Personnel economics tends be based on single-firm case studies. Here we examine the personnel practices of nearly 5,000 firms, over a period of 20 years, using detailed matched employer-employee panel data from Portugal. In the spirit of Baker et al. (1994a,b), we consider different dimensions...

Hotel enterprise is part of Tourism Industry which is thriving in India than ever before, in line with 2019 record of World Economic Forum India has reached the 34th rank within side the world from forty in the course of 2017 (World Economic Forum;The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report,...

An important role of corporate disclosure is to improve the efficiency of capital allocation, and a key part of this process is firms' internal allocation of capital across their multiple projects. This paper examines the effect of internal capital allocation on firms' disclosure incentives and...

We examine the introduction of a gender quota law in Germany, mandating a minimum 30% of the underrepresented gender on the supervisory boards of a particular type of firms. We exploit the fact that Germany has a two-tier corporate system consisting of the affected supervisory boards and...

Human resources are the most significant resource of a company; this is especially true for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in which they create the company's competitive advantage because of their uniqueness. Human resources manage other resources and are responsible for the efficiency and...

Divergent thinking is the ability to produce numerous and diverse responses to questions or tasks, and it is used as a predictor of creative achievement. It plays a significant role in the business organization's innovation process and the recognition of new business opportunities. Drawing upon...

This study examines whether there is a relationship between physical attractiveness of professional female tennis players ranked in the top 100 of the tennis world ranking in 2011 and their sporting success in terms of earned prize money and winning probabilities. OLS-regressions reveal a...

This study examines whether there is a relationship between physical attractiveness of professional female tennis players ranked in the top 100 of the tennis world ranking in 2011 and their sporting success in terms of earned prize money and winning probabilities. OLS-regressions reveal a...