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An economic rationale for public education : the value of commitment
Grâdšṭayn, Marq - 1999
This paper offers an explanation for the widespread phenomenon of uniform public schooling, which is viewed here as a way for the government to precommit itself to restraints on future income redistribution. Such precommitment is likely to enhance accumulation of human capital, to bolster...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781704
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Management practices, worker commitment, and workplace representation
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2020
incorporating the notion of affective commitment. It is reported that that low worker commitment is unlikely to be found in … without formal workplace representation. Greater worker commitment is strongly associated with improved labor productivity … commitment trumps any negative influence of worker representation type. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012223854
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Complementarities of HRM practices : a case for employing multiple methods and integrating multiple fields
Englmaier, Florian; Schüßler, Katharina - 2015
We provide an overview over different literature streams that aim at explaining the origin of persistent productivity differences across organizations by variation in the use of management practices. We focus on human resource management (HRM) practices, document gaps in the literature, and show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492325
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Old before their time : the role of employers in retirement decisions
Bello, Piera; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2015
Do elderly workers retire early voluntarily, or are they induced (or even forced) by their employees? To establish the relevance of the labor demand component in retirement decisions, we consider a trade liberalization between Switzerland and the EU - the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA). A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406562
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Cultural stereotypes of multinational banks
Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - 2022
Using hand-collected data spanning more than a decade on European banks' sovereign debt portfolios, we show that the trust of residents of a bank's countries of operation in the residents of a potential target country of investment has a positive, statistically significant, and economically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013463528
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Pharmaceutical patents : incentives for R&D or marketing?
Brekke, Kurt R. (contributor); Straume, Odd Rune (contributor) - 2008
We analyse how a patent-holding pharmaceutical firm may strategically use advertising of existing drugs to affect R&D investments in new (differentiated) drugs, and thereby affect the probability distribution of future market structures in the industry. Within a fairly general model framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771873
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Strategic approaches to CO2 emissions : the case of the cement industry and of the chemical industry
Arjaliès, Diane Laure; Goubet, Cécile; Ponssard, … - 2014
The ability of companies to turn an environmental constraint into a source of strategic opportunities is a controversial topic in published research. The article, which is based on a comparative study of the CO2 emission reduction strategies implemented by the cement and chemical industries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249687
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Firms' ethics, consumer boycotts, and signalling
Glazer, Amihai (contributor); Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor) - 2008
This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003720255
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Quality differentiation and optimal pricing strategy in multi-sided markets
Kim, Soo Jin; Pal, Pallavi - 2021
This paper analyzes the generalized quality differentiation model in multi-sided markets with positive externalities, which leads to new insights into the optimal pricing structure of the firm. We find that quality differentiation for users on one side affects not only the side involving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612674
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On self-serving strategic beliefs
Ging-Jehli, Nadja R.; Schneider, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2019
We experimentally study settings where an individual may have an incentive to adopt negative beliefs about another's intentions in order to justify egoistic behavior. Our first study uses a game in which a player can take money from an opponent in order to prevent the opponent from subsequently...
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