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The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance …
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. To evaluate whether the existence of social connections is beneficial to the firm's overall performance, we explore how … irrespective of the worker's ability, but when they are paid performance bonuses, they target their effort towards high ability … performance of connected workers, we find that favoring connected workers is detrimental for the firm's overall performance. …
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effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the two economies which are noted for the wide use … influence and voice on shopfloor decision making than other workers; (ii) workers whose pay is tied to firm performance are more … likely to have a stake in firm performance and hence demand such influence and voice; and (iii) consequently workers in firms …
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In this contribution, we examine the interrelation between corporate age structures and firm performance. In particular … dispersion of age in firms are inversely u-shaped related to firm performance. …
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In this paper we analyse the impact of governmental grant provision on plant performance. To this end we utilise rich …
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aggregate performance. …
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While a variety of studies analysed the benign effects of privatisation on firm performance under post …
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While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their importance for domestic firms. To guide our empirical analysis, we first set up a simple theoretical model to show how foreign experts may impact on the productivity and wages...
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This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality … relationship with economic growth and performance. For the empirical results we use panel data on the Korean manufacturing sector …
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Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated with regulations, infrastructure, security, workforce, corruption, and finance. This study shows that such reliance has significant positive impacts on productivity as measured...
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