into the interdependencies between technical aspects of the work itself and the broader social milieu in which the work is done Yet for all its merit, the socio-technical systems approach provides few explicit specifications of how (and under what circumstances) the work itself and the social surroundings affect one

of constructs). Prior to creating parcels, however, we recommend strongly that investigators acquire a thorough understanding of the nature and dimensionality of the items to be parceled. With this knowledge in hand, various techniques for creating parcels can be utilized to minimize potential pitfalls

The role of unconscious and conscious thought in decision making was investigated in 5 experiments. Because of the low processing capacity of consciousness, conscious thought was hypothesized to be maladaptive when making complex decisions. Conversely, unconscious thought was expected to be highly

We investigate the properties of a new merit function which allows us to reduce a nonlinear complementarity problem to an unconstrained global minimization one. Assuming that the complementarity problem is defined by a P 0 -function we prove that every stationary point of the unconstrained problem

Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Hollander, S. (2007). The merits and economic consequences of reputation: Three essays Tilburg: CentER, Center for Economic Research General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal

Abstract—Multiplication measurements on GaAs p+-i-n+s with-region thicknesses, , between 1 m and 0.025 m and Monte Carlo (MC) calculations of the avalanche process are used to investigate the applicability of the local ionization theory. The local expressions for multiplication are able to predict

This paper investigates the use of supervised clustering in order to create sets of categories for classification of documents. We use information from a pre-existing taxonomy in order to supervise the creation of a set of related clusters, though with some freedom in defining and creating

classes of distributed applications in light of these limitations, and the potential impact of these facilities on communication scalability and robustness. From this investigation, we find limited merit and several potential problems in using CATOCS. The fundamental difficulty with the CATOCS

This paper investigates whether the widespread awarding of faculty merit pay at a large public university accurately reflects productivity. We show that pairwise voting on a quality standard by a committee can in theory be consistent with observed allocation patterns. However, the data indicate

We examine the codewords with best possible merit factor (minimum sum of squares of periodic autocorrelations) for a variety of lengths. Many di#erent approaches were tried in an attempt to find construction methods for such codewords, or for codewords with good but non-optimal merit factors