Despite the disparities of the life experiences among Asian Americans, the model minority stereotype continues to propagate in the United States. Taking a shared reality theory perspective, we demonstrate that the model minority image of being diligent, high achieving, and submissive is a characteristic representation of Asian Americans that is widely shared among Americans (Study 1). In additi...

Knowledge management is a business model that embraces knowledge as an organizational asset to drive sustainable business advantage. Nowadays the leaders know that they are moving towards knowledge era very fast and they should align all activities in a way that knowledge management facilitates the competition in a better way. Developed countries also try to apply knowledge policies all over th...

The spectral sensitivities of the short (S-), middle (M-) and long (L-) wave-sensitive cones have been measured in normal trichromats and in dichromats and monochromats of known genotype. For the S-cone sensitivities, three blue-cone monochromats and five normals were used; for the M-cone sensitivities, nine protanopes (three with a single L1M2 gene, three with a single L2M3 gene, one with both...

To align employees’ interests with the firm’s goals, employers often use performance-based pay, but designing such a compensation plan is challenging because performance is typically multifaceted. For example, a sales employee should be incentivized to sell the company’s product, but a focus on current sales without rewarding the salespeople according to the quality of the product and/or custom...

Tosi and Gomez-Mejia, (1989) suggest that the challenge of corporate governance is to set up supervisory and incentive alignment mechanisms that alter the risk and effort orientation of agents to align them with the interests of principals. Therefore, the objective of this study is to determine the efficiency of monitoring and incentive contracts given certain characteristics of the firm. That ...

People assume that they perceive the world as it really is. In this article, we review research that questions this assumption and instead suggests that people see what they want to see. We discuss classic and current research demonstrating wishful seeing across two perceptual tasks, showing that people categorize ambiguous visual information and represent their environments in ways that align ...

Companies producing customized products tend to increase the variety of their product portfolio, in order to fulfill the demand of their customers and align their strategies with those of competitors. However, the profitability of product families may vary greatly. The purpose of this paper is to develop an operational method to analyze profitability of Configure-To-Order (CTO) products. The op...

The potential for human resource management to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. life insurance companies has received little attention in the past. Our evidence suggests that U.S. life insurance firms give little attention to consciously aligning their human resource systems with the requirements of their competitive strategies. We also find evidence suggesting that care in preserving relati...

More than 20 years after the first International Conference on Nutrition (ICN), the second ICN (ICN2) cannot use a “business as usual” approach. The world has profoundly changed and nutrition has profoundly changed, as nutrition is now recognized as being multi-sectoral, multi-level, multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary. There is demand from countries for practical tools, guidelines, and sh...

Comprised within the term “return on investment” is the implication that the benefit to be accrued from supporting an initiative matches with the expectation of its potential value. In the case of technology implementations, however, the outcomes of investment often do not align with the intentions of those who propose them. At one extreme visible improvement to organisational processes may be ...