Similar Search Results

Business Strategy and Firm Reorganization under Changing Market Conditions

Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2009

This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979391

Being Independent is a Great Thing: Subjective Evaluations of Self-Employment and Hierarchy

Frey, Bruno S.; Benz, Matthias - CESifo - 2003

One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765857

Why so Unhappy? The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction

Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - CESifo - 2005

We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766036

Job Mobility and the Gender Wage Gap in Italy

Bono, Emilia Del; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2008

This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian labour market. We show that men experience higher wage growth than women during the first 10 years of their career, and that this difference is particularly large when workers...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094222

Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency; The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; … - CESifo - 2011

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371342

Strategic Approaches to CO2 Emissions - The Case of the Cement Industry and of the Chemical Industry

Arjaliès, Diane Laure; Goubet, Cécile; Ponssard, … - CESifo - 2014

The ability of companies to turn an environmental constraint into a source of strategic opportunities is a controversial topic in published research. The article, which is based on a comparative study of the CO2 emission reduction strategies implemented by the cement and chemical industries,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877636

How Do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism Shape Innovative Activity?

Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2013

that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877694

Innovation Contests

Pérez-Castrillo, David; Wettstein, David - CESifo - 2014

We study innovation contests with asymmetric information and identical contestants, where contestants’ efforts and … highest quality and receives the revenue generated by the innovation. We characterize the equilibrium behavior, outcomes and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877748

Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - CESifo - 2013

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877893

Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?

Komlos, John - CESifo - 2014

destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888453