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Positive employee attitudes: how much human resource management do you need?

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We propose a selective view of human resource management (HRM) that is guided by work motivation theory, arguing that one of the means by which firms achieve higher performance is by investing in certain forms of HRM practice that help fulfil intrinsic work values and thereby influence...

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Technological innovation and economic performance in the United Kingdom

Nickell, S. J.; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

due to a weakness in technological innovation despite a high quality science base. This includes comparatively low and …

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How does innovation affect worker well-being?

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Barth, Erling - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation – a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …

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The effect of credit rationing on the shape of the competition-innovation relationship

Bena, Jan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Using a dynamic model of a step-by-step innovation race between financially constrained firms, I study how financial … constraints affect innovation activity. The novel theoretical results derive from an analysis of the interaction between the … incentive effect of competition on innovation and the effect competition has on the degree of credit rationing. I find that the …

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Trapped factors and China’s impact on global growth

Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul; Terry, Stephen; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated … inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional “trapped factor” effect. Starting …

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It's a family affair: the effect of union recognition and human resource management on the provision of equal opportunities in the UK

Fernie, Sue; Gray, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Equal opportunities policies and family-friendly practices are examined using data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey in order to assess (i) their associations with union recognition and strategic human resource management and (ii) the outcomes of what has recently been described...

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Human resource management and productivity

Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many nonpay aspects of the employment relationship such as matching (hiring and firing) and work organization (e.g. teams, autonomy)....

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