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Marketing for socialism: soviet cosmetics in the 1930s
(Cambridge University Press, 2013-10-28)
This article examines the marketing practices of the Soviet state trust for cosmetics, TeZhe, in the 1930s. Drawing on company records, industry reports, and popular press, we show that TeZhe used an array of marketing ...
Temporal dynamics of trust in ongoing inter-organizational relationships
(Elsevier, 2013-08)
This paper reports the results of a qualitative study undertaken to understand the nature of trust and its consequences
for both suppliers and buyers in short term (relatively new) and long term (older/more mature)
relationships ...
Understanding poverty and promoting poverty alleviation through transformative consumer research
(Elsevier, 2013-08)
Consumer research holds potential for expanding society's understanding of how people experience poverty
and mechanisms for poverty alleviation. Capitalizing on this potential, however, will require more exploration
of ...
The bright and dark sides of leadership: transformational leadership in a non-western context
(Sage, 2013-02)
The present study aims to explore positive and negative leadership behaviours (i.e. transformational and non-transformational leadership) in a non-Western ‘change and transformation’ context through qualitative methods. ...
Optimal transshipments and reassignments under periodic orcyclic holding cost accounting
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
In a centrally managed system, inventory at a retailer can be transshipped to a stocked-out retailer to meet demand. As the inventory at the former retailer may be demanded by future customers of that retailer and transshipment ...
Scenarios as channels of forecast advice
(Elsevier, 2013-05)
Today's business environment provides tougher competition than ever before, stressing the
important role played by information and forecasts in decision-making. The scenario method
has been popular for focused organizational ...
Personal lives? The effects of nonwork behaviors on organizational image
(Sage, 2013-08)
Organizational leaders may respond to employee nonwork behaviors because of the possible
influence on organizational image. We describe a typology of nonwork behaviors and discuss their
potential implications for ...
Role of bank credit on local growth: do politics and crisis matter?
(Elsevier, 2013-04)
Although state-owned banks are expected to promote the growth of less-developed regions, especially in
developing economies, several cross-country studies report that lending by state banks is associated with
the inefficient ...
Antecedents and effects of trust in forecasting advice
(Elsevier, 2013)
Forecasting support systems (FSSs) have little value if users distrust the information and advice that they offer. Two experiments were used to investigate: (i) factors that influence the levels of users’ stated trust in ...
Effects of trend strength and direction on performance and consistency in judgmental exchange rate forecasting
(Elsevier, 2013)
Using real financial data, this study examines the influence of trend direction and strength on judgmental exchange rate forecasting performance and consistency. Participants generated forecasts for each of 20 series. Half ...