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Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Performance in Russia: A Panel Study

Batjargal, Bat - 2000

Drawing on the social embeddedness perspective, this paper examines the impact of entrepreneurs' social capital on their firm performance in post-Soviet Russia. Based on face-to-face interviews with 75 Russian entrepreneurs in 1995, and the follow-up study in 1999, the study contrasts the...

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Unraveling the effects of workforce diversity on firm performance: The role of HRM practices in large U.S. corporate law firms

Roh, Hyuntak - 2010

Past research on the effects of diversity in the workplace was contradictory and empirical evidence has been inconclusive. This phenomenon is particularly true for explaining the association between workforce diversity and organization-level performance outcomes. The purpose of this study is to...

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Examining Curvilinearity and Moderation in the Relationship between the Degree of Relatedness of Individual Diversification Actions and Firm Performance

Cernas Ortiz, Daniel Arturo - 2011

Corporate diversification continues to be an important phenomenon in the modern business world. More than thirty years of research on diversification suggests that the degree of relatedness among a firm's business units is a factor that can affect firm performance, but the true effect of...

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The Levered Equity Risk Premium and Credit Spreads: A Unified Framework

Bhamra, Harjoat S.; Kuehn, Lars-Alexander; Strebulaev, … - 2009

We embed a structural model of credit risk inside a dynamic continuous-time consumption-based asset pricing model, which allows us to price equity and corporate debt in a unified framework. Our key economic assumptions are that the first and second moments of earnings and consumption growth...

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Linking small producers to supermarkets? The role of intermediaries on the fresh fruit and vegetable market in Turkey.

Bignebat, Celine; Koc, A. Ali; Lemeilleur, Sylvaine - 2009

channels (that isremunerative ones) is at stake. Based on original data collected in Turkey in 2007 at the producer and the …

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ACEITAÇÃO E SEGMENTAÇÃO DO MERCADO DE PRODUTOS DERIVADOS DA CARNE DE PERU

Pulici, Rodrigo; Alves, Flavio Rocha; Gameiro, Augusto … - 2008

poultry production has largely grown. The turkey production somehow follows this performance. A large amount of turkey meat is … does not occur with turkey derivates consumption, which is very low, despite the growth in the last five years. This … research analyzed the market segmentation strategy of products made of turkey meat, as well as the purchase behavior based on …

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Plant Closings, Mass Layoffs, and Worker Dislocations: Data Issues

Bolle, Mary Jane; Foreign Affairs, Defense - 1993

For at least 15 years Members of Congress have continued to ask: How many U.S. manufacturing plants have closed? For at least 15 years they have continued to ask: How many U.S. manufacturing plants have relocated abroad, and where have they gone? For at least 15 years the answer has been: For...

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Knowledge worker #3

Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand)

Peter Drucker lectures about the knowledge worker. During his talk, he discusses: supply as the center of today’s corporation, the change in structure and character of the workforce, the main function of a job, work as portable and specialized, the importance of making oneself understood and...

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Unternehmensmitbestimmung unter Beschuss : die Mitbestimmungsdebatte im Licht der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung

Höpner, Martin - 2004

Das Papier nimmt aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive zur Debatte über die Zukunft der Aufsichtsratsmitbestimmung Stellung, indem es den Stand der empirischen Mitbestimmungsforschung zusammenfasst und weiterentwickelt. Es weist nach, dass Mitbestimmung auf Ebene der Leitungsorgane in den...

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