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The Big Three and Board Gender Diversity : The Effectiveness of Shareholder Voice

Gormley, Todd A.; Gupta, Vishal K.; Matsa, David A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards … they had in 2016. Firms increased diversity by identifying candidates beyond managers' existing networks and by placing …-based governance changes and the important impact of investor buy-in in increasing corporate-leadership diversity …

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Human Resource Management and Performance in the Service Sector : The Case of Bank Branches

Bartel, Ann P. - 2000

This paper utilizes a unique dataset collected through site visits to extend the analysis of the relationship between the human resource management environment and establishment performance to the service sector, specifically the branch operations of a large bank. Case studies of several...

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The Role of Industry, Occupation, and Location-Specific Knowledge in the Survival of New Firms

Figueroa, C. Jara - 2018

How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that knowledge? Here we measure the industry, occupation, and location specific knowledge carried by workers from one...

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Human Capital Reallocation Across Firms : Evidence from Idiosyncratic Shocks

Gilje, Erik P.; Taillard, Jerôme P.; Zeng, Linghang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study human capital reallocation following firm-specific idiosyncratic shocks. Theory offers diverging predictions as to whether human capital gets reallocated to its most productive use following these shocks. To empirically test these predictions, we focus on relegation battles in the...

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Connective Capital as Social Capital : The Value of Problem-Solving Networks for Team Players in Firms

Ichniowski, Casey - 2009

Traditional human capital theory emphasizes a worker's investment in knowledge. However, when a worker is faced with day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within the firm. When a worker taps into the knowledge of...

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Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs

Chi, Wei - 2007

This study uses a 10-year longitudinal database on U.S. manufacturing establishments to analyze the dynamics of the adoption and termination of employee involvement programs (EI). We show that firms' use of EI has not grown continuously, but rather introduce and terminate EI policies in ways...

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Motivating Employee-Owners in ESOP Firms : Human Resource Policies and Company Performance

Kruse, Douglas - 2003

What enables some employee ownership firms to overcome the free rider problem and motivate employees to improve performance? This study analyzes the role of human resource policies in the performance of employee ownership companies, using employee survey data from 14 companies and a national...

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Diversity in Innovation

Gompers, Paul A. - 2017

also explore the correlation between diversity and state-level variations. Finally, we discuss how these patterns are …

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The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Productivity

Ichniowski, Casey - 1995

Increasingly, firms are considering the adoption of new work practices, such as problem-solving teams, enhanced communication with workers, employment security, flexibility in job assignments, training workers for multiple jobs, and greater reliance on incentive pay. This paper provides...

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Human Resource Policies and Union-Nonunion Productivity Differences

Allen, Steven G. - 1988

Many researchers in both economics departments and business schools recently have become interested in examining how much of an effect human resource decisions and policies have on firm performance. This paper surveys the literature on unionism and productivity and discusses its implications for...

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