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Organization Context and Human Resource Management in the Small Firm

Kok, Jan de; Uhlaner, Lorraine M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

contextual variables examined include company size, thepresence of a collective labor agreement, having a large firm associate … important finding is the significance of having a large firm associate. Companies witha large firm associate are more likely to …

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Collective Bargaining under Non-binding Contracts

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutral employees negotiate over …

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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance

Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay? Combining a contingency perspective with the resource-based view … of the firm clarifies the positive relationship between corporate environmental and social perform-ance (ESP) and CFP …

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Negative Externalities, and Financial Risk: The Case of Climate Change

Busch, Timo; Lehmann, Nils; Hoffmann, Volker H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

(Godfrey, 2005). Thus far, this risk management hypothesis has been verified for the effects of firm-specific negative events …-based risk, but do not find empirical support for this. We conclude that CSR-activities aimed at reducing a firm’s exposure to …

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Micro-Evidence on the Determinants of Innovation in The Netherlands: The Relative Importance of Absorptive Capacity and Agglomeration Externalities

Smit, Martijn J.; Abreu, Maria A.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This paper employs firm-level data to analyze the relative importance of firm characteristics and agglomeration … estimate the probability that a firm will introduce a goods, service or process innovation. We consider internal firm …-Arrow-Romer, Porter and Jacobs effects. Our results show that most firm-specific variables are highly statistically significant, whereas …

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The Economics of First-Contract Mediation

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto efficient and proves immune to the insider-outsider problem of...

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Intention-Based Reciprocity and the Hidden Costs of Control

Siemens, Ferdinand von - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Empirical research suggests that - rather than improving incentives - exerting controlcan reduce workers' performance by eroding motivation. The present paper shows thatintention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding-out if individuals differin their propensity for reciprocity...

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The Pre-commitment Advantage of Having a Slow Legislative System

Frijters, Paul; Tieman, Alexander F. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

In this paper it is argued that the slowness of the legislativesystem implies pre-commitment of legislation for at least the periodit takes to change a law. A simple model illustrates the benefit ofthis pre-commitment.

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What Clients want: Choices between Lawyers' Offerings

Felso, Flora; Onderstal, Sander; Seldeslachts, Jo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We analyze a client's choice of contract in auctions where Dutch law firms compete for routine cases. The distinguishing feature here is that lawyers may submit bids with any fee arrangement they prefer: an hourly rate, a fixed fee or a mixed fee, which is a time-capped fixed fee plus an hourly...

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Uncertainty of Law and the Legal Process

Dari-Mattiacci, Guiseppe; Deffains, Bruno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

There is extensive literature on whether courts or legislators produce efficient rules, but which of them produces rules efficiently? The law is subject to uncertainty ex ante; uncertainty makes the outcomes of trials difficult to predict and deters parties from settling disputes out of court. In...

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