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Unions, Collective Bargaining and Firm Performance
Laroche, Patrice - 2020
The impact of unions on firm performance has been the subject of debate and controversy in most industrialized … performance, the existing results lead us to consider unions not solely in terms of their costs for the company. Empirical results …
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Productivity Dynamics: The Role of Competition in a Service Industry
Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019
Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches which compete with one another for union members whose...
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World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the Way Forward
Scur, Daniela; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
managerial talent, relates to organizational performance. Over 18 years of research, a set of consistent patterns have emerged …
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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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Trust in management in organizations
Meagher, Kieron J.; Wait, Andrew - In: IZA World of Labor (2023)
It is not possible for a formal employment contract to detail everything an employee should do and when. Informal relationships, in particular trust, allow managers to arrange a business in a more productive way; high-trust firms are both more profitable and faster growing. For example, if they...
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Co-Determination, Efficiency, and Productivity
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Kraft, Kornelius - 2004
We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board-level co-determination. Although our data span two severe recessions when labour hoarding costs of co-determination are probably highest, and the panel is too short to capture the...
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Industrial policy in the twenty-first century
Weiss, John - 2011
Industrial policy has attracted considerable controversy in the development context. This paper makes a case for a pragmatic and limited approach to interventions as a means of stimulating industrialization in the context of current and future challenges facing newly industrializing economies....
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What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2003
in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and …
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Managerial skills, technology adaptation and firm performance: Mediating role of process innovation and product innovation
Asghar, Nabila; Khattak, Amira; Danish, Muhammad Hassan; … - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 3, pp. 1-18
The main aim of every organization is to improve performance and productivity, but this is only possible with efficient … managerial skills and technology adaptation on firm performance and productivity through the mediation channel of process … the productivity and performance of firms. The present research is focused on the implementation of new technology and …
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Public and Public Utility Enterprises Restructuring: Statistical and Quantitative Aid for Ensuring Human Resource Sustainability
Čudanov, Mladen; Jaško, Ondrej; Săvoiu, Gheorghe - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 14 (2012) 32, pp. 307-322
productivity oscillation and setting of performance standards in public and public utility enterprises based on the aforementioned … productivity. Data background is given through job descriptions, organizational charts, salary reports and monthly performance …
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