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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076902
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Effective Virtual Teams through Communities of Practice
Kimble, Chris; Barlow, Alexis; Li, Feng - EconWPA - 2005
This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. It presents a framework for categorising virtual teams and argues that fundamental changes have taken place in the business environment which force people and organisations to operate in 'two spaces'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125039
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Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?
Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134471
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Why Are There Explicit Contracts of Employment?
James, Harvey; Johnson, Derek - EconWPA - 2002
In this paper we explain the prevalence of explicit contracts of employment, particularly those that embody high … agency characterized in and supported by the common law. The implication is that implicit employment contracts supported by … the common law are incapable of effectively governing employment relationship characterized by these two problems. Thus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076642
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Review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
The terms of reference for this public inquiry into the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 asked the Commission to look at how effective the Act had been been in achieving its objectives, and to assess the costs and benefits of the Act. In its final assessment, the Commission identified ways in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412524