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, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their … effects on firms R&D expenditures. The relationship between duration of credit and firm's survival and performance is also …
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This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
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on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …
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ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up … ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, profits and profits per share … the performance of teams. In line with theoretical predictions, our data suggest that this positive effect could be …
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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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results show that balanced skills are beneficial to team performance, and that it is hard to substitute individual balanced …
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This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … that team performance as measured in terms of sales, profits and profits per share first increases, and then decreases …
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D expenditures considered as an investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large unique longitudinal database consisting of 1,809 US and...
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The aim of this study is to evaluate employees' productivity in relation to their contract status. This study uses (a) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having more than 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 and (b) information issued by the National...
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