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Who lives in the c-suite? : organizational structure and the division of labor in top management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012
team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments - which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through … ; diversification …
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Excess leverage and productivity growth in emerging economies : is there a threshold effect?
Coricelli, Fabrizio; Driffield, Nigel L.; Pal, Sarmistha; … - 2010
The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European countries, who are at different levels of financial market development. We hypothesize a non-linear relationship in that moderate leverage could boost growth while very high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944314
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Turbulence, firm decentralization and growth in bad times
Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 2017
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...
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Finance and growth at the firm level : evidence from SBA loans
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2015
We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309136
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Culture of trust and division of labor
Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - 2015
Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal structure affects its productivity through the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper...
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The interplay between organizational structure, culture and employees' socio-emotional skills within their social capital
Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Altmann, Jörn; Heshmati, … - 2022
Organization theorists identify organizational social capital as one of the primary building blocks of a potentially powerful resource for improving organizational performance. However, little is known about the impact of the socio-emotional skills of the employees within their social capital...
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Stages of diversification in a neoclassical world
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
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Do employee share owners face too much financial risk?
Kruse, Douglas L.; Blasi, Joseph R.; Weltmann, Dan; … - 2019
higher self-rated knowledge of personal finances, and are more likely to understand the value of diversification. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002671
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Marshallian vs Jacobs effects : which one is stronger? : evidence for Russia unemployment dynamics
Demidova, Olʹga Anatolʹevna; Kolyagina, Alena; … - 2018
This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958935
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How do humans respond to huge financial losses?
Mujcic, Redzo; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2022
points. In terms of proportional losses, a loss of 50% or more of the remaining cash endowment increases diversification … endowment, previous diversification strategy, relative difficulty of questions, the ability level of participants, and other …
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