Spanish Abstract: El poder en las organizaciones puede manifestarse de manera visible a través de la “organización formal” por medio de una estructura jerárquica, o en la “organización informal” mediante las relaciones entre sus individuos sin tener en cuenta aquella estructura...

The present article intends to study the profile of the most valued companies regarding their labour performance in Spain. It also tries to determine the influence that this profile's characteristics have on the overall rating. For that purpose, we analyse the 100 companies, taken from the...

In this study we focus on differences in careers and wage development between white-collar workers. We are interested in the questions of which factors contribute to these differences and at what stage of the career they occur. Furthermore, we investigate the wage effects of the different types...

This paper makes a review of the literature on the intellectual property management (IPM) in organizations. The sources of the documentation reviewed are Scopus, Emerald, SciELO and SSRN indexed papers. This exploration includes works published from 2003 given that Hanel (2004) developed a...

Using political mobility data for 189 leaders from China’s central state-owned enterprise (CSOEs) in 2008-2011, for the first time this paper investigates the mechanism of political turnover for leaders as quasi-government officers in CSOEs. We find that: (1) the likelihood of promotion of...

Our research is aimed at finding the optimization of the service provided to citizens, in order to avoid breakdowns in certain administrative services compared to other services that have low levels of activity. The algorithm applied (Branch & Bound) detects what branches of the tree...

Tutkimuksessa selvitetään nuorten naisten ja miesten urakehityseroja työuran ensimmäisten vuosien aikana. Kuvauksellisessa analyysissä vertaillaan naisten ja miesten ensimmäisen tehtävän vaativuustasoja sekä työmarkkinaliikkuvuutta. Ekonometrinen osuus koostuu ylennyksen ja...

Suomalaisyritysten toimitusjohtajista ja hallitusten puheenjohtajista alle kymmenesosa sekä hallituksen jäsenistä alle neljäsosa on naisia. Laajaan yritysaineistoon perustuvan empiirisen regressioanalyysin perusteella havaitaan, että naistoimitusjohtoinen yritys on keskimäärin noin...

The main aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of human resource practices on business results. This study will follow the universalist and contingency approaches propounded in the literature (Delery and Doty, 1996; McMahan, Virick and Wright, 1999) in order to confirm their validity in the...

Because the interests of the manager and the organization are not necessarily coincident, the principal-agent problem arises in the process of recruitment. The standard of employment and the motive in the manager's mind may influence the result of recruitment. The present paper analyzes a game...