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Can HRM Improve Schools' Performance?
Bryson, Alex - 2018
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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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132524
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Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace : Evidence from Personnel Data
Bandiera, Oriana - 2011
We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace … workers managed. We find that when managers are paid fixed wages, they favor workers to whom they are socially connected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756322
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The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance
Forth, John - 2018
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use...
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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 turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …
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Female-Led Firms : Performance and Risk Attitudes
Parrotta, Pierpaolo - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....
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Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover : The Case of Ukraine
Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …
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Performance Effects of Appointing Other Firms' Executive Directors to Corporate Boards : An Analysis of UK Firms
Muravyev, Alexander - 2014
positive relationship between the presence of these non-executive directors and the accounting performance of the appointing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058307
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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms : New Evidence
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2021
to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324940
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Managerial Performance of a Female-Owned and Home-Based Firm
Oladipo, Oluwasheyi; Platt, Katarzyna Anna; Shim, Hyoung - 2021
Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the differences come from, and how to mitigate them. This...
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