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intervention also improved worker satisfaction and reduced stress levels, without affecting the quality of the loan officers …' portfolios. We show that including branch managers (the supervisors of the loan officers) in the intervention was central in …
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managerial stress, also relative to known health risks …
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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....
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managers. Employment relations can be either tough (where workers are monitored intensively and obtain few rents, and managers … workplace favor exchange). Both workers and managers also exert effort in providing community benefits. The threat of losing … access to community benefits can motivate managers to keep employment soft; conversely, the threat of losing future …
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large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality …
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Tracking the movement of top managers across firms, we document the importance of manager-specific fixed effects in … managers' corporate strategies, such as their preferences for internal growth and financial conservatism. Managers' early …
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In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), we created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy decisions both as individuals and in groups. In this study, we manipulate the size and leadership structure of...
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We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...
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Using a survey of 800 CEOs in 22 emerging economies we show that CEOs' management styles and philosophy vary with the control rights and involvement of the owning family and founder: CEOs of firms with greater family involvement have more hierarchical management, and feel more accountable to...
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The US Civil War provides researchers a unique opportunity to identify wartime leaders and thus to test theories of leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able became wartime leaders, that leading by example from the...
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