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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. We estimate that their campaigns led American corporations to add at least 2.5 times as many female directors in 2019 as they had in 2016. Firms increased diversity by...
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Capital Structure and a Firm’s Workforce
Matsa, David A. - 2018
firm's workforce on its capital structure. For instance, high leverage often makes managing labor more difficult by … undermining employees' job security and increasing the need for costly workforce reductions. But firms can also use leverage to … needs and management of their workforce when making financing decisions …
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How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths
Jäger, Simon; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. The average effect masks...
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The analysis of firms and employees : quantitative and qualitative approaches
Bender, Stefan (contributor); Lane, Julia (contributor);  … - 2008
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Edmans, Alex; Flammer, Caroline; Glossner, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
senior management, and within the workforce, suggesting that DEI captures additional dimensions missing from traditional …
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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work
Fuchs, Victor R. - 1986
This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in hours of work and earnings during the second half of 1985. The workers were asked how they used the free time and how they viewed the program, and their answers were analyzed in...
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When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
List, John A. - 2017
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a cornerstone of modern business practice, developing from a "why" in the 1960s to a "must" today. Early empirical evidence on both the demand and supply sides has largely confirmed CSR's efficacy. This paper combines theory with a large-scale...
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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
We examine whether startups attract employees with different pecuniary and non-pecuniary motives than small or large established firms. We then explore whether such differences in employee motives lead to differences in innovative performance across firm types. Using data on over 10,000 U.S. R&D...
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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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