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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002
This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...
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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278807
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What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?
McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...
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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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For benevolence and for self-interest: Social and commercial entrepreneurial activity across nations
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Stephan, Ute - 2011
We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances … commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990 …) productive entrepreneurship and that it will therefore compete at the individual level for resources with commercial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278763
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For Benevolence and for Self-Interest: Social and Commercial Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Stephan, Ute - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances … commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990 …) productive entrepreneurship and that it will therefore compete at the individual level for resources with commercial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149161
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Other-regarding preferences and leadership styles
Kocher, Martin G.; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sutter, Matthias - 2009
We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. We find that leaders who prefer efficiency or report high levels of selfishness are more likely to exercise an autocratic...
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles
Kocher, Martin G.; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. We find that leaders who prefer efficiency or report high levels of selfishness are more likely to exercise an autocratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703650
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A theory of expert leadership
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012
How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends conceptual work with recent empirical evidence. It...
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Expert leaders in a fast-moving environment
Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - 2012
This paper is an attempt to understand the effects of leaders on organizational performance. We argue for an expert leader model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge and industry experience. After controlling for confounding...
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