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Purpose. This paper aims to investigate management auditing, a thorough examination of an organization and the management in place, through an empirical research to gather data about how management audits are perceived and implemented among Geneva’s (Switzerland) business community. The board of directors is in charge of a corporation’s overall supervision. The internal auditing...

This article aims to respond to the following question: Under wh at circumstances does organizational commitment fail to protect individuals from ill - being in difficult work situations? A qualitative study was conducted to discover an answer. The life stories of ten executives were examined. The findings of t his exploratory research study show that o rganizational...

Past research provides evidence that organizational identification is a key factor predicting employees’ behaviours during mergers and acquisitions. In particular, recent studies demonstrate that members of the subordinate merger partner, in contrast to the dominant group, often find it difficult to transfer their identification to the post-merger organization. To understand this...

Until recently, most research in International Business (IB) has focused on the internationalization strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs) from developed countries when entering emerging markets. Moreover, research on emerging market multinationals (EM - MNCs) has focused more on manufacturing or high - tech companies rather than service providers. This paper compares...

This paper provides an overview of the Retrieving Diverse Social Images task that is organized as part of the Medi- aEval 2014 Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evalua- tion. The task addresses the problem of result diversification in the context of social photo retrieval. We present the task challenges, the proposed data set and ground truth, the re- quired participant runs and...

Since organizational scholars argue that re source scarcity accentuates dualities’ oppositional and relational nature, we need to know more about whether and how resource - scarce firms can manage paradox . Based on a longitudinal study of 107 Central European turnaround initiatives, we find empirical evidence that even resource - scarce organizations can successfully...

When risk mitigation fails, a company is often faced with one or more crisis events. Crisis can take many forms. A type of crisis, a smoldering crisis, can continue gaining momentum over time, slowly eroding the future success of an organization. This paper uses archival case analysis to look at how two airlines — Southwest Airlines and US Airways — responded to the smoldering...

This paper examines the ratings of 12 influential wine critics on the Bordeaux en primeur market over the vintages 2003 – 2012. We hypothesize that wine experts differ significantly in their rating approach and in fl uence on prices. We fi nd that European critics are less transparent and in general more severe in their scoring than their American counterparts. Experts also appear to...

C o mo se difunden las innovaciones en gestión de recursos humanos (GRH) entre empresas es un tema de gran interés y actualidad; al que , sin embargo, la literatura académica ha prestado relativamente poca atención. El presente artículo utiliza metodología de redes sociales para analizar empíricamente el posible impacto positivo de la participación en...