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Complementarity of performance pay and task allocation
Hong, Bryan; Küng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2016
internal organization for a nationally representative sample of firms, we empirically test for the existence of complementarity …Complementarity between performance pay and other organizational design elements has been argued to be one potential … find systematic evidence of complementarity between performance pay and decentralization of decision-making from principals …
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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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The importance of measuring dispersion in firm-level outcomes : ignoring the large variation in firm-level outcomes can create misunderstandings about the consequences of many poli...
Syverson, Chad - 2014
Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven by large reallocations of inputs and outputs across firms (churning) within industries and markets. These differences in firm-level outcomes and the associated turnover of firms...
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Innovative Enterprise Solves the Agency Problem : The Theory of the Firm, Financial Flows, and Economic Performance
Lazonick, William - 2017
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Pollution Shock and Firm Performance
Agarwal, Sumit - 2020
This study examines the impact of air pollution shocks on consumer satisfaction and firm performance in the service sector. We show that air pollution shocks lead to an immediate decrease in consumer satisfaction, followed by a substantial rebound in consumer satisfaction for eight months after...
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Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, and the Choice of Human Resource Management Systems : Evidence from New Japanese Data
Kato, Takao; Owan, Hideo - 2021
coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling of HRMPs (Human Resource Management Practices … complementarity involving task coordination modes, HRMPs, training and hiring, and management strategies, and illustrates how such … characteristics and its choice of HRMP system. We begin with constructing a team-theoretic model and derive three task coordination …
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Impact of Corporate Governance Practices on Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions in India
Durgavanshi, Siddharth - 2015
Corporate Governance practices of MFIs (Microfinance Institutions) across different economies have been known to affect the firm performance. This study explores the practices and key board features (Audit Committees, Independent Directors, International Directors, CEO-Board Chairman duality,...
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The Firm as a Subsociety
Gartenberg, Claudine Madras; Zenger, Todd - 2022
, legal and organization theory, we discuss how individuals become members of these subsocieties by exchanging certain rights …
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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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Trust-based work-time and product improvements : evidence from firm level data
Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2014
We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we implement a propensity score matching approach where we only consider firms that did not use trust...
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