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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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The Power of Prediction : Predictive Analytics, Workplace Complements, and Business Performance
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Jin, Wang; McElheran, Kristina - 2021
Anecdotes abound suggesting that the use of predictive analytics boosts firm performance. However, large-scale representative data on this phenomenon have been lacking. Working with the Census Bureau, we surveyed over 30,000 American manufacturing establishments on their use of predictive...
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Complementarity of performance pay and task allocation
Hong, Bryan; Küng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2016
Complementarity between performance pay and other organizational design elements has been argued to be one potential explanation for stark differences in the observed productivity gains from performance pay adoption. Using detailed data on internal organization for a nationally representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219318
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The Paradox of Stretch Goals : Organizations in Pursuit of the Seemingly Impossible
Sitkin, Sim B.; See, Kelly E.; Miller, C. Chet; … - 2011
We investigate the organizational pursuit of seemingly impossible goals - commonly known as stretch goals. Building from our analysis of the mechanisms through which stretch goals could influence organizational learning and performance, we offer a contingency framework evaluating which...
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Performance Differentials between Diversifying Entrants and Entrepreneurial Start-Ups : A Complexity Approach
Ganco, Martin; Agarwal, Rajshree - 2009
We investigate the relationship between firms' entry characteristics and their subsequent performance contingent on environmental turbulence and stage of industry life cycle by simulating industry as an NKC landscape. Diversifying entrants differ from entrepreneurial startups in terms of the...
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Impact of macro-economic environment on diversification-performance relationship: A cross country study of India and Japan
Purkayastha, Saptarshi - 2013
relationships between product diversification, business group affiliation and firm performance in two major economies in Asia. India … Rumelt (1974) implicitly assumed that the diversification-performance relationship is consistent, regardless of the macro … macroeconomic environments. Further, studies linking diversification with firm performance have been carried out mainly in …
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Eat, Drink, Firms, Government : An Investigation of Corruption from Entertainment and Travel Costs of Chinese Firms
Cai, Hongbin - 2010
We propose "Entertainment and Travel Costs" (ETC) expenditures as a measure of corruption in Chinese firms. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141021
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Management practices and productivity in Germany
Broszeit, Sandra; Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger; … - 2016
Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van Reenen as indicators of management quality. We find substantial heterogeneity in management practices across establishments...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486495
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Management practices and productivity in Germany
Broszeit, Sandra; Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger; … - 2016
Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van Reenen as indicators of management quality. We find substantial heterogeneity in management practices across establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581659