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Unionisation structures, productivity, and firm performance
Braun, Sebastian - 2009
can be overturned when firms face international low-wage competition. -- Trade Unions ; Productivity ; Firm Performance …
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Unionisation structures and heterogeneous firms
Braun, Sebastian - 2009
The effects of unions on productivity and firm performance have been the topic of extensive research. Existing studies … unions ; heterogeneous firms ; productivity ; firm performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929223
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Unionisation Structures, Productivity, and Firm Performance
Braun, Sebastian - 2009
This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity, firm performance, and consumer welfare in a monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms and free entry. While centralised bargaining induces tougher selection among heterogeneous producers and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159889
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Cross-border mergers and hollowing-out
Secrieru, Oana - 2009
The purpose of our paper is to examine the profitability and social desirability of both domestic and foreign mergers in a location-quantity competition model, where we allow for the possibility of hollowing-out of the target firm. We refer to hollowing-out as the situation where the target firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933343
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Firm-Specific Time Preferences and Postmerger Firm Performance
Harris, Jeremiah - 2017
This study investigates the role of firm-level discount factors in evaluating the impact of mergers on market outcomes. Discount factors reflect time preferences for future cash flows and are used to determine the present value of investment projects such as mergers. Firm-specific discount...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958337
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Family Control, Product Market Competition and Firm Performance
Park, Seun-Young - 2016
In this paper, we try to determine the effect of the presence of family shareholders on company performance in the absence of external corporate governance. Our empirical results using Anderson et al. (2009, 2012)'s family firm data suggests that family firms exhibit superior firm performance...
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On the private and social desirability of mixed bundling in complementary markets with cost savings
Halmenschlager, Christine; Mantovani, Andrea - 2015
The aim of this paper is to study both the private and the social desirability of a mixed bundling strategy that generates a cost savings effect. We confirm that mixed bundling is the dominant strategy for multiproduct firms, although it may give rise to a prisoner's dilemma. Moreover, we show...
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Centralization and innovation performance in an emerging economy : testing the moderating effects
Yang, Zhi; Zhou, Xuemin; Zhang, Pengcheng - In: Asia Pacific journal of management : APJM ; a … 32 (2015) 2, pp. 415-442
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Demystifying the link between knowledge management capability and innovation ambidexterity : organizational structure as a moderator
Shafique, Imran; Kalyar, Masood Nawaz; Shafique, Muhammad; … - In: Business process management journal 28 (2022) 5/6, pp. 1343-1363
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Unions, collective bargaining and firm performance
Laroche, Patrice - 2020
The impact of unions on firm performance has been the subject of debate and controversy in most industrialized … scope and limitations of the economic analysis of unions as well as the controversies surrounding the conclusions of … existing empirical research. Although it is difficult to draw firm and general conclusions on the effects of unions on firm …
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