Economics
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Why Total Quality Management Programs Do Not Persist: The Role of Management Quality and...
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- 01/19/2009
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Top-down total quality management (TQM) programs often fail to create deep and sustained change in organizations. They become a fad soon replaced by another fad. Failure to institutionalize TQM can be attributed to a gap between top management's rhetoric about their intentions for TQM and the reality of implementation in various subunits of the organization. The gap varies from subunit to subunit due to the quality of management in each. By quality of management is meant the capacity of senior team to (1) develop commitment to the new TQM direction and behave and make decisions that are consistent with it, (2) develop the cross-functional mechanisms, leadership skills, and team culture needed for TQM implementation, and (3) create a climate of open dialogues about progress in the TQM transformation that will enable learning and further change. -
Why is there a Separation between Distance Selling in EU Law and the Tourism Industry?
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- 12/28/2010
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Twelve years have passed since the partial exclusion of most tourist services
from the Distance Selling Directive (art. 3 para. 2). The application of a particular right
of withdrawal to contracts negotiated away from business premises for the provision of
these services was considered inappropriate. Out of this consumer protection will be
rather weaker than in other distance contracts. -
What is the Best Distribution for Pollution Abatement Efforts?...
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- 12/28/2010
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TheWater Framework Directive (WFD) hasmobilized economic theory in order
to encourage E.U. Member States to reach desirable environmental water pollution levels by
conciliating economic and ecological interests. For this purpose, a stringent standard (“good
status”) has been set. Nevertheless it will be possible to relax this standard if it appears. -
What Determines Wage Differentials Across the EU?
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- 12/22/2010
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We analyse determinants of the wage differentials observed between
thirteen European countries using the European Community Household Panel
(ECHP). The empirical decomposition is based on a proportional hazards model.
The approach based on rank invariant estimators is borrowed from the literature on
failure time data and has been adapted by Donald et al. (Rev Econ Stud 67:609–633,
2000) to analyse differences in wage distributions. -
Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups: an Agenda for New Research
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- 12/21/2010
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In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being (SWB) of the individual
depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the
individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables
consists of the characteristics of the individuals belonging to his reference group. The
vast literature about happiness, quality of life, and well-being informs us extensively
about the effects of objective variables.