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-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include organizational capital accumulation and management practices, financial …
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center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly assigned to work from home or in the office for 9 months. Home working …
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For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management …
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that the observed difference between family and professional CEOs is consistent with heterogeneous preferences for work …
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This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long … Decatur plant closely coincided with lower product quality. Count data regression models based on two data sets of tire … failures by plant, year and age show significantly higher failure rates for tires produced in Decatur during the labor dispute …
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The analyses below compare the career histories and personal characteristics of the executives in the top ranks of the world's largest and most stable business operations, the Fortune 100, between 1980 and 2001. To our knowledge, there have been no prior studies of contemporary changes in the...
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This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term performance. Focusing … on a unique sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their … that do not (non-PE-backed firms). The findings indicate that PE-backed firms generally have higher earnings quality than …
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-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …. Competition, governance, human capital and informational frictions help account for the variation in management. …
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The existence of complementarity across management practices has been proposed as one potential explanation for the …, occupational composition, and firm performance for a nationally representative sample of firms in the Canadian economy, we exploit … regional variation in income tax progression as an instrument for the adoption of performance pay. We find systematic evidence …
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practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though … highly selected sample frames, which limits the potential for clear, generalizable policy prescriptions. Ultimately, larger …
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