We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales targets. A bonus to teams rather than...

Globalization has set new paradigms, especially in the business world. Breakthroughs in technology (telecommunications, logistics, the internet) and ideology (most notably economic and political trends in China and India) are creating exciting opportunities as well as crucial challenges. This...

Die Expertise bezieht sich auf das vom Akkreditierungsrat koordinierte System der auf Studium und Lehre bezogenen Akkreditierung, in dem sich die Akteure aus der Berufspraxis aufgrund seiner bildungspolitischen Relevanz engagieren. Sie bildet die Grundlage für eine Weiterentwicklung der...

Ist Qualitätsmanagement für Betriebs- und Personalräte geeignet? In letzter Zeit werden schrittweise Regelungen der Arbeits- und Einkommensbedingungen der Beschäftigten von der tariflichen auf die betriebliche Ebene verlagert. Mit zunehmenden Auseinandersetzungen um Arbeitsplatzerhalt,...

We implement an endogeneous switching-regression model for labour productivity and firms' decision to use business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. Our approach allows B2B usage to affect any parameter of the labour productivity equation and to properly take account of strategic complementarities...

This paper explores the experience of information sharing, coordination, and integration of actions of the Civil and Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the introduction of information management systems and...

This article documents a new value creation function of private equity investors who carry out buy- and-build strategies. Buy-and-build strategies constitute an initial acquisition of a firm, serving as a “platform”, by a private equity investor and follow-on private equity-backed...

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years from 2002 to 2010, to a unique data set developed by...

This paper estimates how compliance with national labor law and international labor standards within Jordan's garment exporting factories changed after the implementation of a transparency program that made compliance assessments publicly available. The estimation employs data from Better Work...