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Worker commitment and establishment performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2021

Using a cross section of matched data from the employee and management questionnaires of the European Company Survey, this paper investigates the determinants of worker commitment and the potential contribution of commitment to establishment performance. An index of worker commitment is...

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Management practices and establishment performance under non-union workplace representation

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Bellmann, Lutz - 2020

This paper brings together two factors deemed important correlates of firm performance: advanced management practices and works councils. The country sample comprises nations where workplace representation is via a works council. The Management Questionnaire of the 2013 European Company Survey...

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Trust and workplace performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2019

This paper explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance. The outcome indicators are management's assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially measured using the individual survey respondent's...

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Dissonant works councils and establishment survivability

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2019

Using subjective information provided by manager respondents on the stance taken by the works council in company decision making, this paper investigates the association between a measure of works council dissonance or disaffection and plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects...

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Contract innovation in Germany : an economic evaluation of pacts for employment and competitiveness

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - In: BJIR : an international journal of employment relations 55 (2017) 3, pp. 500-526

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Unlocking the value of cross-border mergers and acquisitions

Brakman, Steven; Garita, Gus; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2008

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Cross-border mergers & acquisitions : the facts as a guide for international economics

Brakman, Steven (contributor); Garretsen, Harry (contributor) - 2006

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The location of cross-border mergers & acquisitions in the USA

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2015 - First version: October 2014, this version: April 2015

The research on the location choice for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is traditionally restricted to a choice between countries. The within-country location choice is less prominent in the literature. If within-country location decisions are considered it is mostly limited to Greenfield...

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A model of heterogeneous firm matches in cross-border mergers & acquisitions

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Gerritse, Michiel; … - 2018 - This version: May 2018

In contrast to empirical evidence, recent theories of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) assume perfect knowledge transfers - from high to low productivity firms - between acquirer and target. Using the Melitz (2003) model of heterogeneous firms, we develop a matching model of...

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Relaxing Hukou : increased labor mobility and China's economic geography

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2010

China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China's prefecture cities …

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