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Access to finance: a functional approach to supply and demand

Fischer, Gregory - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper provides a comprehensive description of the financial environment for households and small businesses in a defined geographical region. It develops a new, functional approach to financial access surveys, which involves asking detailed questions about how respondents meet their...

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Outsourcing and offshoring engineering projects: understanding the value, sourcing models, and coordination practices

Willcocks, Leslie P.; Oshri, Ilan; Kotlarsky, Julia; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In this paper, we review recent developments in the field of outsourcing and offshoring and the implications for … engineering management. We examine three aspects involved in outsourcing and offshoring, namely, sourcing models, coordination …, and value extracted from outsourcing projects. We conclude that additional research is needed on recent trends in …

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The value of bosses

Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper...

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Making do with less: working harder during recessions

Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second is that each incumbent worker produced more. The second effect is termed “making do with less.” Using data from 2006 to 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large...

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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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HRM practices and knowledge processes outcomes: empirical evidence from a quasi-experiment on UK SMEs in the tourism hospitality and leisure sector

Georgiadis, Andreas; Pitelis, Christos N. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper presents empirical evidence of the relationship between human resources practices and the effectiveness of a firm to capitalise on investment in knowledge as measured by the returns to innovation and business development expenditure. The empirical design is based on exploiting a...

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Why do management practices differ across firms and countries?

Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Economists have long puzzled over the astounding differences in productivity between firms and countries. For example, looking at disaggregated data on U.S. manufacturing industries, Syverson (2004a) found that plants at the 90th percentile produced four times as much as the plant in the 10th...

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Relational knowledge transfers

Garicano, Luis; Rayo, Luis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

An expert must train a novice. The novice initially has no cash, so he can only pay the expert with the accumulated surplus from his production. At any time, the novice can leave the relationship with his acquired knowledge and produce on his own. The sole reason he does not is the prospect of...

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Financial institutions and the wealth of nations: tales of development

Tong, Jian; Chenggang, Xu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Interactions between economic development and financial development are studied by looking at the roles of financial institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the evolution of the financing regimes. The...

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The value of insolvency safe harbours

Paech, Philipp - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

‘Safe harbour’ is shorthand for a bundle of privileges in insolvency which are typically afforded to financial institutions. They are remotely comparable to security interests as they provide a financial institution with a considerably better position as compared to other creditors should...

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