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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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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor); … - 2008

Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging market economies to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using recent data on firms in 27 transition economies, we test for the effects of globalization through the impact of increased competition and...

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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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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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An evaluation of the employment effects of barriers to outsourcing

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei - 2011

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs …

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Rising wages : has China lost its global labor advantage?

Yang, Dennis Tao; Chen, Vivian; Monarch, Ryan - 2010

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions. Since the late 1990s, the wages of state-owned...

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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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When does FDI have positive spillovers? : evidence from 17 transition market economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2013

We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...

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When does FDI have positive spillovers? : Evidence from 17 emerging market economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor); … - 2007

We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). Providing evidence from a larger...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561639

Help in a foreign land : internationalized banks and firms' export

Brancati, Emanuele - 2022

The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …

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