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Does State Ownership Really Matter? The Dynamic Alignment of China’s Resource Environment and Firm Internationalization Strategies
Ren, Monica - 2019
Recent research suggests that unequal access to home country institutional resources affects firm internationalization strategies. We add to this debate, based on an analysis of state-owned (SOEs) and non-state-owned (NSOEs) Chinese mining firms, by developing a more dynamic and multi-layered...
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Birthplace diversity and team performance
Brox, Enzo; Krieger, Tommy - 2019
We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...
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Global Delivery Models : The Role of Talent, Speed and Time Zones in the Global Outsourcing Industry
Manning, Stephan; Larsen, Marcus M.; Bharati, Pratyush - 2017
Global delivery models (GDMs) are transforming the global IT and business process outsourcing industry. GDMs are a new form of client-specific investment promoting services integration with clients by combining client proximity with time-zone spread for 24/7 service operations. We investigate...
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State-of-the-art and future directions for green human resource management: Introduction to the special issue
Jackson, Susan E.; Renwick, Douglas W. S.; Jabbour, … - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 2, pp. 99-116
intersection of strategic HRM and environmental management. If pursued with vigor, research addressing this extensive agenda could … Umweltweltmanagement. Energisch verfolgt, kann Forschung entlang dieser extensiven Agenda helfen, Umweltorientiertes Personalmanagement zu …
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On the economic architecture of the workplace: repercussions of social comparisons amongst heterogeneous workers
Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded - 2011
We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the...
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Perceived overqualification and performance: The role of the peer group
Alfes, Kerstin - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 27 (2013) 4, pp. 314-330
Research on the relationship between perceived overqualification and individual performance has examined individual experiences of overqualification in isolation. The present study approaches this relationship in a new light by examining a condition under which perceptions of overqualification...
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The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance
Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015
Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other) factors, this paper seeks to explain empirically the performance of inventors throughout their careers. We combine survey information spanning the...
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Heterogeneity of Skill Needs and Job Complexity: Evidence from the OECD PIAAC Survey
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Russo, Giovanni - 2015
We use information from the new OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to investigate the link between job tasks and cognitive skill demand in 22 advanced economies. Skill demand is operationalized by the assessed literacy and numeracy skills of workers with well-matched skills to their job duties....
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Measuring the use of human resources practices and employee attitudes: The Linked Personnel Panel
Kampkötter, Patrick; Mohrenweiser, Jens; Sliwka, Dirk; … - 2015
designed for quantitative empirical HR research. The LPP offers a unique structure. First, the data set combines employer and … longitudinal dimension, the LPP should facilitate the study of causal effects of HR practices. The LPP employee survey uses a …, der für die quantitative HR-Forschung konzipiert wurde. Das LPP bietet eine einzigartige Struktur. Erstens kombiniert der …
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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...
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