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Sectoral Diversification and Bank Performance : An Empirical Study on Domestic Licensed Commercial Banks in Sri Lanka
Kurincheedaran, Shan - 2016
While the traditional banking theory and portfolio theory favour diversification strategy for better performance the … between sectoral loan diversification and the banks' performance. This paper empirically investigates the relationship between … the sectoral diversification and the performance of Sri Lankan domestic licensed commercial banks over the period of 2008 …
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Distance and efficiency in the Italian banking system
Bernini, Cristina; Brighi, Paola - In: Modern bank behaviour, (pp. 95-124). 2013
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The anatomy of costs and firm performance evidence from Belgium
De Loecker, Jan; Fuss, Catherine; Quiller-Doust, Nathan; … - 2024
or overhead costs has increased in prominence. We relate these changes in firms' cost structures to performance measures … and document that markups and gross profit rates increase substantially as the role of variable costs in production …
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On the Nature and Scope of the Firm : An Adjustment-Cost Theory
Wernerfelt, Birger - 2007
needed, this involves lower adjustment costs than any alternative game form. The price list game form is better when the list …
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The Supply of Quality in Child Care Centers
Blau, David M.; Mocan, Naci H. - 1999
We use data from a sample of day care centers to estimate the relationships between cost and the quality of the child care service provided, and between revenue and quality. We use a measure of child care quality derived from an instrument designed by developmental psychologists. This measure of...
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Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity
Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David E.; Van … - 2016
Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are mediated through employee decision-making and...
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Management as a technology?
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016
estimate it using panel data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital …
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Does management matter in schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043700
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Examining the link between health measures, management practices and establishment performance
Broszeit, Sandra; Laible, Marie-Christine - 2017
We examine the relationship between establishment-level health measures, Anglo-Saxon management practices and labor productivity, as well as median wages. Based on the observation that management practices are positively associated with establishment outcomes, we test whether health measures...
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