Traditional corporate social capital formulations have been based on a firm’s positioning within its network of market place alliances. This paper extends this model by incorporating additional firm status attributes into an integrated model for corporate social capital. An empirical study of...

This paper analyzes alternative empirical strategies for studying the effect of organizational design on performance, as well as the factors which determine organizational design. We begin by developing a general economic model of a firm where multiple organizational design practices are...

In this paper we evaluate the financial performance of virtually all of the branch offices of a large European savings bank for a recent sixmonth accounting period. We employ a complementary pair of nonparametric techniques to evaluate their financial performance, in terms of their ability to...

Young entrepreneurship is an important lever for economic growth and employment creation in developing countries. Credit uptake, however, continues to pose significant limitations to the sustainability of small-scale enterprises. We estimated the impact of credit uptake (formal, informal, and...

Purpose – Examining the strategic contingency of plant improvement capability and innovation capability. Two forms of fit between the two capabilities and competitive priorities were empirically tested. Design/Methodology/Approach – Data collected from a sample of 238 manufacturing plants...

In this study we investigate how firm level environmental performance (EP) affect firm level economic performance measured as profit efficiency (PE) in a stochastic profit frontier setting. Analyzing firms in Swedish manufacturing 1990-2004, results show that EP induced by environmental policy...

The role of intellectual capital is recognized on theoretical and practical level. This study examines whether intellectual capital produces any industry effects on short-term and long-term financial performance. The importance of intellectual capital for the whole investigated sample is...

Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...

We examine the dependence of the performance effects of firms' network positions on the ages of the ties comprising them. Our analysis of Canadian investment banks' underwriting syndicate ties indicates that the performance benefits of closure increase with tie age, while benefits of bridging...

We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population od medium and large firms privatized in a model large-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). We find that concentrated foreign ownership improves economic performance, but domestic...