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Is Ethical Money Sensitive to Past Returns? The Case of Portfolio Constraints and Persistence of Islamic and Socially Responsible Funds

Abdelsalam, Omneya; Duygun, Meryem; Matallín-Sáez, … - Departament d'Economia, Universitat Jaume I - 2014

We analyse the performance persistence and survivorship bias of Islamic and Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds …-financial attributes influence performance and performance persistence. We propose a refined version of the procedures used in the … literature based on a cross-sectional test to control for significance of the recursive portfolios according to past performance …

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Capacites d'innovation : comparaison de l'emploi en sciences et en genie dans les villes canadiennes et americaines

Brown, W. Mark; Beckstead, Desmond - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

-2001. Cette comparaison donne une idee de la performance des villes canadiennes relativement a leurs analogues americaines au …

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Changements observes au niveau de la diversification des entreprises du secteur canadien de la fabrication (de 1973 a 1997)

Beckstead, Desmond; Caves, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

Le present document de recherche etudie les changements observes au niveau de la diversification des entreprises et des usines depuis le debut des annees 70 dans le secteur canadien de la fabrication. Il revele qu'il y a eu, en general, une augmentation de la specialisation tant des entreprises...

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Changes in the Diversification of Canadian Manufacturing Firms and Plants (1973-1997): A Move to Specialization

Beckstead, Desmond; Caves, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

This paper studies changes in diversification of firms and plants since the early 1970s in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It finds that there has been a general increase in specialization of both firms and plants. Firms have been continuously reducing the span of industries in which they...

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Human Resource management, Institutionalisation and Organisational Performance

Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F.; Paauwe, Paauwe, J.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and firm performance has been a hotly debated topic over the …

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Challenging (Strategic) Human Resource management Theory

Paauwe, Paauwe, J.; Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

To fully understand the relationship between human resource management and performance in different contexts, we are in … policies in a specific company. In this way the paper broadens the present HRM and Performance debate by explicitly taking into …

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Employee Perception on Commitment Oriented Work Systems

van der Wiele, Ton; Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

Human resource management (HRM) does matter! Prior empirical research, summarized and classified in the work of Delery and Doty (1996), Guest (1997) and Boselie et al. (2000), suggests significant impact of HRM on the competitive advantage of organizations. The mainstream research on this topic...

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Human Resource Management and Performance

Boselie, Boselie, J.P.P.E.F.; Paauwe, Paauwe, J.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000

The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and performance of the firm has been a hot debated topic in … performance is in a Dutch setting mitigated by institutions and stakeholders inside and outside the organization. …

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Looking Awkward When Winning and Foolish When Losing: Inequity Aversion and Performance in the Field

Torgler, Benno; Schaffner, Markus; Frey, Bruno S.; … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008

performance in a real competitive environment with real tasks and real incentives. …

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The Power of Positional Concerns

Torgler, Benno; Schmidt, Sascha L.; Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008

performance worsens. Moreover, the larger the income differences, the stronger positional concern effects are observable. We also …

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