Dynamics of the strategic group membership-performance linkage in rapidly changing environments

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The performance consequences of strategic group membership in a specific setting is examined to find out whether the performance differences exist among strategic groups and whether these differences are stable over a period of time in a population of firms that have undergone continuous and radical environmental transformations. The Industrial Organization Theory (IOT), the Resource-Based View of the Firm (RBVF) and MCLUST are used to analyze the performance consequences of strategic group membership over time.

Models, Analysis, Bureaucracy, Organizational change, Industrial organization, Organization theory

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Performance, satisfaction, and turnover in call centers. The effects of stress and optimism

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A study was conducted to investigate the effects of optimism on the relationship between stress and performance, satisfaction and turnover in a call center environment. Results reveal higher levels of work stress and lower turnover among the pessimists and lower level of work stress and work conflicts among the optimists.

Influence, Surveys, Work environment, Job stress, Call centers, Call centres

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The emergence of private ownership in China

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An institutional theoretical framework is developed to explain the ways in which economic reform precipitated institutional change in order to understand the ways in which private ownership emerged in China. The forces within the economy that affect the ownership structures of new firms are studied.

China, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Economic aspects, Forecasts and trends, Private companies, Market trend/market analysis, Economic reform

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