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Trading places: employers, unions and the manufacture of voice
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Willman, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
– especially union-only voice – has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071128
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Participation in organisations: economic approaches
Marsden, David; Cañibano, Almudena - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071550
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La Formazione-sviluppo per la creazione di moderne comunità lavorative [Developmnt-training to create working communities]
Rizziato, Erica - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2010
This paper proposes a new methodology for training in the field of organization development, named development-training. The approach on the base of the methodology come from a research project of Ceris-CNR and the Association Motiva; it is inspired by complexity, constructivism, personalism,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009200958
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THE DIRECTIONS OF DIVERSIFICATION IN ITALIAN MANUFACTURING
Vannoni, Davide - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 1996
This paper focuses on the diversification strategies of the largest manufacturing groups operating in Italy between 1987 and 1993. The analysis of diversification at the firm level and at the industry level is followed with an empirical investigation on the links between the different areas of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839116
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MULTINATIONALITY, DIVERSIFICATION AND FIRM SIZE AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF EUROPE'S LEADING FIRMS
Davies, Stephen; Rondi, Laura; Sembenelli, Alessandro - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 1997
Conventional explanations of diversification and multinationality both point to size/growth related motives and firm-specific intangible assets as the driving forces. However, previous empirical studies have rarely exploited this commonality by investigating multinationality and diversification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010927847
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INNOVATION IN NEW TECHNOLOGY-BASED FIRMS IN FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA
Guerra, Paola - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2003
This paper discusses the results of a research project on new technology-based firms. The aim of the project is to analyze the innovation activity of new technology-based firms. The focus is on the process of knowledge creation that fuels innovation. The analysis is based on an empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386296
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INNOVATIVE FIRMS IN FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA: A CONJOINT ANALYSIS EXPERIMENT
Rotaris, Lucia - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2003
The European market is rapidly enlarging towards the Eastern part of the continent. This phenomenon is stimulating the enterprises localized in the North-Eastern part of Italy to innovate their productivity processes and their products in order to preserve their competitiveness in the national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386303
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l finanziamento delle imprese Spin-off. Un confronto fra Italia e Regno Unito
Salvador, Elisa - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2006
This paper aims at examining the university spin-off firms context at present in place in Italy, with particular attention to the relationship with the academic institutions and the problems of financing. In the latest years, more and more attention is devoted to investigate the emergence of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585422
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Interoperability and market foreclosure in the European Microsoft case
Kuhn, Kai Uwe; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
In this paper we discuss some of the most important economic issues raised in European Commission vs. Microsoft (2004) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746007
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Is there a market for work group servers? Evaluating market level demand elasticities using micro and macro models
Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper contains an empirical analysis demand for “work-group” (or low-end) servers. Servers are at the centre of many US and EU anti-trust debates, including the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger and investigations into the activities of Microsoft. One question in these policy decisions is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071318