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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 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use...
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Explaining Growth Differences across Firms: The Interplay between Innovation and Management Practices
Romano, Livio - 2018
This paper provides first empirical evidence of the joint effects that innovation strategies and human resource …-innovators and of firms pursuing relatively simple innovation strategies, centered around the acquisition of embodied technology. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012055302
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Firm’s innovation activities across ASEAN countries: Examining the impacts of management experience, management practices and the moderating role of female CEOs
Do, Bich Ngoc; Nguyen, Van Dung; Le, Minh Thi Hong; Do, … - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16
This study investigates the roles of management experience and management practices towards innovation activities … across ASEAN nations. Notably, the moderating role of the female CEOs in the management experience management practices-innovation … innovation activities, particularly product innovation. Furthermore, this paper highlights the positive moderating role of female …
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Trust, Competition and Innovation: Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers
Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2015
We develop a simple theoretical model of a long term buyer-supplier relationship with non-contractible buyer specific R&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement strategies. We address these issues empirically...
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Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter?
Ishengoma, Esther K.; Kappel, Robert - 2006
assesses these approaches along with the factors related to informality-formality trade-off and the issue of formalisation as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293528
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The Sources of Wage Growth in a Developing Country
Marinescu, Ioana E.; Triyana, Margaret - 2015
What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288189
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Migrating out of a crowded labor market: Evidence from Egypt
David, Anda; Jarreau, Joachim - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 6, pp. 1-28
We analyze the determinants of emigration at the individual and household level, using three waves of the Egyptian labor market panel survey (ELMPS) covering the 1998-2012 period. Exploiting the panel structure of the data allows us to reduce the risk of reverse causality and to estimate the...
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Comparing estimated and self-reported mark-ups for formal and informal firms in an emerging market context
Rand, John - 2017
-up estimates and relate these to firm-level formality. The average firm-specific mark-up using a trans-log revenue production … ownership form. Zooming in on firm-level registration, we find a formality premium of 16 per cent, even when controlling for … selection into formality. Moreover, a firm size threshold exists, confirming that smaller informal firms are less likely to reap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943763
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Formality, informality, and social welfare
Bennett, John - 2008
An industry is modeled in which entrepreneurs, who are heterogeneous in ability, may produce formally or informally. It is shown how the formal-informal mix depends on the distribution of ability, product demand and various parameter values. The industry equilibrium is compared to one in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268865
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Boats as housing in Oxford, UK: Trajectories of Informality in a High‐Income Context
Galuszka, Jakub - In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 48 (2024) 1, pp. 126-144
In this article I aim to shed light on boat dwelling as an increasingly popular housing practice in the UK. I investigate the changing nature of this practice in times of housing crisis and of the connection between formal and informal approaches, and discuss how decentralized urban actors...
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