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The impact of a new quality management practice on firm performance: evidence from Pakistan

Faran, Mahvish; Taylor, Karl - 2021

This paper uses a novel firm level data set to investigate the impact of a unique quality management practice on the production and productivity of a large-scale garments manufacturer in Pakistan. The analysis provides evidence that production complexity is an important element in determining...

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Organisational leadership : how much does it matter?

Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2022

We study the influence of leadership on organisational performance and worker wellbeing using data from the 2004 and … organisational performance, and an increase in worker wellbeing. Specifically, the estimates reveal that an increase in leadership … quality by one standard deviation increases organisational performance and worker job satisfaction by 0.27 and 0.73 standard …

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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency : evidence from Europe’s top R&D investors

Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - 2009

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance …

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Management as a technology?

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016

management on firm performance; (ii) a positive relationship between product market competition and average management quality …

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What drives differences in management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...

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Infrastructure grants and the performance of microenterprises

Chaurey, Ritam; Duong Trung Le - 2018

" districts, on the performance of microenterprises. "Backward" districts were selected based on a transparent score …

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Place-based policies and agglomeration economies : firm-level evidence from Special Economic Zones in India

Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...

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Working conditions and factory survival : evidence from better factories Cambodia

Robertson, Raymond; Brown, Drusilla K.; Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2016

A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants in developing countries adds the risk of making survival more difficult by imposing external...

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Choking under pressure : evidence of the causal effect of audience size on performance

Böheim, René; Grübl, Dominik; Lackner, Mario - 2018

We analyze performance under pressure and estimate the causal effect of audience size on the success of free throws in … attendance size and performance. Our results confirm a sizeable and strong negative effect of the number of spectators on … performance. Home teams in (non-critical) situations at the beginning of games perform worse when the audience is larger. This …

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The determinants of firm performance : unions, works councils, and employee involvement/high performance work practices

Addison, John T. (contributor) - 2005

representation (in unions and works councils) and innovative work practices on firm performance. The focus is on the growing links … between these two historically separate literatures. The interaction between worker representation and high performance work …-determined hierarchy for productivity performance and certainly no blue-print for the future of unions. -- worker representation ; employee …

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