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Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014
from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398239
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Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791524
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The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs had no impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282470
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283965
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Measuring Organizational Capital in the New Economy
Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2005
A growing body of literature over the past decade suggests that a firm?s organizational structure/capital can contribute in significant ways to the productive capacity of a firm. But, as with other intangible assets, there is no consensus definition of what this organizational capital is, how to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262635
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The Hold-Down Problem and the Boundaries of the Firm: Lessons from a Hidden Action Model with Endogenous Outside Option
Schnedler, Wendelin; Sunde, Uwe - 2002
This paper offers a rationale for limiting the delegation of (real) authority, which neither relies on insurance arguments nor depends on ownership structure. We analyse a repeated hidden action model in which the actions of a risk neutral agent determine his future outside option. Consequently,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262786
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Who lives in the c-suite? Organizational structure and the division of labor in top management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012
This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the … general managers. Using panel data on senior management positions, we explore the relationship between changes in executive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287681
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The Interplay between Organizational Structure, Culture and Employees’ Socio-Emotional Skills within Their Social Capital
Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Altmann, Jörn; Heshmati, … - 2022
Organization theorists identify organizational social capital as one of the primary building blocks of a potentially powerful resource for improving organizational performance. However, little is known about the impact of the socio-emotional skills of the employees within their social capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351855
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Culture of Trust and Division of Labor
Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - 2015
Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal structure affects its productivity through the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531679
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Culture of Trust and Division of Labor
Meier, Stephan; Stephenson, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal structure affects its productivity through the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265299