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Organizational Change in French Manufacturing : What Do We Learn From Firm Representatives and From Their Employees?

Greenan, Nathalie - 1999

In this paper, we use a French matched employer-employee survey, the COI survey, conducted in 1997, to describe the general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore the methodological issues associated with the building...

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Reorganization

Hall, Robert E. - 1999

One of the productive activities engaging the work force is reorganizing. When factors of production are better matched, productivity is higher. The probabilistic matching model of Diamond, Mortensen, and others provides a way to make the idea of reorganization precise. Because the flow of...

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On the Predictability of Tax-Rate Changes

Barro, Robert J. - 1981

Some previous analyses have suggested that the smoothing of tax rates over time would be a desirable guide for public debt management. One implication of this viewpoint is that future changes in tax rates would be unpredictable based on current information. This proposition is tested by...

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Trade, FDI, and the Organization of Firms

Helpman, Elhanan - 2006

investment patterns, and the reorganization of production across national borders. Although traditional trade theory has much to … are organizational features, such as sourcing strategies. But the theory has gone beyond the individual firm, studying the …

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How Workers Fare When Employers Innovate

Black, Sandra E. - 2003

Complementing existing work on firm organizational structure and productivity, this paper examines the impact of organizational change on workers. We find evidence that employers do appear to compensate at least some of their workers for engaging in high performance workplace practices. We also...

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Creative Destruction and Development : Institutions, Crises, and Restructuring

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000

There is increasing empirical evidence that creative destruction, driven by experimentation and the adoption of new products and processes when investment is sunk, is a core mechanism of development. Obstacles to this process are likely to be obstacles to the progress in standards of living....

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Organizational Flexibility and Employment Dynamics at Young and Old Plants

Campbell, Jeffrey R. - 1998

There are significant differences in the dynamics of employment over the business cycle between young and old manufacturing plants. Young plants are more sensitive to aggregate disturbances, and they respond to them along different margins. We interpret these differences as reflecting greater...

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The "Fundamental Transformation" in Macroeconomics

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 1996

When factors enter into joint-production, they typically develop a degree of specificity with respect to each other. It is well known that, when combined with contracting difficulties, specificity gives rise to a Williamsonian 'Fundamental Transformation' from an ex-ante competitive relationship...

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Reorganization or Liquidation : Bankruptcy Choice and Firm Dynamics

Corbae, Dean - 2017

In this paper, we ask how bankruptcy law affects the financial decisions of corporations and its implications for firm dynamics. According to current U.S. law, firms have two bankruptcy options: Chapter 7 liquidation and Chapter 11 reorganization. Using Compustat data, we first document capital...

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Federalism and Takeover Law : The Race to Protect Managers from Takeovers

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 2000

respect to takeovers, states have incentives to produce rules that excessively protect incumbent managers. The development of … state takeover law, we argue, is consistent with our theory. States have adopted antitakeover statutes that have little … policy basis, and, more importantly, they have provided managers with a wider and more open-ended latitude to engage in …

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