Changing Perceptions into Reality: Fiduciary Standards to Match the American Directors’ Monitoring Function

This paper describes the historical fiduciary obligations of the American outside director and contrasts those obligations with prevailing obligations in today’s environment of the monitoring director. Special attention is devoted to the role of outside directors when their firm is the target of a takeover. In no other context are the demands on the outside director greater and more strain placed on the monitoring model than in the context of a corporate takeover. The final section of this paper examines the relief modern statutory provisions provide to the director and the monitoring functio

New insights into the internationalization of producer services:Organizational strategies and spatial economies for global headhunting firms

This paper uses the exemplar of global headhunting firms to provide new insights into the intricacies of internationalization and related ‘spatial economies’ of producer services in the world economy. In particular, we unpack the complex relationships between the organisational rationale for, the selected mode of, and future benefits gained by internationalization, as headhunting firms seek and create new geographical markets. We achieve this through an analysis of headhunting firm-specific case study data that details the evolving way such firms organize their differential strategic growth (organic, merger and acquisition, and alliances/network) and forms (wholly-owned, networked or hybrid). We also highlight how, as elite labour market intermediaries, headhunters are important, yet understudied, actors within the (re)production of a ‘softer’, ‘knowledgeable’ capitalism. Our argument, exemplified through detailed mapping of the changing geographies of headhunting firms between 1992 and 2005, demonstrates the need for complex and blurred typologies of internationalization and similarly complex internationalization theory

A Defining Moment . . .

Linfield’s largest campaign in history comes to a successful end

Bridging University-Firm relationships and Open Innovation literature: a critical synthesis

Open Innovation is understood as a flow of incoming and outgoing knowledge and technology which allows, at the level of a firm, the acceleration of the innovation process, as well as a faster establishment and access to new markets, for external use of that same innovation. This type of innovation includes technological innovation, which comes from internal and external sources, as well as different modalities of accessing the market and, therefore, commercializing the innovation. Resorting to a bibliometric analysis, using Open Innovation as the search keyword, we found that the majority of the existing studies on OI is of conceptual character. On the one hand, from the scarce existing empirical studies, the issue of the relation University – Enterprise (U-E), one of the components of the open innovation model, is analyzed in a relatively superficial way neglecting, or not referring in the most appropriated way, the mechanisms by which companies could obtain (via innovation) competitive advantage through the exploration of a more open model of innovation based on the relationships with universities. On the other hand, the existing studies on U-E relations do not highlight, at least in an explicit way, the question of the open innovation model. Such studies are still highly directed to a unidirectional profit optic, that is, are too centred on the advantages which the enterprises will be able to obtain from the relation with the universities, failing taking into account the value that potentially goes to universities from such links.Open Innovation; U-E relations; Emergency; Sustainability; Benefits

Trying Their Wings: Interns Gain Experience at Museum

Kristin Russell ‘03 was looking for an internship and found a career. Russell is one of about 10 Linfield students in the last three years to get an early launch of her career at the Evergreen Aviation Museum and The Captain Michael King Smith Educational Institute in McMinnville

Affective intervention to improve long-term exercise participation by enhancing anticipated, in-task, and post-task affect, An

2019 Spring.Includes bibliographical references.The benefits of regular exercise are immense. Among these benefits are lower morbidity and mortality rates and an improved quality of life. Currently in the United States though, most adults do not meet exercise recommendations; in addition, per capita health care costs have more than doubled since 2000, and nearly 30% of adults are obese. Exercise is a prime mechanism to improve the health of Americans, but current behavior-change models in this area only modestly predict exercise behavior. The lack of exercise enjoyment is a major barrier towards behavior change, and for many, exercise does not feel good. This dissertation describes an intervention that built off both the hedonic theory of motivation and past research in the area of affect and exercise. Both adults in the Northern Colorado area and students at Colorado State University were recruited to participate in an intervention with the goal of increasing exercise behavior by improving exercise-related affect. Seventy-four participants went through a 15-week period where their exercise behavior was tracked: at a baseline laboratory visit, those in the affective intervention condition learned how to make exercise more enjoyable and the importance of doing so, while those in the standard intervention condition set personal exercise goals. Participants in the affective intervention condition increased their exercise levels over baseline levels more so than participants in the standard intervention condition throughout each of the fifteen weeks, although a mixed model repeated measures analysis of variance showed that this effect did not reach traditional measures of statistical significance. Fitness level and exercise performance saw no significant changes from pre- to post-intervention testing in either group. Implications from this experiment extend from adding to past research in this area by adding a longitudinal affective intervention to the literature to creating a new, forward-thinking mechanism towards health behavior change. In addition, these results highlight the difficulty of behavioral interventions in exercise science without strong incentives for participants to increase their exercise behavior. Some of the reasons for that difficulty, such as participants' perceived lack of available time to exercise (the most commonly reported barrier), are discussed in this dissertation's discussion section