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Co-determination and Innovation
Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578125
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Co-Determination, Efficiency, and Productivity
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Kraft, Kornelius - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board-level co-determination. Although our data span two severe recessions when labour hoarding costs of co-determination are probably highest, and the panel is too short to capture the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822112
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A Model for Industrial Development of the Federal Region of Kurdistan: Science and Technology Policy, Instruments and Institutions
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This report introduces two of the most successful industrial development models of the modern time - the Japanese as a leader and the South Korean as its follower. The objective is to review the industrialization process in these two economies which have served as a model for development in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762411
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What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?
Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703831
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Innovation, investment and regulation : What are the options for regulation in the near future ?.
Jennequin, Hugues; Flacher, David; Lorenzi, Jean-Hervé - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2006
This paper addresses the question of what options are available to regulate the sector in the near future. In order to answer this question, the paper focuses on the problem of investment and innovation in an ex ante regulated sector. Relying on existing literature, we argue that ex ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532729
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A model for evaluating affective relationships in distributed work.
Pallud, Jessie; Josserand, Emmanuel - Université Paris-Dauphine
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572207
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Impacts of team virtuality on performance : a qualitative study.
Kalika, Michel; Jawadi, Nabila - Université Paris-Dauphine
this paper is to assess how the variability of team virtuality influences team performance. A multidimensional approach to … evaluate virtuality was elaborated to identify changing performance variables at each level. The performance variables retained … results show that performance measures are differently influenced by virtuality level. Although output quality seems not to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532637
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Vers une tentative de représentation de l’entreprise autour du concept de vision : une analyse de la littérature.
Ederlé, Nicolas - Université Paris-Dauphine
Constatant qu’en gestion il est souvent fait référence au terme de vision et d’entreprise ou de dirigeant “ visionnaires ”, mais que paradoxalement il n’existe pas de définitions précises de ces termes, notre recherche se propose d’effectuer une analyse de la littérature portant...
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Le partenariat vertical dans l'industrie aéronautique : vers une configuration contrôle adaptée aux évolutions de l'environnement.
Donada, Carole; Nogatchewsky, Gwenaëlle - Université Paris-Dauphine
Cette recherche a pour objectif d’étudier l’adaptation d’une configuration de contrôle inter- organisationnelle (en termes de stratégie, de structure et de contrôle) aux évolutions de l’environnement. La recherche empirique est basée sur une étude de cas auprès d’un motoriste...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008551613
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A resource-based view of firm boundaries.
Jain, Amit; Thiétart, Raymond-Alain - Université Paris-Dauphine
The current paper explores the use of the Resource-Based View in the analysis of the firm boundary decision. It is proposed that resources that are valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable and non-substitutable are those that have the least likelihood of being outsourced. This proposition is tested...
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