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Japanese management abroad : a literature review and a research agenda

Yacuzzi, Enrique - 2011

The purpose of this review is to evaluate the status of scholarly research on Japanese management as it is applied outside Japan. The first part of the review deals with the concept of Japanese management. The second part aims at understanding how Japanese management is applied in foreign...

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Design and implementation of pay for performance

Gibbs, Michael - 2012

A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for performance in practice. -- incentives ; pay for...

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Capitalism, Cronyism, and Management Scholarship : A Call for Clarity

Klein, Peter G.; Holmes, R. Michael; Foss, Nicolai J.; … - 2021

Capitalism, characterized by private ownership, coordination through markets, and decentralization, is blamed for a variety of economic, environmental, and social ills. These critiques often confuse capitalism with cronyism, a system of government favoritism toward particular firms. We show how...

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Productivity and international firm activities : what do we know?

Wagner, Joachim - 2011 - This version: January 25, 2011

This paper summarizes in a non-technical way what we know from empirical studies based on firm-level data about the mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in an evidencebased way. A special focus is on the...

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Money at the docks of tax havens : a guide

Hebous, Shafik - 2011

This essay critically revisits the roles and influences of tax havens in the world economy. It combines various massages of available studies in one scheme, documents a number of observations, and proposes several issues for future research. -- tax havens ; tax avoidance ; tax evasion ;...

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Banking globalization : international consolidation and mergers in banking

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Spindler, Markus (contributor) - 2008

This paper surveys recent literature on international mergers and acquisitions in banking. We focus on three main questions. First, what are the determinants of cross-border mergers of commercial banks? Second, do cross-border mergers affect the efficiency of banks? Third, what are the risk...

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Capital structure choice and company taxation : a meta-study

Feld, Lars P.; Heckemeyer, Jost Henrich; Overesch, Michael - 2011

This paper provides a quantitative review of the empirical literature on the tax impact on corporate debt financing. Synthesizing the evidence from 46 previous studies, we find that this impact is substantial. In particular, the tax rate proxy determines the outcome of primary analyses. Measures...

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"Gender Regimes" : ein ertragreiches Konzept für die komparative Forschung ; Literaturstudie

Betzelt, Sigrid (contributor) - 2007

Das theoretische Konzept von Gender Regimes oder Geschlechterregimen entstand Anfang der 1990er Jahre unter … bezogen, hat sich der Gender Regime Ansatz seither wesentlich erweitert. Einbezogen werden auch nicht-staatliche Akteure sowie … Bestandteile von Gender Regimes betrachtet wie auch die Wechselwirkungen von Policies und sozialer Praxis der …

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Labor supply and taxes : a survey

Keane, Michael P. - 2010

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Do male and female loan officers differ in small business lending? : a review of the literature

Bellucci, Andrea; Borisov, Alexander; Zazzaro, Alberto - In: The economics of small businesses : an international …, (pp. 195-219). 2011

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