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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Sauermann, Henry - 2008
We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...
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Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups versus Established Firms
Sauermann, Henry - 2017
employees' greater willingness to bear risk. We discuss implications for research as well as for managers and policy makers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455582
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Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors' Monitoring
Ding, Wenzhi; Chen, Lin; Schmid, Thomas; Weisbach, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
What makes independent directors perform their monitoring duty? One possible reason is that they are worried about being sanctioned by regulators if they do not monitor sufficiently well. Using unique features of the Chinese financial market, we estimate the extent to which independent...
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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality : Evidence from Public Hospitals
Bloom, Nicholas - 2010
In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to construct instrumental variables for market...
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Organizational Change in French Manufacturing : What Do We Learn From Firm Representatives and From Their Employees?
Greenan, Nathalie - 1999
In this paper, we use a French matched employer-employee survey, the COI survey, conducted in 1997, to describe the general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore the methodological issues associated with the building...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471498
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The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
Alekseev, Georgij - 2020
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481136
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The Value of Stock Options to Non-Executive Employees
Hallock, Kevin F. - 2006
1990s by a sample of over 2000 middle-level managers from a large, established firm outside of manufacturing. Exercise …
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Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers
Guillouet, Louise; Khandelwal, Amit; Macchiavello, Rocco; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A distinct feature of MNCs is a three-tier organizational structure: foreign managers (FMs) supervise domestic managers …
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Matching and Sorting in a Global Economy
Grossman, Gene M. - 2013
, labor and "managers", each with a distribution of ability levels. Production combines a manager of some type with a group of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459150
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Managers and Productivity in Retail
Metcalfe, Robert D.; Sollaci, Alexandre B.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it is managers themselves or firm-wide management practices … this setting, managers move between stores but management practices are set by firm policy and largely fixed, allowing us … to hone in on managers' personal roles in determining store performance. We find: (i) managers affect and explain a large …
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