infonet-economy

The state governance system seems to be incapable to address sufficiently global public goods problems or to regulate global business so that the public interest is served. At the same time, international governmental organizations are unable to fill the governance gap while nongovernmental organizations(NGOs) criticize the behavior of business firms along their supply chains....

We empirically investigate how performance expectations affect top manager replacements. We do so by approximating performance expectations based on professional bookmaker betting odds in professional soccer, thus capturing the effect on the dismissal probability of team coaches. Controlling for team performance and unobserved team heterogeneity, we show that a one-standard-deviation...

Given the relevance and challenges of social media marketing communications, we conducted a study of corporate blogs from Fortune Global 500 companies in order to examine which social media communication metrics, i.e., creators, content and interactions, have the greatest impact on the growth and size of an audience. This article gives an overview of the most important results and...

BACKGROUND: Strong evidence exists associating job satisfaction and risk of burnout with productivity, efficiency, and creativity in many organizations. However no data are available assessing chairs of surgery. This study assessed job satisfaction and risk for burnout of surgical chairs from Europe and North America and identified contributing factors.
METHODS: A survey among...