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Commitment or Control? Human Resource Management Practices in Female and Male-Led Businesses
Verheul, Ingrid - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
made between emphasizing commitment or control in the design of HRM practices. To test for gender differences use is made … factors related to the business (e.g., firm size, age, sector) – HRM in female-led firms is more control-oriented than that in …This paper investigates the commitment-orientation of HRM practices in female- and male-led firms. A distinction is …
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A Model for Evaluating Pharmaceutical R&D Investment Projects under Technical and Economic Uncertainties
Pennings, Enrico; Sereno, Sereno, L. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010
This study sets up a compound option approach for evaluating pharmaceutical R&D investment projects in the presence of technical and economic uncertainties. Technical uncertainty is modeled as a Poisson jump that allows for failure and thus abandonment of the drug development. Economic...
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Business Takeover or New Venture? Individual and Environmental Determinants from a Cross-Country Study
Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; van der Zwan, van der … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010
Whereas the determinants of entrepreneurial choice have been thoroughly analyzed in the literature, little is known about the preferred mode of entry into entrepreneurship, such as taking over an existing business or starting a new venture. Using a large international dataset, this study reports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731128
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The Impact of Corporate Venturing on a Firm’s Competence Modes
Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Burgers, Burgers, J.H.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
In this conceptual paper we investigate how corporate venturing influences an organization’s competences. The impact of various types of corporate ventures on the portfolio of strategic options of a firm’s competence modes (Sanchez, 2004a; Sanchez and Heene, 2002) will be assessed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731240
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Rethinking the Dutch Innovation Agenda: Management and Organization Matter Most
Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Volberda, Volberda, H.W. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
In this essay, we challenge the present dominant emphasis in the Dutch Innovation Debate on the creation of technological innovations, the focus on a few core technologies, and the allocation of more financial resources. We argue that managerial capabilities and organizing principles for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731287
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Why New Business Development Projects Fail: Coping with the Differences of Technological versus Market Knowledge
Van Den Bosch, Frans A J; Burgers, Burgers, J.H.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of technological and market knowledge and important project management characteristics, i.e. project autonomy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731292
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A Real Options Perspective On R&D Portfolio Diversification
Pennings, Enrico; van Bekkum, van Bekkum, S.; Smit, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
This paper shows that the conditionality of investment decisions in R&D has a critical impact on portfolio risk, and implies that traditional diversification strategies should be reevaluated when a portfolio is constructed. Real option theory argues that research projects have conditional or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734027
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Explaining Preferences and Actual Involvement in Self-Employment: New Insights into the Role of Gender
Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Grilo, I. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
This paper investigates why women’s self-employment rates are consistently lower than those of men. It has three focal points. It discriminates between the preference for self-employment and actual involvement in self-employment using a two (probit) equation model. It makes a systematic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731095
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Gender Pay Differences in the European Union: Do Higher Wages Make Up For Discrimination?
Verheul, Ingrid; Canton, Canton, E.J.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
This paper explores the role of social interactions at the work floor for understanding gender pay differences in the EU. Using data from the Fourth European Working Conditions Survey, we find that sex similarity of subordinate and supervisor decreases the pay disadvantage for women in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731511
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Human Resource management, Institutionalisation and Organisational Performance
Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F.; Paauwe, Paauwe, J.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002
The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and firm performance has been a hotly debated topic over the … resource management in the Netherlands, using Control versus Commitment HR Theory (Walton, 1985; Arthur, 1994) in combination … industry i.e. Health care, Local Government and Tourism. Empirical results suggest that the effect of HRM is lower in highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837581