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Research and International Business

This article addresses issues of relevant research by differentiating research from intelligence-gathering, by presenting classical approach to develop criteria for selecting research topic, by indicating the importance of research validity and limitations, and by taking eclectic paradigm as an example of research in international business.

4th International Research Conference

4th International Research Conference

This paper develops dynamic structural models --an option value model and a dynamic programming model-of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application decision. We estimate the time to application from the point at which a health condition first begins to affect the kind or amount of work that a currently employed person can do. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) augment...

4th International Research Conference

Annuities provide insurance against outliving one’s wealth. Previous studies have indicated that, for many households, the value of the longevity insurance should outweigh the actuarial unfairness of prices in the voluntary annuity market. Nonetheless, voluntary annuitization rates are extremely low. The proportion of the financial assets of elderly households that is compulsorily annuitized is...

International Research on Leadership

Project GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) is a major long-term multiphase, multimethod research project to study cross-cultural leadership differences and similarities among countries (Javidan and House 2002). Project GLOBE’s 150 researchers, located in universities around the world, collected data from 15,000 middle managers from 875 organizations in the finan...