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productivity, but they also underscore the risks of quantity-based incentives where quality is important …
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Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom …
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This paper explores theoretically and empirically potentially important yet often-neglected linkage between task coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling of HRMPs (Human Resource Management Practices). In so doing, we also provide fresh insights on the...
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with the size of production units. These distortions lead to sharp reductions in plant productivity and the fraction of … are critical in accounting for the differences in size distribution between the U.S. and Japan …
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The subject of offshoring and productivity has not yet received the attention it deserves. Here I propose a simple … framework for estimating the contribution of these strategies to the growth rate of labor productivity from a time … should be interpreted with caution yet clearly suggest that offshoring can improve labor productivity in the Semiconductors …
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This paper explores theoretically and empirically potentially important yet often-neglectedlinkage between task coordination within the organization and the structure of organizationand bundling of HRMPs (Human Resource Management Practices). In so doing, we alsoprovide fresh insights on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939754
This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within workplaces in the corporate sector is our focus. This family-run group represents nationally about 26% of workplaces and 14% of employment. We find that employees in this group...
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and total factor productivity during the first years after the experiment. These results are consistent with the idea that …
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We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
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Evidence on schools' performance is confined to comparisons across schools, usually based on value-added measures. We adopt an alternative approach comparing schools to observationally equivalent workplaces in the rest of the British economy using measures of workplace performance that are...
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