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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794077
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Resource allocation and firm scope
Friebel, Guido (contributor); Raith, Michael (contributor) - 2006
We develop a theory of firm scope in which integrating two firms into one facilitates the allocation of resources, but … leads to weaker incentives for effort, compared with non-integration. Our theory makes minimal assumptions about the … efficiently, the integrated firm's top management must obtain information about the possible use of resources from division …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003464116
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360091
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502553
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Give and you shall receive : the emergence of welfare-reducing reciprocity
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Vorster, Melissa - 2015
We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and the effectiveness of institutional interventions to curtail this reciprocal alliance behaviour. In each of the 25 rounds of our experiments, a player (the 'allocator') nominates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513328
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Is transparency an anti-corruption myth?
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Schaffner, Markus - 2017
We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by implementing player identification via photographs. In our experimental design players have an incentive to form bilateral alliances in which they favour their partner at the expense of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641390
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Technological capabilities and patterns of cooperation of UK firms : a regional investigation
Iammarino, Simona; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2009
This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831766
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Determinants and policy simulation of firms cooperation in innovation
Heshmati, Almas; Lenz-Cesar, Flávio - 2013
This research introduces an agent-based simulation model representing the dynamic processes of cooperative R&D in the manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 and captured in a multivariate probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766256
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Do inventors talk to strangers? : on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224594
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Time is on my side : relational contracts and aggregate welfare
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Plüger, Michael - 2018
total factor productivity. We provide empirical evidence in line with the predictions of our theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810338