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Stakeholder governance, competition and firm value

Allen, Franklin; Carletti, Elena; Marquez, Robert - 2014

In many countries, the legal system or social norms ensure that firms are stakeholder oriented. We analyze the … advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented firms that are concerned with employees and suppliers compared to … shareholder-oriented firms in a model of imperfect competition. Stakeholder firms are more (less) valuable than shareholder firms …

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Choking under pressure : evidence of the causal effect of audience size on performance

Böheim, René; Grübl, Dominik; Lackner, Mario - 2018

We analyze performance under pressure and estimate the causal effect of audience size on the success of free throws in top-level professional basketball. We use data from the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the seasons 2007/08 through 2015/16. We exploit the exogenous variation in...

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Relative performance feedback to teams

Gjedrem, William Gilje; Kvaløy, Ola - 2018

Between and within firms, work teams compete against each other and receive feedback on how well their team is performing relative to their benchmarks. In this paper we investigate experimentally how teams respond to relative performance feedback (RPF) at team level. We find that when subjects...

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Which peer group to choose? : The effects of relative performance information on employee self-selection and performance

Nieken, Petra; Ressi, Anna - 2022

This paper reports results of two controlled experiments on the behavioural effects of relative performance information (RPI) in different organizational structures. Our baseline study 1 focuses on a centralized organizational structure where employees are exogenously assigned to either a...

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Dynamics of first-time patenting firms

Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid - 2022

This paper investigates firm dynamics in the period before, during, and after an event consisting of a first published patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office merged with data from several business registers covering a period of...

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Worker commitment and establishment performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2021

Using a cross section of matched data from the employee and management questionnaires of the European Company Survey, this paper investigates the determinants of worker commitment and the potential contribution of commitment to establishment performance. An index of worker commitment is...

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Management practices and establishment performance under non-union workplace representation

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Bellmann, Lutz - 2020

This paper brings together two factors deemed important correlates of firm performance: advanced management practices and works councils. The country sample comprises nations where workplace representation is via a works council. The Management Questionnaire of the 2013 European Company Survey...

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Heterogeneous beliefs and the demand for D&O insurance by listed companies

Egger, Peter; Radulescu, Doina; Rees, Ray - 2014

This paper introduces a new rationale for the existence of "Directors' and Officers'" (D&O) insurance. We use a model with volatile stock markets where shareholders design compensation schemes that incentivize managers to stimulate short-term increases in stock prices that do not maximize long...

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Corporate philanthropy and productivity : evidence from an online real effort experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...

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The impact of mandated corporate social responsibility : evidence from India's companies act of 2013

Dharmapala, Dhammika; Khanna, Vikramaditya - 2016

Firms' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity has become the subject of a large literature in recent years. This paper analyzes CSR activity using quasi-experimental variation created by Section 135 of India's Companies Act of 2013, which requires (on a "comply-or-explain" basis) that...

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