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-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …
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Do "Anglo-Saxon" management practices generate higher productivity only at the expense of lousy work-life balance (WLB … tool that companies can use to raise productivity. We try to shed some empirical light on these issues using an innovative … the optimistic "winwin" view that work-life balance improves productivity in its own right. Rather we find support for a …
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The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US "productivity miracle" is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
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We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from more than 900 medium sized manufacturing firms across Europe and the US. Our measures of managerial practices are strongly associated with several measures of firm level performance. Management practices display...
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In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to construct instrumental variables for market...
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In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes … practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity and the main economic … analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results (from micro-econometric studies …
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The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a...
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Do “Anglo-Saxon” management practices generate higher productivity only at the expense of lousy work-life balance (WLB … tool that companies can use to raise productivity. We try to shed some empirical light on these issues using an innovative … the optimistic “winwin” view that work-life balance improves productivity in its own right. Rather we find support for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071101
and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm … identification of the productivity effects of organizational practices remain a challenge for future research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071170
The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071454