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Using Your Ties to Get a Worse Job? The Differential Effects of Social Networks on Quality of Employment in Colombia
Deguilhem, Thibaud - 2018
This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...
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Corporate Governance and Bank Performance: Evidence from Macedonia
Fidanoski, Filip; Mateska, Vesna; Simeonovski, Kiril - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The role of banks is integral to the economic development of any country. Given the renewed attention on the corporate governance in banks with the global financial crises, this paper investigates the relevance of board size, board composition and CEO qualities in the banks and their...
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Banks’ centrality in corporate interlock networks: evidences in Italy
Farina, Vincenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
and that centrality in the network enhances financial performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837017
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Corporate Governance Reforms, Interlocking Directorship and Company Performance in Italy
Drago, Carlo; Millo, Francesco; Ricciuti, Roberto; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We analyze the effects of corporate governance reforms on interlocking directorship (ID), and we assess the relationship between interlocking directorships and company performance for the main Italian firms listed on the Italian stock exchange over 1998-2007. We use a unique dataset that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109267
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Corporate Governance and Firm Performance: Results from Greek Firms
Toudas, Kanellos; Karathanassis, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper, we construct a Governance Index for a sample of Greek companies quoted on the Athens Stock Exchange. We then classify firms, using each firm governance index, into three governance portfolios. Furthermore, the Fama and French model, extended to include a momentum variable, is...
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Firm age and performance
Loderer, Claudio; Waelchli, Urs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
As firms grow older, their profitability seems to decline. We first document this phenomenon and show that it is very robust. Then we offer two non-exclusive explanations of why firms may age. First, corporate aging could reflect a cementation of organizational rigidities over time. Consistent...
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Государственные пакеты акций в российских компаниях: происхождение, типы и влияние на результаты деятельности...
Muravyev, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper studies the impact of federal state shareholdings on the performance of Russian companies. It differs from most similar studies in two respects. Firstly, it focuses on mixed ownership companies rather than conventional state enterprises. Secondly, it distinguishes between several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765637
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Relationship between Corporate Governance Indicators and Firm Value: A Case Study of Karachi Stock Exchange
Javed, Attiya Y.; Iqbal, Robina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We investigated whether differences in quality of firm-level corporate governance can explain the firm-level performance in a cross-section of companies listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. Therefore, we analysed the relationship between firm-level value as measured by Tobin’s Q and total...
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Culture as an individual process: Deficits of national cultural theories in management of cultural diversity
Lenz, Rainer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Most prevalent theories in cross cultural management reduce the variability of individual relations to one single category, the national culture. Based on the assumption that the national cultural values determine individual behavior the individual’s behavior in different national cultures...
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Diversity and multiculturalism as a strategy for strengthening Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the global market
Perumal, Koshy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
increasingly realising vast diversity within the global market and devising strategies to make the most out of it. Why is … operations of a business? How are large corporates managing diversity? What are the lessons for Indian Micro, Small and Medium … largest employment generation sector in the country. But how far MSMEs are equipped to manage worksite diversity? This paper …
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