Recent posts here at Turner Business have spotlighted the important work being done by the Butler Center for Research & Economic Development. In the event our readers are not familiar with the staff of the Center, this post provides some information in that regard. The Director of the Butler Center, and holder of the Sarah T. Butler Chair in Economics, is economics professor Fady Mansour. Joining Mansour is Oliver Odde, who serves as Research Assistant for the Center. Lastly, as mentioned in a recent post here at Turner Business, Jiane Louella Rabara currently serves the Center as its Public Relations Representative.
Former Turner College student Tamara Todorova , now an associate professor of economics at American University in Bulgaria (AUB), recently published a study on corporate culture and strategy. Todorova earned an MBA from the Turner College in 1996 and then went on to earn a doctorate in international economics from the University of Economics - Varna in 2001. She has been on the faculty at AUB since August of 2000. Todorova's study, which appears in the current issue of the International Journal of Business Performance Management , investigates how corporate culture helps to economize on the transaction costs of internal organization. As she explains, the dimensions of corporate culture that assist in this task include increasing trust and reducing intrafirm opportunism. Todorova's study demonstrates that setting common goals and a common direction reduces the sizeable costs of internal organization. Tamara's prior research appears in Economics of Transition , International
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