... United States of America Anyone has the right to serve clients better and/or more cheaply, according to von Mises (2010) . The value of a public asset, such as a toll road, depends on its ability to serve people better than any other means of transportation, and it would be ridiculous to build...

... disclosures Content analysis Risk disclosure index Banks United States of America Canada United Kingdom Germany Japan Italy Risk management systems need to be improved and place a greater emphasis on stress test and scenario analysis (Jorion, 2009 , abstract). Disclosure...

... for more research examining the impact of change on micro‐level issues. H2. Supervisor support for a change initiative is positively related to job involvement. Steven M. Elias can be contacted at: selias@nmsu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 United States of America...

... organization and the key actors therein. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Communication processes Knowledge transfer Learning organizations Organizational change Winemaking United States of America This paper examines changes in the structure and operation of network activities...

.... Service levels Leadership development Citizen participation Learning methods Educational planning and administration United States of America The belief that institutions of higher education are responsible for nurturing the leadership development of students is not a new concept in US...

... Group Publishing Limited 2009 Rhetoric Corporate social responsibility United States of America Organizational legitimation may be understood either as attempts to adapt to prevailing social norms and values or to manipulate the social environments by creating new audiences and new...

..., rigorous data collection, and thoughtful analysis. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Team working Higher education Students Problem solving United States of America Increasingly, the campus is being viewed as a place where students get credentialed and faculty get tenured...

.... To help overcome this difficulty, the paper aims to use the Constitution of the United States of America and the US presidential election to illustrate levels of analysis and multi‐level issues. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses the example of the Constitution of the United States of America...

... highlights an extension of organization theory to reflect contemporary inter‐organizational cooperation. Networking Innovation Organizational theory United States of America Fran Yammarino's article, “Levels of analysis and the US Constitution,” in this issue of the International Journal...

... Organizational analysis Networking Individual development Collectivism United States of America As Fran Yammarino points out in his article “‘We the People…’” (in this issue), confusion surrounds the topic of levels of analysis in the study of management and organization. He examines a real world...

... leadership and to recall how they felt and reacted when the decision was made public. Willona Olison can be contacted at: wolison@depaul.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Decision making Churches Voluntary organizations African Americans United States of America...

... Organizational culture Japan United States of America In the last two decades, there has been a strong interest in the relationship between a person's traits (e.g., age, gender, ethnicity, and national origin) and their attitudes toward the appropriate role of businesses in society. In particular...

... industry conditions, particularly in regulation. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Regulation Organizational profiles Political systems Corporate strategy United States of America The corporate political strategy (CPS) literature has a long history of examining the relationship...

... Contracts United States of America The viability of franchising as an organizational form has been called into question by a number of researchers. On average, franchise organizations deliver poorer product quality (Michael, 2000), are less successful at coordinating marketing strategies (Michael...

... suggest, both foreign and local partners have serious concerns with the right to appoint senior managers given performance implications (Chalos and O'Connor, 2004). General management Joint ventures Management skills Control China United States of America To advance our knowledge about...

... with greater efficiency. Cathleen A. McGrath can be contacted at: cmcgrath@lmu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Social networks Entrepreneurialism Computer software Innovation Knowledge sharing United States of America Several studies have found a correlation between...

... and organizational commitment will be mediated by LMX. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Control Universities United States of America Influence Managers Scholl (1999; 2001) has studied restrictive and promotive control in relation to information pathologies (i.e. a lack...

... Psychological contracts United States of America Australia Motivation (psychology) In the late 1980s and early 1990s, two major waves of downsizing occurred in corporate America, wiping out an estimated 2.5 million jobs (Thurow, 1996). In 2001, the economy experienced another recession, during which...

... of research is problematic given that service firms compromise an increasing percentage of the GDP of many developed countries. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Entrepreneurialism Innovation Nursing homes United States of America One of the earliest applications of real options...