This article examines the compensation of top managers of nonprofits in the United States using panel data from tax returns of the organizations from 1992 to 1996. Studying managers in nonprofits is particularly interesting given the difficulty in measuring performance. The article examines many areas commonly studied in the executive pay (within for-profit firms) literature. It explores pay di...

There is growing recognition that organizational innovations can have a major influence on the geography of economic activity. Yet, little is known about the mechanisms and geographic preconditions underlying their diffusion, particularly at the global level. In this article, we test a series of hypotheses about the conditions under which organizations are most likely to adopt ISO 9000, the int...

Available online xxxx Purpose: This study explored the effects of prison depopulation on local jail violence through a general systems perspective – where an abrupt shift in the processing of offenders had the potential to create ripple effects through other organizations – of the criminal justice system. Methods: In 2011, California passed the Criminal Justice Realignment legislation aimed to ...

The procurement system is a key means through which the client creates preconditions for successful achievement of project specific objectives. Various factors affect the use and development of procurement systems in any construction industry. Thus, it is interesting to discover different systems being used in different instances. This paper present the results of a Panel Data Analysis carried ...

We consider the problem of forecasting multiple time series across multiple cross-sections based solely on the past observations of the series. We propose to use panel vector autoregressive model to capture the inter-dependencies on the past values of the multiple series. We restrict the panel vector autoregressive model to exclude the cross-sectional relationships and propose a method to learn...

Nowadays, noise generated by devices is a serious issue in industry and everyday life, because it may cause health damage to humans. In this research, cubic rigid device casing built of double-panel thin steel walls employed reduce emitted from an enclosed source. Double-panel structure used good sound insulation provides. There exist three main groups reduction methods, i.e. passive, semi-acti...