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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects

Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

What determines firm growth over the life-cycle? Exploiting unique firm panel data on internal organization, balance sheets and innovation, representative of the entire Canadian economy, we study recent theories that examine life-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include...

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Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment

bloom, nicholas; Roberts, John; Liang, James; Ying, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

led to a 13% performance increase, of which about 9% was from working more minutes per shift (fewer breaks and sick … satisfaction and experienced less turnover, but their promotion rate conditional on performance fell. Due to the success of the …

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Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these … markets are associated with improvements in incentive management practices such as performance based promotion. …

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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

bandiera, oriana; Sadun, Raffaella; Prat, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is known about what …

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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of permanent replacement workers by Bridgestone/Firestone in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of an excess number of defective tires....

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The Path to the Top: Changes in the Attributes and Careers of Corporate Executives, 1980-2001

Hamori, Monika; Cappelli, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

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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Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors

Katz, Sharon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term performance. Focusing … performance after they go public. These results stem from the professional ownership, tighter monitoring, and reputational …

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The New Empirical Economics of Management

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...

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Estimating Management Practice Complementarity between Decentralization and Performance Pay

Hong, Bryan; Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

, 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 … for the complementarity of performance pay and decentralization of decision-making from principals to employees …

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The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth

Karlan, Dean; Fischer, Greg - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...

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