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Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012

How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one … sufficient. Expert leaders are those with (1) inherent knowledge, acquired through technical expertise combined with high ability … performance through knowledge-based strategy, by acting as a standard bearer, by creating the right environment for core workers …

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Ambidexterity, external knowledge and performance in knowledge-intensive firms

Vrontis, Demetris; Thrassou, Alkis; Santoro, Gabriele; … - In: The journal of technology transfer 42 (2017) 2, pp. 374-388

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Unions, training, and firm performance

Addison, John T. (contributor); … - 2008

The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It...

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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...

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Do foreign experts increase the productivity of domestic firms?

Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, … - 2011

While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their importance for domestic firms. To guide our empirical analysis, we first set up a simple theoretical model to show how foreign experts may impact on the productivity and wages...

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Broadband diffusion and firm performance in rural areas : quasi-experimental evidence

Canzian, Giulia; Poy, Samuele; Schüller, Simone - 2015

This article analyzes the causal impact of advanced broadband accessibility on firm performance. We exploit a unique local policy intervention of a staged broadband infrastructure installation across rural municipalities in the Province of Trento (Italy), generating a source of exogenous...

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Entrepreneurial choices of initial human capital endowments and new venture success

Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van; Folta, Timothy B.; … - 2016

The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founder's choice of the initial...

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Expert leaders in a fast-moving environment

Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - 2012

leader" model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge … and industry experience. After controlling for confounding variables, teams led by leaders with extensive knowledge of the …

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The long awaited reform of the German Works Constitution Act

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

establishment size. Given the limitations of the evidence, which are shown to have relaxed the constraints on legislative innovation …

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Unions and establishment performance : evidence from the British workplace industrial/employee relations surveys

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2002

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s - and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon. In...

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