Publications

A few decades ago, several performance measurement systems (PMSs) were developed. These systems have been rapidly adopted by many organizations. The reason for this fast integration was the publication of numerous success stories and a strong belief in the power of these systems to increase organizational profit. Although many success stories were revealed, failures were bound to follow. To improve the effectiveness of the PMSs the concept of ...

© 2018, The Author(s) 2018. Public sector reforms aimed at ‘making the managers manage’ granted public managers autonomy and tried to depoliticize the administration. There is substantial variation in the degree of direct politicization and in managerial autonomy. This article tests four sets of hypotheses to explain variation in perceptions of direct politicization and managerial autonomy in European public sectors. Data from a new survey in 15 ...

The current study examined the mediating effect of presenteeism and moderating effect of managerial support in the relation between workaholism and work-family conflict. A sample of 1065 white-collar employees from an Italian company filled in an online survey and hypotheses were tested using a bootstrapping procedure. Results showed that presenteeism mediated the association between workaholism and work-family conflict. Moreover, the mediating ...

By designing remuneration schemes based on a bonus rewarding specific firm-level outcomes, the owners/shareholders of a firm can manipulate the behavior of their managers. In practice, different bonus anchors take center stage: some are profit-based, others use sales as the key yardstick and still different ones focus on relative performance vis-à-vis a peer group. In this paper, we focus on the impact of remuneration schemes on firm-level ...

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For obtaining benefits from using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education sector, technical and management aspects related to the use of ICT are needed. This literature review article focuses on assessing managerial aspects that influence deployment of e-learning technologies. Provision of details in each managerial dimension attempted to cover description of their significance, and the extent to which ...

In a recent issue of this journal, Ho and Huang (2017) present an interesting and inspiring agency based model on corporate donations, taking into consideration the level of managerial altruism and the impact of donations on demand. However, a number of crucial assumptions of their basic model are open for criticism. They relate to the specification of demand, of profits, and of managerial utility. This is not to say that no insights can be ...

A differentiatedCournot duopoly is consideredwhere firm owners delegate the output decision to a manager, who is rewarded on the basis of his performance. If this performance is measured in terms of (i) pure profits, (ii) a combination of profits and sales, (iii) a combination of profits andmarket share or (iv) relative profits, the latter option strictly dominates the others if the products are perfect substitutes. Recently it was claimed that ...

© 2018 Social media has become a widely used marketing tool for reaching potential customers. Because of its low cost, social media marketing is especially appealing to customer-to-customer (C2C) sellers. Customers can also benefit from social media marketing by learning about products and by interacting with sellers in real time. However, a seller's marketing microblogs may backfire on her for dominating the social space. Defining the marketing ...

Aims: Identify which of ToyotaU+2019s principles are reported in health care institutions at the organisational level and to identify the type of reported outcomes related to the effectiveness of lean production reported in these studies.Background: No scientific research has been conducted to determine which of ToyotaU+2019s principles are embedded in health care systems. This knowledge is needed to perform targeted adjustments in health ...