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Organization Context and Human Resource Management in the Small Firm
Kok, Jan de; Uhlaner, Lorraine M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and humanresource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on anintegration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutionaltheory, transaction cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255647
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Organization Context and Human Resource Management in the Small Firm
Kok, Jan de; Uhlaner, Lorraine M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2001
This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and human resource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on an integration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutional theory, transaction cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136951
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The Value of an Educated Population for an Individual's Entrepreneurship Success
Millan, Jose Maria; Congregado, Emilio; Roman, Concepcion; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship …, including survival and the probability that an entrepreneur starts employing personnel and maintains as an employer for a longer … period of time. An implication of our novel finding is that entrepreneurship and higher education policies should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008916007
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The Value of an Educated Population for an Individual's Entrepreneurship Success
Millan, Jose Maria; Congregado, Emilio; Roman, Concepcion; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
> Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance … survival and the probability that an entrepreneur starts employing personnel and maintains as an employer for a longer period … of time. An implication of our novel finding is that entrepreneurship and higher education policies should be considered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256412
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Collective Bargaining under Non-binding Contracts
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutral employees negotiate over wages in a non-binding contract setting. Our main result is the equivalence between the non-binding collective equilibrium wage-employment contract and the equilibrium contract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255786
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Micro-Evidence on the Determinants of Innovation in The Netherlands: The Relative Importance of Absorptive Capacity and Agglomeration Externalities
Smit, Martijn J.; Abreu, Maria A.; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This paper employs firm-level data to analyze the relative importance of firm characteristics and agglomeration externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to estimate the probability that a firm will introduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256008
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The Economics of First-Contract Mediation
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto efficient and proves immune to the insider-outsider problem of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256091
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Intention-Based Reciprocity and the Hidden Costs of Control
Siemens, Ferdinand von - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
Empirical research suggests that - rather than improving incentives - exerting control can reduce workers' performance by eroding motivation. The present paper shows that intention-based reciprocity can cause such motivational crowding-out if individuals differ in their propensity for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201127
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Collective Bargaining under Non-binding Contracts
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutral employees negotiate over wages in a non-binding contract setting. Our main result is the equivalence between the non-binding collective equilibrium wage-employment contract and the equilibrium contract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867502
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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance
Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838575