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The leadership disease...and its potential cures
(Elsevier, 2014)Leadership development and executive education have taken on increased prominence in recent years. The natural tendency is to approach the subject of leadership as a hierarchically-based process that is focused on higher-level ... -
Leadership is like fine wine: It is meant to be shared, globally
(Elsevier, 2014)The overwhelming majority of leadership theory and research has been developed in North America. Having said that, it cannot be overstated that we are living in an ever more tightly connected global economy. Appropriately, ... -
Emerging market exposures and the predictability of hedge fund returns
(Wiley, 2014)We examine emerging market and global macro hedge funds and find a significant positive relation between hedge funds' future returns and their exposure to both emerging market equities and emerging market currencies. We ... -
Drug prescription behavior and decision support systems
(Elsevier, 2014-01)Adverse drug events plague the outcomes of health care services. In this research, we propose a clinical learning model that incorporates the use of a decision support system (DSS) in drug prescriptions to improve physicians' ... -
The appreciative democratic voice of DEA: a case of faculty academic performance evaluation
(Elsevier, 2014-03)Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is in fact more than just being an instrument for measuring the relative efficiencies of a group of decision making units (DMU). DEA models are also means of expressing appreciative democratic ... -
Outpatient appointment scheduling in presence of seasonal walk-ins
(Springer Nature, 2014-04)This study investigates appointment systems (AS), as combinations of access rules and appointment-scheduling rules, explicitly designed for dealing with walk-in seasonality. In terms of 'access rules', strategies are tested ... -
Consideration for future consequences as an antecedent of transformational leadership behavior: The moderating effects of perceived dynamic work environment
(Elsevier, 2014-04-02)Based on construal level theory and trait activation theory, we examined the effect of consideration of future consequences (CFC) on transformational leadership behavior and leadership effectiveness, as well as the potential ... -
How can recessions be brought to an end? Effects of macroeconomic policy actions on durations of recession
(Elsevier, 2014-05)This paper analyzes how effective macroeconomic policy actions are in ending recessions. We also investigate which structural factors help the country to experience shorter recessions. We implement survival regression ... -
Poverty and intersectionality: a multidimensional look into the lives of the impoverished
(Sage, 2014-06)Subsistence consumers are disadvantaged and marginalized on many levels, including financial deprivation, poor health, lack of access to resources, and social stigmatization. The disadvantages experienced by subsistence ... -
Make it your own: how process valence and self-construal affect evaluation of self-made products
(Wiley, 2014-06)Self-production, participation of consumers in the production process of products for their own consumption, leads to consumers' enhanced evaluations of the self-made products. Three experimental studies investigate how ... -
Consumer attitude metrics for guiding marketing mix decisions
(Informs, 2014-08)Marketing managers often use consumer attitude metrics such as awareness, consideration, and preference as performance indicators because they represent their brand's health and are readily connected to marketing activity. ... -
The real estate and credit bubble: evidence from Spain
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2014-08)We analyze the determinants of real estate and credit bubbles using a unique borrower-lender matched dataset on mortgage loans in Spain. The dataset contain real estate credit and price conditions (loan principal and spread, ... -
A theory of iterative choice in lists
(Elsevier, 2014-08)In a list, alternatives appear according to an order and the decision maker follows this order to evaluate alternatives. He records the first alternative as the initial survivor and then at every stage, he compares the ... -
Economic models of sponsored content in wireless networks with uncertain demand
(Wiley, 2014-09-09)This chapter evaluates an approach whereby the service provider can tap into an alternative source of revenue, originating from sales of advertisements or products and channelled by the content provider in the form of ... -
Macroeconomic risk and hedge fund returns
(Elsevier, 2014-10)This paper estimates hedge fund and mutual fund exposure to newly proposed measures of macroeconomic risk that are interpreted as measures of economic uncertainty. We find that the resulting uncertainty betas explain a ... -
How to make global cities: information communication technologies and macro-level variables
(Elsevier, 2014-11)Increasing in the ranks among the global cities is a top priority not only for the city officials but also for the central governments. With the prevalent use of the information and communication technologies (ICTs), local ... -
Consumer response to product construction: the role of haptic stimulation
(Wiley, 2014-11)This study investigates how consumers are affected by haptic information, that is, the information acquired through the sense of touch, when they take part in the construction or assembly of a product. In order to create ... -
A model of sustainable distributed service delivery in organizations with compassion-based missions
(Sage, 2014-11)This article examines the potential for offering sustainable compassion-based service. Organizations with compassion-based service missions face difficult challenges in addressing acute client needs with limited resources. ... -
How online consumer segments differ in long-term marketing effectiveness
(Elsevier, 2014-11)Online commerce gives companies not only a growing global sales platform, but also powerful consumers enjoying 24/7 availability, choice proliferation and the power to opt in and out permission-based communication. ... -
Poverty in consumer culture: towards a transformative social representation
(2014-12)In this article, we consider the representations of poverty within consumer culture. We focus on four main themes – social exclusion, vulnerability, pleasure and contentment – that capture some of the associations that ...
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