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Corporate Culture : Evidence from the Field

Graham, John R. - 2017

Does corporate culture matter? Can differences in corporate culture explain why similar firms diverge with one succeeding and the other failing? To answer these questions, we use a novel survey and interview-based analysis of 1,348 North American firms. Over half of senior executives believe...

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Executives' "Off-The-Job" Behavior, Corporate Culture, and Financial Reporting Risk

Davidson, Robert - 2012

We examine how executives' behavior outside the workplace, as measured by their ownership of luxury goods (low "frugality") and prior legal infractions, is related to financial reporting risk. We predict and find that CEOs and CFOs with a legal record are more likely to perpetrate fraud. In...

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Managers and Productivity in Retail

Metcalfe, Robert D.; Sollaci, Alexandre B.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it is managers themselves or firm-wide management practices that matter. We shed light on this question by...

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Management Ownership and Corporate Performance : An Empirical Analysis

Morck, Randall - 1986

We investigate the relation between management ownership and corporate performance, as measured by Tobin's Q. In a cross-section of Fortune 500 firms, Tobin's Q first increases and then declines as board of directors holdings rise. For older firms there is weak evidence that Q is lower when a...

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Black and White : Access to Capital among Minority-Owned Startups

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

We use confidential and restricted-access data from the Kauffman Firm Survey and matched administrative data on credit scores to explore racial disparities in access to capital for new business ventures. The novel results on racial inequality in startup financing indicate that black-owned...

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Jim Crow in the Saddle : The Expulsion of African American Jockeys from American Racing

Leeds, Michael - 2020

Between the Civil War and the turn of the nineteenth century there were many prominent African American jockeys. They rode winners in all of the Triple-Crown races. But at the turn of the century they were forced out. This paper uses a new data set on the Triple-Crown races, which includes odds...

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Clusters of Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2009

. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …

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Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms

Caselli, Francesco - 2007

firms (entrepreneurship) and the average quality of management (meritocracy). Legal reform also reduces financial … improve meritocracy at the expense of entrepreneurship. As a result, legal reform encounters less political opposition than …

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Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers : 1984-2001

DiNardo, John - 2004

Economic impacts of unionization on employers are difficult to estimate in the absence of large, representative data on establishments with union status information. Estimates are also confounded by selection bias, because unions could organize at highly profitable enterprises that are more...

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Institutions, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Firm Dynamics : Evidence from Europe

Desai, Mihir - 2003

We explore the impact of the institutional environment on the nature of entrepreneurial activity across Europe. Political, legal, and regulatory variables that have been shown to impact capital market development influence entrepreneurial activity in the emerging markets of Europe, but not in...

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