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Productivity, profitability and financial fragility: Empirical evidence from Italian business firms
Bottazzi, Giulio; Secchi, Angelo; Tamagni, Federico - 2007
In this work we investigate two crucial dimensions of firms' structure and dynamics, that is profitability and … external credit. We also offer an initial understanding about how profitability and productivity relate with a third dimension …
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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that … with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282402
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Verkostoista alueellista elinvoimaa? Havaintoja yrityskyselystä
Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - 2008
associated with better firm profitability in low-tech industries. Participating in a national cluster may be associated with …
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409406
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The Microeconomic Impacts of Employee Representatives: Evidence from Membership Thresholds
Martins, Pedro S. - 2019
Employee representatives in firms are a potentially key but not yet studied source of the impact of unions and works councils. Their actions can shape multiple drivers of firm performance, including collective bargaining, strikes, and training. This paper examines the impact of union rep...
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Efficient, profitable and safe banking: an oxymoron? Evidence from a panel VAR approach
Koetter, Michael; Porath, Daniel - 2007
Efficiency is considered a key factor when evaluating a bank's performance. Moreover, efficiency enhancement is an explicit policy objective in the Single Market Directive of the European Commission. But efficiency improvements may come at the expense of deteriorating bank profits and excessive...
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How do organizational capabilities shape industry dynamics?
Corsino, Marco; Gabriele, Roberto; Zaninotto, Enrico - 2009
This paper aims to reconcile the logic behind stochastic models of firm growth and the notion of organizational capabilities as drivers of economic performance. In the proposed behavioral model of bounded rational firms, two mechanisms drive growth: independent stochastic growth of individual...
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Distance to frontier and appropriate business strategy
Coad, Alex - 2008
This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm's distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...
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A matter of life and death: Innovation and firm survival
Cefis, Elena; Marsili, Orietta - 2004
This paper examines the effects of innovation on the survival of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The demographics of firms according to their innovative performance and type of innovation are traced by using the Business Register population of all firms active in the Netherlands and the...
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