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In brief: Two cheers for Anglo-Saxon financial markets?

Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

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Innovation in Business Groups

Belenzon, Sharon; Berkovitz, Tomer - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

Using novel data on European firms, this paper examines the effect of business group affiliation on innovation. We find … that business groups foster the scale and novelty of corporate innovation. Group affiliation is particularly important in … industries that rely more on external finance and have a higher degree of information asymmetry. We also find that the innovation …

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Measuring the Cost Effectiveness of an R&D Tax Credit for the UK

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

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Does High Involvement Management Improve Worker Wellbeing?

Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than "like" employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a model...

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Effort and Comparison Income: Experimental and Survey Evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort, combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with the analysis of multi-country ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The...

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Trading Places: Employers, Unions and the Manufacture of Voice

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Willman, P - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we show that over the last quarter century union voice - especially union-only voice - has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and poorer labour productivity than nonunion voice and,...

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Catching a Wave: the Adoption of Voice and High Commitment Workplace Practices in Britain: 1984-1998

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Kretschmer, Tobias - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

In this paper we treat workplace voice and systems of high-commitment human resource management (HCHRM) as technological innovations in order to account for the uneven diffusion patterns observed across establishments. Using British data, the paper finds that variables highlighted in the...

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Participation in Organisations: Economic Approaches

Cañibano, Almudena; Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

Under the auspices of the debate about high performance work systems, it has been suggested that the evidence of positive results is disappointing and that one reason is that there has been a lack of theory. This paper argues that there is indeed a great deal of theory that could be used to...

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The Division of Labor, Coordination, and the Demand for Information Processing

Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

Since Adam Smith's time, the division of labor in production has increased significantly, while information processing has become an important part of work. This paper examines whether the need to coordinate an increasingly complex division of labor has raised the demand for clerical office...

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