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The managerial culture and its impact on economic development of Kosovo
Govori, Arbiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Economic development presumes not only the existence of formal institutions such as property rights and the rule of law under which behave economic agents, but also certain norms or social values that promote exchange, savings and investments. In this context, we discuss cultural dimension of...
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Le nuove frontiere dell'innovazione: riconoscere e valorizzare le competenze professionali in azienda
Ferrari, Filippo; Fortunati, Franco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This publication was produced by a job on a bilateral basis within the project MEC-LAB: "The new frontiers of automation - training days for employees seniors”. This work has allowed a theoretical study and moments of reflection on skills, negotiation, career plans, highlighting the centrality...
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Banking consolidation and the availability of credit to small businesses
Cole, Rebel; Walraven, Nick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
In this study, we use firm-level data from the 1993 National Survey of Small Business Finances to test the hypothesis that banking consolidation has reduced the availability of credit to small businesses. We find that banks in markets where mergers have occurred are more likely than other banks...
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Do mergers create or destroy value? Evidence from unsuccessful mergers
Cole, Rebel; Fatemi, Ali; Vu, Joseph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this study, we examine unsuccessful takeover attempts for new evidence on whether mergers create or destroy value … literature on signaling by investigating whether a takeover attempt signals investors about the quality of firm management as … partially, but not completely, reversed by termination announcement returns, evidence that the merger proposal itself contains …
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Adapting through personal development
Irimie, Sabin Ioan; Baleanu, Virginia; Irimie, Sabina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Purpose – The paper aims to reveal and discuss the recent growing interest for personal development that seems to outline an emerging study field, and especially a flourishing industry of training business, but with many different approaches more or less related to individual needs and...
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We're on a road to nowhere... new forms of work organization and national cultures
Ferreira, Pedro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The main objective of this paper is to discuss how far the cultural environment is related to the potential that new forms of work organization, namely autonomy and teamwork, have for success. To accomplish this objective two main approaches will be used: on the one hand, the Socio-Technical...
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Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance
Cuñat, Vicente; Gine, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP); a policy that increases shareholder "voice" by providing shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to the votes on shareholder-sponsored SoP proposals. Adopting SoP leads to large increases...
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Acquisition Premiums of Executive Compensation in China: a Matching View
Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
More aggressive acquiring firms paid higher executive compensation than non or less aggressive acquiring firms. This paper applies the generalized propensity score (GPS) methodology to estimate the relationship between a firm’s acquisition and its executive compensation. Allowing for...
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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?
Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
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Searching for Jobs: Evidence from MBA Graduates
Kuhnen, Camelia M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper proposes and tests empirically a model of optimal job search using novel data on job seeking strategies of participants in the labor market for MBA graduates. Theoretically and empirically I find that the breadth of search that workers conduct depends on their ability, outside option,...
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