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We consider the cost of providing incentives through tournaments when workers are inequity averse and performance … envy depending on the costs of assessing performance. More envious employees are preferred when these costs are high, less … à la mesure de la performance. Lorsque ces coûts sont élevés, le principal préférerait des travailleurs plus envieux; à …
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We attempt to answer the following questions: What are the revaluation effects and the impact on performance … liberalization across firms. Large firms tend to exhibit large revaluation effects, insignificant change in performance, large …, improved performance, smaller decline in volatility and decreases in correlation after liberalization. These results hold after …
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This paper investigates the relationship between organizational fit and performance. More specifically internal … between the level of internal coherence and firm performance is assessed in the specific context of SMEs. Results derived from … a particular form of theoretical approach based on fit as gestalt suggest that fit and performance must be interpreted …
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recent research, and uses a very unique Canadian longitudinal data set that encompasses all companies in the Canadian economy …
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In a setting where training or promotion opportunity depend on expected initial ability, the effects of signalling initial skills on wages may last well beyond the period when knowledge of a workers' skill set is fully known. This paper proposes extending recent tests for signalling to better...
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This paper studies changes in diversification of firms and plants since the early 1970s in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It finds that there has been a general increase in specialization of both firms and plants. Firms have been continuously reducing the span of industries in which they...
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doctoral candidates who conducted a collaborative Ph.D. project outperform their peers in academic performance. Less …
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