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Impact business design : der Guide zur Modellierung enkelfähiger Organisationen : playbook

Grabmeier, Stephan; Petzolt, Stephan K. - 2023

Klappentext: Neue Modelle für eine regenerative enkelfähige Wirtschaft gibt es bereits. Das ist die gute Nachricht. Impact Economy bedeutet, eine Wirtschaft zu gestalten, in der es nicht um Gewinnen oder Verlieren geht, sondern darum, möglichst lange mitzuspielen. Die planetaren Grenzen...

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Does Management Matter in Schools

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics : Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects

Kueng, Lorenz - 2014

-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include organizational capital accumulation and management practices, financial … organization and innovation. Second, among theories we analyze, organizational capital and management practices are the most …

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Information Aggregation, Investment, and Managerial Incentives

Albagli, Elias - 2011

We study the interplay of share prices and firm decisions when share prices aggregate and convey noisy information about fundamentals to investors and managers. First, we show that the informational feedback between the firm's share price and its investment decisions leads to a systematic...

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Matching Firms, Managers and Incentives

Bandiera, Oriana - 2011

We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The data includes manager characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to...

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The State of Corporate Governance Research

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2009

This paper, which introduces the special issue on corporate governance co-sponsored by the Review of Financial Studies and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), reviews and comments on the state of corporate governance research. The special issue features seven papers on corporate...

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Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?

Giroud, Xavier - 2009

By reducing the threat of a hostile takeover, business combination (BC) laws weaken corporate governance and increase the opportunity for managerial slack. Consistent with the notion that competition mitigates managerial slack, we find that while firms in non-competitive industries experience a...

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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Aghion, Philippe - 2009

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...

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Modern Management : Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2008

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …

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Managerial Incentives and Value Creation : Evidence from Private Equity

Leslie, Phillip - 2008

We analyze the differences between companies owned by private equity (PE) investors and similar public companies. We document that PE-owned companies use much stronger incentives for their top executives and have substantially higher debt levels. However, we find little evidence that PE-owned...

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