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The Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success : Evidence from German Soccer

Hentschel, Sandra - 2014

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed effects, where we are exploiting the high...

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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus

Bakanova, Marina - 2006

We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition economy in which reform and market-orientated institutional development has been limited. We hypothesize that private ownership will enhance company performance, measured in a...

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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler

Goolsbee, Austan - 2015

This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....

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Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity

Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2021

Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...

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Competition and Gender Prejudice : Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?

Weber, Andrea - 2009

According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … longitudinal matched employer-employee data set from Austria. Our results show that firms with strong preferences for …

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Produktionsauslagerungen und Unternehmenserfolg

Görzig, Bernd; Stephan, Andreas; Hennchen, Ottmar - In: Wirtschaft und Statistik : WISTA (2003) 8, pp. 702-707

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The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2010

This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are small on average compared to incumbent exporters....

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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany …

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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity : Are Services Firms Different?

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that …

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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments

Fackler, Daniel - 2012

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …

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