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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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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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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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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 …
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The impact of organisational privatization on the performance of publicly owned enterprises
Cayón-Costa, Magda; Vergés-Jaime, Joaquim - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 3, pp. 1-29
In this work we analyse to what degree the efficiency of a publicly owned non-monopolistic enterprise improves as a result of the introduction of strategic organizational reforms consisting of adopting "private-firm-like" management practices, criteria, and governance structure; i.e....
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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/10011546641
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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/10011553965