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Complementarities in Automobile Production

Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

the adoption decisions using activity-specific instruments, as proposed by Athey and Stern (2003). …

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Berk, Jonathan B.; Binsbergen, Jules H. van; Liu, Binying - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We establish an important role for the firm by studying capital reallocation decisions of mutual fund firms. At least 30% of the value mutual fund managers add can be attributed to the firm's role in efficiently allocating capital amongst its mutual fund managers. We find no evidence of a...

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Spin-offs and the Market for Ideas

Chatterjee, Satyajit; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We propose a theory of firm dynamics in which workers have ideas for new projects that can be sold in a market to existing firms or implemented in new firms: spin-offs. Workers have private information about the quality of their ideas. Because of an adverse selection problem, workers can sell...

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International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes

Helper, Susan; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational producer of automotive sensors and actuators. We examine the...

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Who Has a Better Idea? Innovation, Shared Capitalism, and HR Policies

Harden, Erika; Kruse, Douglas L.; Blasi, Joseph R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

, and stock options - to the culture for innovation and employees' ability and willingness to engage in innovative activity … that both shared capitalism compensation and high performance work policies contribute to these innovation outcomes. Owning … company stock is the most consistently positive compensation variable in predicting both an innovation culture and willingness …

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How Does Shared Capitalism Affect Economic Performance in the UK?

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper uses nationally representative linked workplace-employee data from the British 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the operation of shared capitalist forms of pay--profit-sharing and group pay for performance, employee share ownership, and stock options--and their...

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Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth

Morck, Randall; Nakamura, Masao - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Rosenstein-Rodan (1943) and others posit that rapid development requires a 'big push' -- the coordinated rapid growth of diverse complementary industries, and suggests a role for government in providing such coordination. We argue that Japan's zaibatsu, or pyramidal business groups, provided...

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Who do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses

Greenwood, Jeremy; Dinlersoz, Emin; Hyatt, Henry - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...

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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property: Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy

Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...

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How Does Outsourcing Affect Performance Dynamics? Evidence from the Automobile Industry

Novak, Sharon; Stern, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper examines the impact of vertical integration on the dynamics of performance over the automobile product development lifecycle. Building on recent work in organizational economics and strategy, we evaluate the relationship between vertical integration and different performance margins....

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