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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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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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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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innovation performance of companies and can pose major threats to global competition and economic growth. However, the actual … impact of counterfeiting on the performance of companies has not been tested empirically, due to methodological problems … counterfeiting could have in part a beneficial effect on the performance of companies, due to indirect advertising, calling for …
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performance. However, high purpose firms come in two forms: firms characterized by high camaraderie between workers and firms … higher future accounting and stock market performance, even after controlling for current performance, and that this relation … of their organization and the clarity in the path towards that purpose experience better performance …
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in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
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This paper investigates the impact of eco-innovation on firms' growth processes, with a special focus on gazelles, i.e. firms' showing higher growth rates than the average. In a context shaped by more and more stringent environmental regulatory frameworks, we posit that inducement mechanisms...
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of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance …-environmental performance relationship. Signals of inverted U shape appear: this may be a signal that both firm strategies and recent policy … ; Economic Performance ; Environmental Performance …
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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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Globalization has been identified by many experts as a new way firms organize their activities and as the emergence of human capital as the new stakeholder of the firm. This paper surveys recent work which examines the role of trade integration for these changes in corporate organization. More...
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