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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature on SME growth by analysing longitudinal...
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Peer settings induce cheating on task performance
Bäker, Agnes; Mechtel, Mario - 2015
Recent research has shown that the presence of peers can increase individual output both in the lab and the field. This paper tests for negative side effects of peer settings. We investigate whether peer settings are particularly prone to cheating even if they do not provide additional monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530020
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Personnel economics essay : issues in human capital theory, training and earnings of workers
Josheski, Dushko - 2014 - Preprint
In this paper the issues from the personnel economics has been investigated. The issues such as training of workers …
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Worker separations in a nonstationary corporate environment
Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2000
This paper investigates differences in worker turnover characteristics between periods of workforce expansion and contraction in a firm. We derive a Cox proportional hazard model from a simple model of job separation based on the expected surpluses from the firm and its workers. We account for...
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A century of American Economic Review
Torgler, Benno; Piatti, Marco - 2011
? -- American Economic Review ; Publishing Economics ; Rankings ; Cooperation ; Authors ; Editors ; Board Members ; Referees …
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HPWS in the public sector : are there mutual gains?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2018
Few studies investigate the links between high-performance work systems (HPWS) on public sector organizational performance and worker job attitudes. We fill this gap with analyses of these links using linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces in Britain in 2004 and 2011. We find robust...
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Use of digital technologies for HR management in Germany : survey evidence
Chugunova, Marina; Danilov, Anastasia - 2023
Using a survey with 57 German firms, we evaluate the level of digitalization of the human resource management (HRM … not observe adverse effects of the digital HRM tools on users’ job satisfaction and work stress. Still, more than half of … companies do not yet use digital tools for strategic HRM decisions. Respondents appreciate the increased speed and cost …
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"I had always operated on the outside" : a conversation with E. Roy Weintraub on the history of economics, science studies and academic morals
Giraud, Yann - 2019
attempts to forge new ways to study the history of contemporary economics, and the role of science studies in providing a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063071
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The impact of management practices on SME performance
Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018
We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use...
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People Analytics : evidenzbasiert Entscheidungsfindung im Personalmanagement
Hammermann, Andrea; Thiele, Christopher - 2019
Die Menge an digitalen Daten steigt rasant. Im Jahr 2018 wurden 33 Zettabytes (33 Milliarden Terabytes) an Daten generiert und für 2020 werden 47 Zettabytes prognostiziert. In den meisten Unternehmen wird das Potenzial verfügbarer Daten zur Unterstützung von (Investitions-) Entscheidungen...
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