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Between Consistency and Adaptation: How Middle Managers Shape Compensation System Implementation

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The success of a human resource management (HRM) system or subsystem, such as a compensation system, hinges on its implementation—yet the microfoundations of this process remain underexplored. To address this gap, we conducted two studies. Study 1 surveyed middle managers and employees in six organizations to examine their attributions of ...
Aino Tenhiälä   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Examining purchase intention towards counterfeit luxury goods: The role of social and personality factors [PDF]

open access: yesThe Retail and Marketing Review
This study investigates the influence of social and personality factors on consumers’ attitudes and intentions towards purchasing counterfeit luxury goods in an emerging market context.
Prof Nicole Cunningham
doaj   +1 more source

The relationship between luxury consumption and brand coolness: Analyzing the motives behind luxury consumption

open access: yes, 2023
Esta tese visa explorar a relação entre brand coolness e o consumo de luxo, no contexto da moda. Neste sentido, analisámos as perceções dos consumidores em dois contextos distintos: online e offline. Um dos principais objetivos, é contribuir para o avanço do conhecimento teórico e prático sobre os tópicos acima mencionados.
openaire   +2 more sources

Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The conspicuous consumption of luxurious goods in everyday life of affluent women of the Sanandaj city [PDF]

open access: yesTaḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān
The main purpose of this research is to do a qualitative study with grounded theory on how a specific kind of femininity is constructed through the consumption of luxurious goods. To this end, everyday consuming activities of wealthy women in the city of
J. Mohamadi, SH. Binandeh
doaj   +1 more source

Healing Beams: Radiation and Radiotherapy in Novels, Poems, Music, Film, Painting

open access: yesJournal of Medical Radiation Sciences, EarlyView.
Radiation and radiotherapy are perceived by patients and the general public as mysterious, dangerous and healing. The image of radiation and radiotherapy can be analysed by studying novels, poems, music, film and painting. Our paper reviews how radiation and radiotherapy are perceived by patients, the general public, as reflected in various art genres.
Ad A. Kaptein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“All the good and nothing less”: Consumption of Luxury Goods among the bottom of the pyramid

open access: yesRevista Sociedade, Contabilidade e Gestão, 2013
The Brazilian middle class has undergone significant growth in recent years accounting for 52% of the population. Precisely because of this phenomenon, we became interested in this research that is focused on women living in Rio de Janeiro.
Danielle Soutilha de Souza   +2 more
doaj  

Characteristics and Trends of Luxury Commerce in Sao Paulo (Brazil)

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes, 2015
In this paper, we consider the consolidation of consumption as prime stage of the production process and the diffusion of new forms of commerce in the city, as foundations for analyzing the urban space reproduction process in the contemporary period ...
Carlos Henrique Costa Da Silva
doaj   +1 more source

Boron availability and fertilizer response of maize in soils from sub‐Saharan Africa

open access: yesJournal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Low boron (B) availability is associated with strongly weathered, coarse‐textured, and low organic matter soils, widespread in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). It is unknown to what extent B fertilization can increase maize yields in SSA.
Mirjam S. Breure   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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