Utilizing three student (Study 1) and non-student samples (Study 2), we examined cultural differences in workplace choice for North Americans, Germans, and Japanese. We focused on the desire for control as a potential mediator (i.e., the underlying mechanism) to explain cultural differences in this important life decision. Given culturally divergent embodiments of independent vs. interdependent...

• List several different methods of business combination. • State the difference between a hostile versus friendly acquisition. • List the two Federal Government agencies responsible for regulating antitrust issues in acquisitions. • Explain why growth alone is not sufficient reason to undertake an acquisition. • List and briefly describe the two methods of accounting for an acquisition. • List...

This paper proposes to analyze the roles of two transnational institutions (a Pentecostal church and a government agency for foreign relations) in ethnic enterprise. The studied group is made up of Brazilian immigrants who set up in business with money saved as workers in the American state of Massachusetts in informal economy niches. The institutions that help understand this process, which th...

Background Evidence-informed deliberative processes (EDPs) were recently introduced to guide health technology assessment (HTA) agencies to improve their processes towards more legitimate decision-making. The EDP framework provides guidance that covers the HTA process, ie, contextual factors, installation of an appraisal committee, selecting health technologies and criteria, assessment, a...

A survey of 887 employees in a German government agency assessed the antecedents and consequences of idiosyncratic arrangements individual workers negotiated with their supervisors. Work arrangements promoting the individualization of employment conditions, such as part-time work and telecommuting, were positively related to the negotiation of idiosyncratic deals ("i-deals"). Worker personal in...

Energy-extraction results in significant disturbance to rangelands in Wyoming and other western US states. Although reclamation is required by law, US General Accounting Office reports from 1999 and 2005 are clear that affected government agencies have--over much of the past decade--had difficulty accomplishing mandated environmental monitoring of extraction-related disturbance. We evaluated tw...