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Sluggish institutions in a dynamic world : can unions and industrial competition coexist?
Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2007
During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...
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Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy
Block, Jörn; Kohn, Karsten; Miller, Danny; Ullrich, Katrin - 2014
Many start-ups chose to compete with incumbent firms using one of two generic strategies: cost leadership or differentiation. Our study demonstrates how this choice depends on whether the startup was founded out of necessity. Our results, based on a representative data set of 4,568 German...
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Competitive strategy, performance appraisal and firm results
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2016
In this study, we address the relationship between performance appraisal and competitive strategy, as well as the impact of this relationship on firm performance. The results indicate that the adoption of developmental performance appraisal and the use of administrative performance appraisal are...
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Entrepreneurship Is dangerously obsessed with growth and incompatible with current visions of a post-growth society
Naudé, Wim - 2024
Entrepreneurship scholarship and policy are based on the myth of firm growth as imperative and the related myth of perpetual economic growth. This paper takes issue with the obsession with this growth myth, discussing the dangers it poses. Green growth and sustainable entrepreneurship are...
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Telecommunications dynamics, output and employment
Jungmittag, Andre (contributor);  … - 2006
In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …
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Political institutions and the development of telecommunications
Andonova, Veneta (contributor);  … - 2007
It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …
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Competition reform and household welfare: a microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45...
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Undocumented worker employment and firm survival
Brown, J. David (contributor);  … - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
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Elasticity of supply to the firm and the business cycle
Depew, Briggs; Sorensen, Todd - 2011
A body of recent empirical work has found strong evidence that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite, implying that firms may have wage setting power. However, these studies capture only snapshots of the parameter. We study this parameter over a period that provides substantial...
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A retrospective look at rescuing and restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan; Krueger, Alan B. - 2015
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
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