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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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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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- 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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In this paper we revisit the issue of the scope of bargaining between firms and unions. It is shown that an agreement between parties on the bargaining agenda may endogenously emerge only on the Efficient Bargaining arrangement, provided that union's power is not too high.
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Common wisdom suggests that firms with higher productivities earn higher profits and the higher productivities of the firms benefit consumers by increasing outputs. We show that productivity difference may not matter for outputs and profits in presence of wage bill maximizing labor unions. Our...
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This paper studies the problem of location-quantity choice in a duopoly in which the wage paid by each firm is set by the corresponding monopoly union. Compared with the outcome obtained in location-price choice game, we find that the wage setting choice for both unions does not change in our...
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Common wisdom suggests that firms with higher productivities earn higher profits and the higher productivities of the firms benefit consumers by increasing outputs. We show that productivity difference may not matter for outputs and profits in presence of wage bill maximizing labor unions. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181955
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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in outward FDI and its effects on home performance. Using a sample of French manufacturers, we combine propensity … their home performance ex-post. One explanation for this result might be that foreign-owned firms do not invest abroad in … order to increase their own performance, but the performance of their own group. …
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