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Travel time losses in the Netherlands are likely to get worse in the years ahead if capacity is not added to cope with the demand. This particularly creates problems for business travel, which is characterized by a high “value of time”. In the Netherlands, policy makers have a long-standing...
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This report summarises the findings of a study on the growth factors and growth prospects of the business services (BS)industry, applying an internationally comparative perspective. The report untangles factors behind the extraordinary growth of the BS industry during last decade,comparing it...
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Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...
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performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …
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Are poor management practices holding back middle-income countries? The authors look at evidence for private firms and public organisations in India - in manufacturing, retail, healthcare and education.
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across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these … markets are associated with improvements in incentive management practices such as performance based promotion. …
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across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e … associated with broad based operational improvement in management rather than just stronger performance incentives. Finally …
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- especially union-only voice - has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and …
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Under the auspices of the debate about high performance work systems, it has been suggested that the evidence of … economics broadly understood. It includes a meta-survey of research on the effects of participation on performance since the … argued that this is due in part to consideration of a wider range of performance outcomes, improved data and methods, and to …
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This paper investigates the impact of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) on technological change. We exploit installations-level inclusion criteria to estimate the impact of the EU ETS on firms patenting. We find that the EU ETS has increased low-carbon innovation among regulated firms by...
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