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Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002
It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262244
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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262532
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The Survival of Unique Corporate Cultures
Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2016
In this paper we identify two situations that can lead a firm to hire an executive who supports a corporate culture that differs from the firm's current culture. In the first case, there is similarity between the firm's culture and that of the candidate and in the second case, executives who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479391
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Field Experiments in Strategy Research
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Findley, Michael; Jensen, Nathan M.; … - 2014
Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical techniques are not sufficient to establish causal effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481608
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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
Kosfeld, Michael; Siemens, Ferdinand von - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value to a firm, yet the level of worker cooperation often varies between individual firms. We show that these differences can be the result of labor market competition if workers have heterogeneous preferences and preferences are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703792
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Field Experiments in Strategy Research
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Findley, Michael; Jensen, Nathan M.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical techniques are not sufficient to establish causal effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105062
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Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566784
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004
We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union. Employment growth displays substantial increase in heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262088
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Privatization discontent and its determinants: evidence from Latin America
Checchi, Daniele; Florio, Massimo; Carrera, Jorge - 2005
Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this … countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a privatization dataset on the same countries, including sectoral … variables as controls. Our main finding is that disagreement with privatization is more likely when the respondent is poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267576
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Enterprise restructuring in Belarus
Bakanova, Marina; Estrin, Saul; Pelipas, Igor; … - 2006
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267876