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Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs
Chi, Wei - 2010
This study uses a 10-year longitudinal database on U.S. manufacturing establishments to analyze the dynamics of the adoption and termination of employee involvement programs (EI). We show that firms' use of EI has not grown continuously, but rather introduce and terminate EI policies in ways...
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Class Struggle Inside the Firm : A Study of German Codetermination
Gorton, Gary B. - 2010
Who should control the firm? What should be the firm's objective function? If contracts are incomplete, then the group of input providers that most needs their interests protected should be allocated control rights to the firm. Existing theories argue that the suppliers of capital are most in...
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Labor in the Boardroom
Jäger, Simon - 2019
We estimate the wage effects of shared governance, or codetermination, in the form of a mandate of one third of corporate board seats going to worker representatives. We study a reformin Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for stock corporations incorporated after August 1994, while it...
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The Anatomy of Employee Involvement and its Effects on Firms and Workers
Freeman, Richard B.; Kleiner, Morris M.; Ostroff, Cheri - 2021
A great many American firms have organized workplace decision-making in new ways to get employees more involved in their jobs -- using policies like self-directed work teams, total equality management, quality circles, profit-sharing, and diverse other programs. This paper uses a firm-based data...
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How to Compete : The Impact of Workplace Practices and Information Technology on Productivity
Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2021
Using data from a unique nationally representative sample of businesses, the Educational Quality of the Workforce National Employers Survey (EQW-NES), matched with the Bureau of the Census' Longitudinal Research Database (LRD), we examine the impact of workplace practices, information technology...
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Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations
Appelbaum, Eileen; Hunter, Larry W. - 2021
This paper reviews workforce participation in strategic decisions - those that affect the basic direction of the company - when workforce interests are represented collectively through unions. We consider the problem of corporate governance and review the rationale for what we term strategic...
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The Recent Transformation of Participatory Employment Practices in Japan
Kato, Takao - 2022
Using both quantitative data from national surveys and qualitative data from our own field research, this paper provides evidence on changes in participatory employment practices in Japan during the economic slowdown in the 1990s. Overall, consistent with the complementarity of such practices...
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Innovation and Foreign Ownership
Guadalupe, Maria - 2010
product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting new machines and organizational practices) and adopt foreign … technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that … jointly explains the observed selection process and the innovation decisions. Further, we show in the data that innovation on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135408
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Innovation and Welfare : Results from Joint Estimation of Production and Demand Functions
Jaumandreu, Jordi - 2010
that the total current period (static) welfare gains of introducing a process or a product innovation are, on average …
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On the Timing and Efficiency of Creative Destruction
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010
process innovation. There are strong reasons why an efficient economy ought to concentrate both job creation and destruction …
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