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Increasing interest in voucher programs and privatizing public schools reveals a commonly-held belief that private schools are better able to produce a quality education. While state and national standards do not directly affect these schools, their private control yields strong student...
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We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace … workers managed. We find that when managers are paid fixed wages, they favor workers to whom they are socially connected …
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-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a … managers, but it is consistent with such claims and suggests that this area is now an important one for systematic future … research. -- organizational performance ; expert leaders ; hospitals ; physicians ; professional managers …
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efficiency of use of factor inputs, and hence on output. This is a departure from stylized approaches that focus on the impact on …
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This paper uses a novel firm level data set to investigate the impact of a unique quality management practice on the production and productivity of a large-scale garments manufacturer in Pakistan. The analysis provides evidence that production complexity is an important element in determining...
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efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large … ; comparative efficiency ; viability …
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This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....
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Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the differences come from, and how to mitigate them. This...
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The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has not been examined by the emerging literature on managerial incentives in transition economies. This paper is the first attempt to fill this important gap in the literature. The...
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ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …. Overall, our analysis suggests that corporate governance in Ukraine operates with a certain degree of efficiency, despite the …
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