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determined by the maximum potential profitability of the home industry. It is argued that interpretations based on ?profit …
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We investigate the strategies, HR attributes and their synergies that are associated with superior performance in service SMEs using data from the UK Tourism Hospitality and Leisure (THL) sector. A major advantage of our analysis is that our sample includes information also on very small firms...
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1,689 SWIFT adopters) between 1998 and2005. We find that adoption appears to have large effects on profitability, but it … between new technologies and firm organization. The profitability effectoperates by both raising sales and decreasing …
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other aspects of firm behaviour. In this paper we consider the impact of minimum wages on firm profitability by exploiting … firm profitability was significantly reduced (and wages significantly raised) by the minimum wage introduction. This … residential care homes, and a second on firms across all sectors). Interestingly, we find no evidence that the profitability …
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Social capital has emerged as a key concept on the social sciences in general and political science/public policy in particular over the last two decades or so, because, by facilitating collective action among the actors, it leads to increased levels of performance in several public policy areas...
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This paper provides a review and critical discussion of indicators, which attempt to combine the measurement of … (GS) have merely focused on the capacity to provide utility in the future, but have not included the measurement of … failed to account for sustainability in their measurement of current well-being. The paper then critically reviews the Index …
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approach as its measurement framework and recommended that all public bodies use the framework to “agree priorities, set …: Final Recommendations of the Equalities Review Steering Group on Measurement (CASEpaper 121), were prepared as background … papers to assist in the development of the measurement framework for the Equalities Review. It discusses the challenges in …
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United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …
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This paper uses new product-specific, micro-level US data to show that New England had lower levels of productivity in …-abundant country – has higher labour productivity contradicts the Rothbarth-Habakkuk model. We suggest Britain’s industrial success …
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We study the productivity of US owned plants in the UK. Using a new dataset that identifies foreign and domestic MNEs …
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