Strategy Models for Firm Performance Enhancement eJournal最新文献

Prosocial Incentives Change Willingness to Compete in Work Tasks: The Role of Gender and Performance 亲社会激励改变工作任务中的竞争意愿:性别和绩效的作用

Strategy Models for Firm Performance Enhancement eJournal Pub Date : 2021-10-26 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3950538

Benji King

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The Growth Tesseract: A Scientific View of Firms’ Growth Opportunities 成长方块:企业成长机会的科学观点

Strategy Models for Firm Performance Enhancement eJournal Pub Date : 2021-10-12 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3051501

Staffan Canback

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Optimal Team Formation Under Asymmetric Information 信息不对称条件下的最优队形

Strategy Models for Firm Performance Enhancement eJournal Pub Date : 2021-07-12 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3606281

Ashwin Kambhampati, C. Segura-Rodríguez

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Do Firms Respond to Auditors’ Red Flags? Evidence from the Expanded Audit Report 公司会对审计师的警告做出回应吗?扩大审计报告的证据

Strategy Models for Firm Performance Enhancement eJournal Pub Date : 2020-06-24 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3634479

I. Andreicovici, Anne Jeny, Daphne Lui

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Product Traceability and Warranty Cost Sharing in Supply Chains 供应链中的产品可追溯性和保修成本分担

Strategy Models for Firm Performance Enhancement eJournal Pub Date : 2020-05-14 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3600650

Fangruo Chen, Lijian Lu, Ruxian Wang, Hanqin Zhang

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Knowledge-Based Capital and Productivity Divergence 知识资本与生产力分化

Strategy Models for Firm Performance Enhancement eJournal Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3603936

Marie Le Mouel, Alexander Schiersch

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Application of (AHP) Method in Ranking the Factors Affecting the Formation of Organizational Behavior of Employees AHP方法在影响员工组织行为形成因素排序中的应用

Strategy Models for Firm Performance Enhancement eJournal Pub Date : 2020-04-10 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3572794

H. Eghbali, Masoud Ahmadvand

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Caracterización de la inteligencia colectiva en un ecosistema empresarial (The Collective Intelligence in a Business Ecosystem) 商业生态系统中的集体智能特征(商业生态系统中的集体智能)

Strategy Models for Firm Performance Enhancement eJournal Pub Date : 2019-10-21 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3542446

Claudia Eugenia Toca Torres

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Birds of a Feather . . . Enforce Social Norms? Interactions Among Culture, Norms, and Strategy 物以类聚……加强社会规范?文化、规范和战略之间的相互作用

Strategy Models for Firm Performance Enhancement eJournal Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3463405

Hongyi Li, E. Van den Steen

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The Success of Business Forecasting: Comparisons Across Industries 商业预测的成功:跨行业的比较

Strategy Models for Firm Performance Enhancement eJournal Pub Date : 2019-09-19 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3456803

Tobias F. Rötheli

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