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Connective Capital as Social Capital : The Value of Problem-Solving Networks for Team Players in Firms
Ichniowski, Casey - 2010
Traditional human capital theory emphasizes a worker's investment in knowledge. However, when a worker is faced with day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within the firm. When a worker taps into the knowledge of...
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Turbulent Firms, Turbulent Wages?
Comin, Diego - 2009
between firm and wage volatility, we investigate the linkage in three complementary panel data sets, each with its own virtues … and limitations: the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (detailed information on workers, but no information on employers …
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Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
Flabbi, Luca - 2016
We investigate the effects of female executives on gender-specific wage distributions and firm performance. We find that female leadership has a positive impact at the top of the female wage distribution and a negative impact at the bottom. Moreover, the impact of female leadership on firm...
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Globalizing Activities and the Rate of Survival : Panel Data Analysis on Japanese Firms
Kimura, Fukunari; Fujii, Takamune - 2021
This paper conducts a Cox-type survival analysis of Japanese corporate firms using census-coverage data collected by METI. A study of exiting firms confirmed several characteristics of Japanese firms in the 1990s. First, excessive internalization in the corporate structure and activities is...
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Serial Entrepreneurship : Learning by Doing?
Lafontaine, Francine - 2014
in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 …
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Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers : 1984-2001
DiNardo, John E.; Lee, David - 2021
Economic impacts of unionization on employers are difficult to estimate in the absence of large, representative data on establishments with union status information. Estimates are also confounded by selection bias, because unions could organize at highly profitable enterprises that are more...
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Management Ownership and Corporate Performance : an Empirical Analysis
Morck, Randall; Shleifer, Andrei; Vishny, Robert W. - 2021
We investigate the relation between management ownership and corporate performance, as measured by Tobin's Q. In a cross-section of Fortune 500 firms, Tobin's Q first increases and then declines as board of directors holdings rise. For older firms there is weak evidence that Q is lower when a...
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Institutions, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Firm Dynamics : Evidence from Europe
Desai, Mihir A. - 2014
We explore the impact of the institutional environment on the nature of entrepreneurial activity across Europe. Political, legal, and regulatory variables that have been shown to impact capital market development influence entrepreneurial activity in the emerging markets of Europe, but not in...
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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quality and Quantity of Entrepreneurship for 32 Us States, 1988-2014
Guzman, Jorge - 2016
Assessing the state of American entrepreneurship requires not simply counting the quantity but also the initial quality … cycles as a driver of high-growth entrepreneurship, our results highlight the role of economic and institutional conditions …
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Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance
Guzman, Jorge - 2015
A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial … quality distribution. Second, we propose two new economic statistics for the measurement of entrepreneurship: the … Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI) and the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI). We use these indices to offer a …
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