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Human resource management: how much do firms really need?

Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

More complete systems of human resource management (HRM) could deliver really extensive gains in employee motivation, according to an analysis of representative data from British workplaces by Michael White and Alex Bryson. Their research explores whether the introduction of 'high-performance...

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Does High Involvement Management Lead to Higher Pay?

Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

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The Impact of an Innovative Human Resource Function on Firm Performance: the Moderating Role of Financing Strategy

Dawson, J; Knight-Turvey, Neal; Neal, Andrew; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

The current study examined the impact of the human resource function and financing strategyon the financial performance of 104 UK manufacturing firms. Hypotheses are drawn from aresource-based perspective on human resource management and a financial theoryperspective on capital structure....

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Do Organisational Climate and Strategic Orientation Moderate the Relationship Between Human Resource Management Practices and Productivity?

Neal, Andrew; Patterson, M; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest thatthe effectiveness of HRM practices should vary across firms. This study examinedwhether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in manufacturingcompanies is contingent upon organizational climate and...

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Organizational Climate and Company Productivity: the Role of Employee Affect and Employee Level

Patterson, M; Warr, P; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

Consistent with a growing number of models about affect and behaviour and with arecognition that perception alone provides no impetus for action, it was predicted thatassociations between company climate and productivity would be mediated by average levelof job satisfaction. In a study of 42...

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Do Private Equity Owned Firms Have Better Management Practices?

Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity, profitability and stock market...

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Globalisation, ICT and the Nitty Gritty of Plant Level Datasets

Martin, Ralf - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

The net entry contribution to aggregate productivity growth has increased dramatically in the UK over 1990saccording to calculations based on data from the Annual Respondents Database (ARD). Some recent studieshave tried to link this to other structural changes over the same period such as...

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Internationalization and Innovation of Firms: Evidence and Policy

Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France …-level characteristics across countries and sectors. We also find that the positive correlation between internationalization and innovation … internationalization goes beyond export and because, in the medium-to-long term, internationalization is driven by innovation. We recommend …

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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth

Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul; Terry, Stephen; Reenen, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated … inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional "trapped factor" effect. Starting …

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Investing for Prosperity: Skills, Infrastructure and Innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Besley, Timothy; Browne, John; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

century? After years of inadequate investment in skills, infrastructure and innovation, there are longstanding structural …

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