Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge the manager has acquired and successfully diffused...

After an extensive discussion of the nature of the interactions among unions, corporations, and government, we find that government in granting privileges to workers organized into unions implicitly taxes capital formation. The result has been to lessen the attention business decisions pay to...

Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge the manager has acquired and successfully diffused...

The effect of wage inequality on team production is an important question in labor economics. Data from sports are well suited to study this problem, with more than 10 published papers in the last decade. We analyze the effect of wage inequality both on team performance and efficiency, using...

The effect of wage inequality on team production is an important question in labor economics. Data from sports are well suited to study this problem, with more than 10 published papers in the last decade. We analyze the effect of wage inequality on team performance, using an unique dataset from...

Prepared for the Daniel J. Dykstra Corporate Governance Symposium at University of California, Davis, in February 2001, this article argues that changes in corporate governance in the United States - specifically the relaxation of the profit maximization norm, the broadening of management's...

Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge the manager has acquired and successfully diffused...

Quality of Work Life plays a very significant role in the life of workers. The paper based on the study of the textile industries in Rajasthan, builds the case for improving quality of work life of the workers. The sample size selected for the study is 1200 workers working in the five textile...

The present study aims to study the Quality of Work Life of textile industries workers in Rajasthan. People are the common element in every organization, because without the support of people, machine remains idle and money tied up. Textile industries of Rajasthan are suffering from many...