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Firms' Global Engagement and Management Practices
Görg, Holger - 2017
related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of … management practices in Germany, we calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013). These indicate how … structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates …
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HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces : Evidence from the 2004 WERS
Siebert, Stanley - 2011
This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121548
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Employment Policies, Hiring Practices and Firm Performance
Blasco, Sylvie - 2012
In this paper we investigate how active labour market policy programmes affect firms' hiring strategies and, eventually, firms' performance. We focus on counseling and monitoring which may reduce search costs for employers, but which may have ambiguous effect on the employer-employee matching...
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Management of Knowledge Workers
Hvide, Hans K. - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge …
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Incentive Pay and Performance : Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm
Bogaard, Hein - 2013
We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern HRM policies in an emerging market context. We have branch-level data and use our knowledge of the process that led to the adoption of the reforms to implement two estimators...
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Can HRM Improve Schools' Performance?
Bryson, Alex - 2018
using measures of workplace performance that are common across all workplaces. We focus on the role played by management …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926696
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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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Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover : Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data
Cottini, Elena - 2009
delegation to workers by management. As such, our evidence lends support to those who advocate the use of HIWPs for those firms …
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Gender Promotion Gaps : Career Aspirations and Workplace Discrimination
Azmat, Ghazala - 2020
Using a nationally representative longitudinal survey of lawyers in the U.S., we document a sizeable gap between men and women in their early aspirations to become law firm partners, despite similar early investments and educational characteristics. This aspiration gap can explain a large part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843169
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HRM and Small-Firm Employee Motivation : Before and after the Recession
Bryson, Alex - 2017
A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM … characterizes 'high performance work systems' (HWPS) and 'strategic human resource management' (SHRM). Although the HPWS effect on …
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