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Review Blues, Carol Gill

Carol Gill

Performance assessments can be a shattering experience, writes Carol Gill, who looks at one way of making them more objective

Collusive Bidding: Lessons From The Fcc Spectrum Auctions, Peter Cramton, Jesse Schwartz

Jesse A. Schwartz

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) spectrum auctions use a simultaneous ascending auction design. Bidders bid on numerous communication licenses simultaneously, with bidding remaining open on all licenses until no bidder is willing to bid higher on any license. With full revelation of bidding information, simultaneous open bidding allows bidders to send messages to their rivals, telling them on which licenses to bid and which to avoid. These strategies can help bidders coordinate a division of the licenses, and enforce the proposed division by directed punishments. We explore the extent that bidders signaled each other with retaliating bids in recent FCC …

Talent Wins, Carol Gill

Carol Gill

Progressive HR Practices can make your business an employer of choice if you can move beyond 'toxic accounting' and 'downsizing' anorexia.

Balancing The Rhetoric And Reality Of Workplace Stress, Carol Gill

Carol Gill

Workplace stress and its causes can pose a dilemma for HR practitioners

Assessing Expectations Of The First Year Student - Asap, Oscar T. Mcknight

Oscar T McKnight Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of Empirical Surveys On Organisational Innovation And Lessons For Future Community Innovation Surveys, Juergen Wengel, Gunter Lay, Annette Nylund, Lars Bager-Sjogren, Paul Stoneman, Nicola Bellini, Andrea Bonaccorsi, Philip Shapira

Philip Shapira

• The scattered experiences with surveys on organisational innovations in Europe had to be collected and summarised, both with respect to methodological and application success factors, in a systematic way.
• These experiences were to form the basis for the development of methodological approaches to examining organisational innovation Community-wide, in a comparable way and taking into account the needs …

Encyclopedia Of Production And Manufacturing Management, Paul Swamidass

Paul Swamidass

The Encyclopedia of Production and Manufacturing Management (1048 pages) is a specialized encyclopedia developed to serve as a basic reference resource for the practitioner, researcher, and student. Because of its specialized focus, this one-volume work is able to cover the entire field of production and manufacturing management. It contains factual and conceptual information for fundamental understanding while serving as a starting point for a deeper researched investigation. The material is state-of-the-art, covering the field of operations management and its exciting recent developments. These developments are covered extensively in this volume.

The downloadable file here has 54 pages which include, the …

Mass Customization And Permission Marketing: An Exploratory Study Of Higher Education, R Bitar, Oscar T. Mcknight, Ronald Paugh

Oscar T McKnight Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Pest Testing Consumer Behavior In Higher Education: A Perceptual Identity Audit With Bite, Oscar T. Mcknight, Ronald Paugh

Oscar T McKnight Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

Redesign Of Library Workflows: Experimental Models For Electronic Resource Description, Karen S. Calhoun

Karen S Calhoun

Explores the transition from a highly centralized model for cataloging to an iterative, collaborative, and broadly distributed model for electronic resource description. The purpose is to alert library managers to some experiments underway and to help them conceptualize new methods for defining, planning, and leading the e-resource description process under moderate to severe time and staffing constraints.