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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 proposes to examine whether the workin g conditions of employees are influenced by the sector, public or private, in which they work. More precisely, does the nature of the sector lead to special working conditions? Are working conditions in the public sector really better than in the private sector? This question is studied using a national represent ative data…

Les organisations publiques contemporaines subissent aujourd’hui de nombreuses transformations, parfois lourdes de conséquences pour les agents publics. Le contrat psychologique (modélisation de la relation d’emploi) qui lie l’agent à son organisation en est bousculé. Cet article se propose d’examiner les processus en jeu afin de comprendre ces changements tout en préservant la santé…

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…