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Reputation as insurance : how reputation moderates public backlash following a company's decision to profiteer

Arroyos-Calvera, Danae; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2022

We examine whether a company's corporate reputation gained from their CSR activities and a company leader's reputation …

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So many rocket scientists, so few marketing clerks : estimating the effects of economic reform on occupational mobility in Estonia

Campos, Nauro (contributor); … - 2008

Why do workers change occupations? This paper investigates occupational mobility and its determinants following a large unexpected shock (communism's collapse in 1989.) Our calculations show that from 1989 to 1995 between 35 and 50 percent of Estonian workers changed occupations (classified at...

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Creative destruction and transition : the effects of firm entry and exit on productivity growth in Estonia

Masso, Jaan (contributor); Eamets, Raul (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Boards of directors in Russian publicly traded companies in 1998-2014 : structure, dynamics and performance effects

Muravyev, Alexander - 2016

This paper provides new evidence on the structure, dynamics and performance effects of corporate boards in publicly traded companies in Russia. It takes advantage of a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded in the RTS/MICEX/MOEX over...

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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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Financial distress and the role of management in micro and small-sized firms

Alexandre, Fernando; Cruz, Sara; Portela, Miguel - 2020

In this paper, we focus on managerial characteristics of micro and small-sized firms. Using linked employer-employee data on the Portuguese economy for the 2010-2018 period, we estimate the impact of management teams' human capital on the probability of firms becoming financially distressed and...

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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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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility : evidence from China

Zu, Liangrong (contributor); Song, Lina (contributor) - 2008

responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms' productive characteristics influence managers' attitudes towards their CSR rating, and … whether their values in favour of CSR are positively correlated to firms' economic performance. Although a large proportion of … respondents express a favourable view of CSR and a willingness to participate in socially responsible activities, we find that the …

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Employment protection, workforce mix and firm performance

Ardito, Chiara; Berton, Fabio; Pacelli, Lia; Passerini, … - 2021

We measure the impact of employment protection reduction in an uncertain framework on firms' hires and performance, exploiting the Italian 2015 Jobs Act. Results indicate that firms (1) stabilize workforce mainly through contract transformations of low-tenure and low-human-capital incumbent...

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Gender gaps in performance : evidence from young lawyers

Azmat, Ghazala; Ferrer, Rosa - 2015

This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using transparent measures that are widely used and comparable across firms: the number of hours billed to...

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