECTIONS ON NASCENT ENTREPRENEUR EXPECTATIONS GAVIN CASSAR* The Wharton School‚ University of Pennsylvania‚ Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania‚ U.S.A. This research examines the rationality of the expectations of nascent entrepreneurs
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PROMINENT STUDY OF HENRY MINTZBERG AND SOME EMPIRICAL STUDIES UPON THE PRINCIPALS WORK Berrin Burgaz. ABSTRACI ’: The aims of this paper are to present the Managerial Roles Approach which is one of the ways used in analysing managerial work; to offer the results of Henry Mintzberg ’s outstanding study in which he analysed the managerial work by using the descriptive research method and stmctured observation technique; to exhibit same findings of empirical studies carried out in the field of educational
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International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 3 No. 7; April 2012 Evaluation of Employees’ Job Satisfaction and Role of Gender Difference: An Empirical Study at Airline Industry in Iran Sadegh Rast Faculty of Management and Human Resource Development Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 81300‚ Johor‚ Malaysia. Azadeh Tourani Faculty of Management and Human Resource Development Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 81300‚ Johor‚ Malaysia. Abstract This purpose of this study is to determine level of
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Tutor: Juanna Schrøter Joensen Examinator: Örjan Sjöberg The Employment Effect of an Increase in the Swedish Minimum Wage An empirical study of the 2005 wage agreement between SKL and Kommunal Mikolaj Gruszczynski♣ Paula Roth♦ Bachelor’s Thesis‚ Stockholm School of Economics‚ Department of Economics June 16‚ 2010 Abstract This thesis investigates the relationship between a minimum wage increase and change in employment for municipality workers in Sweden between 2003 and 2007. The
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VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE OF CORPORATE STRATEGY: DETERMINANTS AND OUTCOMES An empirical study into the risks and payoffs of communicating corporate strategy Henricus Petrus Theodorus COEBERGH Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Business Administration School of Management University of Bradford 2011 1 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1965029 ABSTRACT VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE OF CORPORATE STRATEGY: DETERMINANTS AND OUTCOMES Keywords: Voluntary disclosure‚ corporate
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Vertical Relationships and Competition in Retail Gasoline Markets: Empirical Evidence from Contract Changes in Southern California By JUSTINE S. HASTINGS* Since the late 1990’s‚ West Coast cities have consistently experienced substantially higher retail gasoline prices than other regions of the country. For example‚ for the rst week of August 1999‚ the price of reformulated gasoline in California was 39.6 cents higher than the average price in Gulf Coast States (about 10 cents of this difference
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Speculative attacks on fixed exchange rate regimes Introduction In my essay I will focus on the problem of speculative attacks on the countries with fixed exchange rate regimes. By definition a speculative attack on a fixed exchange rate is the attempt of currency market participants to force Central Bank to abandon the support of fixed exchange rate regime‚ thus getting profit from the jump in exchange rate of foreign currency. Obviously‚ appreciation of domestic currency as the result from
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Journal of Information Management 30 (2010) 289–300 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect International Journal of Information Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ijinfomgt Understanding customer satisfaction and loyalty: An empirical study of mobile instant messages in China Zhaohua Deng a‚∗ ‚ Yaobin Lu a ‚ Kwok Kee Wei b ‚ Jinlong Zhang a a b School of Management‚ Huazhong University of Science and Technology‚ 1037 Luoyu Road‚ Hongshan District‚ Wuhan‚ China Department of Information
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Organizacija‚ Volume 45 Research papers Number 1‚ January-February 2012 DOI: 10.2478/v10051-012-0002-8 Intercultural Differences in the Purchase and Information Behaviour of Young Consumers Beno Klemenčič1‚ Gabrijel Devetak2‚ Darko Števančec1 1 Business School Murska Sobota‚ Noršinska ulica 13‚ 9000 Murska Sobota‚ Slovenia‚ beno.klemencic@gmail.com; Da01111@gmail.com 2 Faculty of Commercial and Business Sciences‚ Lava 7‚ 3000 Celje‚ Slovenia‚ mandrija@siol.net Pressures in
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Organization Design and Development (MGT- 561) An Empirical Literature Review of Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Michael T. Cook Phone: 518-961-6511 Sage Graduate School Topic: An Empirical Literature Review of Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Introduction Companies get into expansion mode by having a number of business
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