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The impact of management practices on SME performance
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980579
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The impact of management practices on SME performance
Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 … business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use formal management practices than larger firms, but that such … returns are most apparent for those SMEs that invest in human resource management practices, such as training and performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814913
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Spillovers and Substitutability in Production
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex - 2019
Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005953
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Creative Disruption: Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296506
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Spillovers and substitutability in production
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex - 2019
Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996292
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Spillovers and Substitutability in Production
Papps, Kerry L. - 2019
Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870242
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Creative Disruption : Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241098
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Creative disruption : technology innovation, labour demand and the pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470541
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Do temporary agency workers affect workplace performance?
Bryson, Alex - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 39 (2013) 2, pp. 131-138
Using nationally representative workplace data we find the use of temporary agency workers (TAW) is positively associated with financial performance in the British private sector and weakly associated with higher sales per employee. However TAW is not associated with value added per employee....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010865943
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Do temporary agency workers affect workplace performance?
Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Using nationally representative workplace data we find the use of temporary agency workers (TAW) is positively associated with financial performance in the British private sector and weakly associated with higher sales per employee. However TAW is not associated with value added per employee....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126609