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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects
Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include organizational capital accumulation and management practices, financial … empirical successes and shortcomings of current theory. First, models of organizational capital and innovation are broadly … organization and innovation. Second, among theories we analyze, organizational capital and management practices are the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951103
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Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors
Katz, Sharon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term performance. Focusing on a unique sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580828
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Powerful Independent Directors
Morck, Randall; Fogel, Kathy; Ma, Liping - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
directors, their power gauged by social network power centrality measures. Sudden deaths of powerful independent directors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951070
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The Riddle of the Great Pyramids
Morck, Randall - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Large pyramidal family controlled business groups are the predominant form of business organization outside America, Britain, Germany, and Japan. Large pyramidal groups comprising dozens, even hundreds, or listed and unlisted firms place the governance of large swathes of many countries' big...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580045
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Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment
bloom, nicholas; Roberts, John; Liang, James; Ying, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
About 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there are concerns this can lead to "shirking from home." We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000- employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951369
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Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across twenty countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best managed. Firms in...
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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work
bandiera, oriana; Sadun, Raffaella; Prat, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is known about what top executives actually do, and whether it differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721448
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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires
Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of permanent replacement workers by Bridgestone/Firestone in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of an excess number of defective tires....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720754
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The Path to the Top: Changes in the Attributes and Careers of Corporate Executives, 1980-2001
Hamori, Monika; Cappelli, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
The analyses below compare the career histories and personal characteristics of the executives in the top ranks of the world's largest and most stable business operations, the Fortune 100, between 1980 and 2001. To our knowledge, there have been no prior studies of contemporary changes in the...
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The New Empirical Economics of Management
bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
. Competition, governance, human capital and informational frictions help account for the variation in management. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772577