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Smith, Nina - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)

Arguments for increasing gender diversity on boards of directors by gender quotas range from ensuring equal opportunity … to improving firm performance. The introduction of gender quotas in a number of countries has increased female … representation on boards. Current research does not justify gender quotas on grounds of economic efficiency. In many countries the …

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Role of macroeconomic variables on firms' performance: Evidence from the UK

Issah, Mohammed; Antwi, Samuel - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-18

The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of macroeconomic conditions and predict the base performance of a firm as represented by Return on Asset (ROA) and macroeconomic variables. The predictor variables used in the construction of the models were selected using PCA. For the full...

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Response to the global financial crisis: A follow-up study

Hansenand, Eric; Nybakk, Erlend - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 7 (2018) 7, pp. 1-12

Firm response to decline has seen renewed interest based on the impacts of the global financial crisis. Here, we investigate the long-lasting effects of decline on the innovativeness of firms and, ultimately, the performance outcomes of those actions. The study focuses on SMEs in the US forest...

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Corporate internet reporting and firm performance: Evidence from Malaysia

Sia, Chai J.; Brahmana, Rayenda; Memarista, Gesti - In: Contemporary Economics 12 (2018) 2, pp. 153-164

information disclosure. Perhaps, the managers do not believe that there is positive association between internet reporting and …

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Intellectual Capital Disclosure and Firm Performance: An Empirical Analysis Through Integrated Reporting

Vitolla, Filippo; Raimo, Nicola; Rubino, Michele - 2019

quality and the firm performance. The results of this document are of considerable importance to policy makers and managers … costs and benefits of disclosure. As far as managers are concerned, this study clearly shows that intellectual capital …

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Coopetition-based open-innovation and innovation performance: Role of trust and dependency evidence from Malaysian high-tech SMEs

In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 13 (2019) 1, pp. 209-230

In a highly competitive environment, the phenomenon of coopetition is emerging rapidly among various firms as well as markets which is significant to enhance firm's open innovation performance (FOIP). However, Malaysian High-Tech SMEs are unable to develop a well-managed coopetition mechanism...

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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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Performance of Hungarian firms: Are apprentices an asset or a liability? Evidence from a unique matched employer-employee dataset

Cabus, Sofie; Nagy, Eszter - 2017

Hungarian legislation provides firms with financial incentives to train apprentices from vocational training schools. In line with these incentives, it is observed that firms increasingly train apprentices over the period 2003-2011, in particular, in the sectors manufacturing, construction,...

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Business Owners, Employees and Firm Performance

Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu - 2016

The novel Finnish Longitudinal OWNer-Employer-Employee (FLOWN) database was used to analyze how the characteristics of owners and employees relate to firm performance as determined by labor productivity, survival and employment growth. Focusing on the role of the owner’s formal education and...

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The Young, the Old and the Innovative: The Impact of R&D on Firm Performance in ICT versus Other Sectors

Koutroumpis, Pantelis; Leiponen, Aija; Thomas, … - 2017

Although innovation opportunities within the ICT industry are assumed high in comparison with other industries because of their rapidly evolving technological trajectory, little empirical research systematically investigates the distribution of returns to R&D investment across industries and...

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