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Union–firm bargaining agenda: right-to-manage or efficient bargaining?
Fanti, Luciano - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 2, pp. 936-948
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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Irrelevance of productivity difference: A case with labor union
Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Economics Bulletin 10 (2007) 17, pp. 1-8
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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Spatial Cournot competition and timing of endogenous wage setting
Wang, Qiang; He, Yuanyuan; Chen, Qi - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 3, pp. 1772-1782
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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Irrelevance of productivity difference: A case with labor union
Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Economics Bulletin 10 (2007) 17, pp. 1-8
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
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Outward FDI, performance and group affiliation: evidence from French matched firms
Gazaniol, Alexandre; Peltrault, Frédéric - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 2, pp. 891-904
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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Green Management and Green Technology - Exploring the Causal Relationship
Ziegler, Andreas - 2014
environmental performance such as green technology activities on green management. Based on evolutionary theory and the resource …
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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in Germany : Do Organizational Measures Matter?
Ziegler, Andreas; Rennings, Klaus - 2014
Based on a unique firm level data set of the German manufacturing sector, this paper provides new empirical evidence regarding the determinants of different types of environmental technological innovations. We examine particularly the effects of environmental organizational measures such as...
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Green Innovations and Organizational Change : Making Better Use of Environmental Technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhauser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2014
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations : An Empirical Analysis
Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria - 2008
The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the "Integrated Product Policy". The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product's life cycle....
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Policy-Induced Environmental Technology and Inventive Efforts : Is There a Crowding Out?
Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014
Significant policy effort is devoted to stimulate the development, adoption and diffusion of environmentally-friendly technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on firms' competitiveness. Since innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a...
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