small firms tend to benefit from the practices that enhance employee participation in the decision-making, the large firms …

In this paper, we present preliminary empirical findings on the incidence of employee involvement practices in the … of the Finnish manufacturing firms who had 50 or more employees in 2005. Our main findings are that employee involvement …

firm-level information on several HRM and employee participation practices of 398 firms, which is 38% of the firms in the … Cobb-Douglas production functions. We find that both the incidence of employee participation practices and the incidence of … not all forms of employee financial and decision-making participation practices have favorable productivity effects …

proposed by Finger and Kreinin (1979) with product quality. Quality is measured using unit export prices in the tradition of … similarity à la Finger and Kreinin, 2) same-quality similarity, and 3) quality-adjusted similarity that combines the first two …-à-vis the non-cohesion EU15 countries has increased, but that there remains a divide between them especially in terms of same-quality …

This study analyses how patent quality impacts the likelihood of acquisition. If a firm owns high quality or valuable … patents, other firms may be interested in buying the firm to obtain the ownership of these patents. To proxy the quality of …. The same does not apply to targets for domestic firms. However, we do not find evidence that the quality of patents …