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Employee voice and private sector workplace outcomes in Britain, 1980-2004

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Kretschmer, Tobias; Willman, P. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Non-union direct voice has replaced union representative voice as the primary avenue for employee voice in the British private sector. This paper provides a framework for examining the relationship between employee voice and workplace outcomes that explains this development. As exit-voice theory...

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Employee stock purchase plans – gift or incentive? evidence from a multinational corporation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...

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What happens when employers are free to discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for...

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The comparative advantage of non-union voice in Britain, 1980-2004

Willman, Paul; Bryson, Alex; Kretschmer, Tobias; Gomez, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Non-union direct voice has replaced union representative voice as the primary avenue for employee voice in the British private sector. This study explains this development by providing a framework for examining the relationship between employee voice and workplace outcomes. Voice is associated...

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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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Knowledge and Structure

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction … costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of …

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A Model of Primary and Secondary Waves in Investment Cycles

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

. Uniting Schumpeter's concern for innovation with Keynes' concern for uncertainty and expectations formation, this article … focuses on the behaviour of entrepreneurs confronting uncertainty caused by innovation. Entrepreneurs' behaviour is … opened up by a successful innovation generates a state of optimism in the minds of single entrepreneurs, which eventually …

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Evidence Theory: A Mathematical Framework for Unpredictable Hypotheses

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

Shafer's evidence theory is a branch of the mathematics of uncertain reasoning that allows for novel possibilities to be conceived by a decision-maker. Many of its findings exhibit striking similarities with an alternative decision theory purported by Shackle in the 1950s, before expected...

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How does innovation affect worker well-being?

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Barth, Erling - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation – a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …

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