... in crowdsourcing. Therefore, this issue should be explored. Crowd participants can then design appropriate control strategies to avoid the occurrence of some critical risks. China Performance Surveys Outsourcing Risk management Sociotechnical theory Crowdsourcing has gained significant attention...

... A competitive priority model consisting of four latent constructs – low cost, quality, delivery performance, and flexibility – was utilized to construct the analysis. Primary data were collected through a survey of senior executives in the US technical textile companies. Using 202 eligible survey returns...

... for the introduction of VBM in their organisations and assess the stock price performance of the companies that use VMB vs. those that do not. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on a survey of CEOs of a large sample of Canadian companies and examines the relation of a number of explanatory variables...

... to ideas in their workplaces. This paper reports on a pilot survey among managers from diverse organisations. Respondents provide their views about what happens to ideas in their organisations, with comments about the responsiveness of colleagues. It is presumed that how managers engage with ideas...

... drawn from a recent survey of corporate environmental policies and practices, the authors explore the interaction of external and internal factors with regard to policy development, and search for evidence of congruence. They conclude that very often policy formulation takes little consideration...

... companies often send expatriate managers to affiliates as corporate representatives and ambassadors. Expatriates Human resource management Surveys Turkey Finding the right people for overseas operations, however, is a difficult task. The difficulty stems from the fact that such positions...

...Binshan Lin; Walton Hinson This paper reports the results of a regional survey of exporting assistance and guidelines. It analyzes four major issues essential to the exporting process. Implications for managers are provided as well. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Advertising Costs Export...

...Phil Eyre; Clive Smallman Having noted the importance of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe, this paper describes the derivation of a competence list for the development of Euromanagement in SMEs. The potential of the model is illustrated with reference to two small scale surveys...

...Ashly Pinnington; Dennis Haslop Reports the results of a UK company survey on the strategic and operational autonomy of team leaders working on new product development(NPD). The data are based on returns from 194 manufacturing companies and were completed by either the director of R&D...

... the context is all‐important, and it may also be that, in addition to social desirability effect, one receives an answer to a different question from the one that it was thought was asked. Surveys have found evidence that the following all tend to be overstated: library card ownership ([ 8 , 9...

... Research Surveys Few texts give attention to the use of open or closed questions in management situations. Neither do training courses. The whole matter is taken for granted, and left to chance. Nevertheless, there are criteria for the kind of question to ask, and experience which is helpful...