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Hyytinen, Ari; Pajarinen, Mika; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010

Finpro is an expert service organization, partly financed from public funds, providing services for internationalization market information, consulting and advice, business development, and other related services. It is one of the largest organizations in the Finnish innovation and business...

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Which Companies Receive Public Support in Finland

Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

Statistics Finland maintains a database which includes firm level data on public support in Finland. During this study it contained data from the years 20006. So far the data has been underutilized in economic and statistical analyses. We use the database in this descriptive study mainly to test...

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The Perils of Altering Incentive Plans: A case study

Kauhanen, Antti - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

This paper studies a retail chain that introduced a sales incentive plan that rewarded for exceeding a sales target and subsequently cut the incentive intensity in addition to increasing the target. Utilizing monthly panel data for 54 months for all 53 units of the chain the paper shows that the...

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Firm Growth and Profitability:The Role of Mobile IT and Organizational Practices

Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010

the firms performance. The data suggest that mobile connectivity as such does not significantly contribute to the firms … mobility associated with the use of a pertinent economic incentive scheme and a systematic performance monitoring seems to …

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Performance Measurement and Incentive Plans

Kauhanen, Antti; Napari, Sami - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010

This paper explores performance measurement in incentive plans. Based on theory, we argue that differences in the … nature of jobs between blue- and white-collar employees lead to differences in incentive systems. We find that performance … measurement for white-collar workers is broader in terms of the performance measures, the organizational level of performance …

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Managerial Practices, Performance and Innovativeness: Some Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing

Koski, Heli; Marengo, Luigi; Mäkinen, Iiro - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

performance. We use a survey data collected from 398 Finnish manufacturing firms for the years 2002 and 2005 to empirically … innovation among the sampled companies seems to be the ownership of a firms stocks by the employees and/or managers. Performance … performance. …

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The Incidence and Determinants of Employee Involvement - Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Sector

Jones, Derek C.; Kalmi, Panu; Kato, Takao; Mäkinen, Mikko - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

In this paper, we present preliminary empirical findings on the incidence of employee involvement practices in the Finnish manufacturing sector. The novel survey on EI practices is based on a representative random sample from the population of the Finnish manufacturing firms who had 50 or more...

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The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Firm Performance - Preliminary Evidence from Finland

Jones, Derek C.; Kalmi, Panu; Kato, Takao; Mäkinen, Mikko - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the nature and effects of human resource practices (HRM) in the Finnish manufacturing sector. In the analysis, we use the novel survey on HRM practices, based on a representative random sample from the population of the Finnish manufacturing...

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The Productivity Effects of Stock Option Schemes: Evidence from Finnish Panel Data

Jones, Derek C.; Kalmi, Panu; Mäkinen, Mikko - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

for enterprise performance, such as those based on free riding, or psychological expectancy theory or accounting myopia …

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Resource allocation in health care processes: A case study

Kauhanen, Antti; Kulvik, Martti; Kulvik, Silja; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

one clinical unit. We use the model to analyze how resource allocation affects both process performance and utilization of … resources. This approach emphasizes how allocation of resources to tasks affects process performance. We illustrate how the … model can be used to analyze how variations in resources affect process performance and for example how ICT affects process …

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