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-owners but mixed results on satisfaction, motivation, and other measures. Perceived participation in decisions is not in itself …. While few studies individually find clear links between employee ownership and firm performance, meta-analyses favor an … overall positive association with performance for ESOPs and for several cooperative features. The dispersed results among …
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We survey the Personnel Economics literature, focusing on how firms establish, maintain, and end employment relationships and on how firms provide incentives to employees. This literature has been very successful in generating models and empirical work about incentive systems. Some of the...
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that both shared capitalism compensation and high performance work policies contribute to these innovation outcomes. Owning … to engage in innovative activity. We also find that shared capitalism and high performance work policies have stronger … performance work policies are partially, but not wholly, mediated through greater employee alignment with company strategy. The …
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We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from … effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000 industrial scientists and engineers (SESTAT 2003), we find that individuals …' motives have significant effects upon innovative effort and performance. These effects vary significantly, however, by the …
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established firms. We then explore whether such differences in employee motives lead to differences in innovative performance …
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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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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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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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This paper estimates the effects of systems of human resource management policies on the performance of U … highest levels of economic performance. Nonunion businesses with ''Union-style" human resource management systems involving … grievance procedures, seniority-based promotions, and no flexible job design exhibit significantly lower levels of performance …
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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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