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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - 2000

representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …

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The effect of taxes on CEO performance

Arnemann, Laura; Buhlmann, Florian; Ruf, Martin; Voget, … - 2025

In this paper, we investigate the effect of higher personal income taxes on CEO and firm performance in publicly traded US firms. In response to higher taxes on compensation, CEOs are less likely to reach performance goals and spend more time working in boards outside of their firm. At the same...

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Subjective evaluation versus public information

Bester, Helmut; Münster, Johannes - 2013

This paper studies a principal-agent relation in which the principal's private information about the agent's effort choice is more accurate than a noisy public performance measure. For some contingencies the optimal contract has to specify ex post inefficiencies in the form of inefficient...

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Works councils and the productivity impact of direct employee participation

Zwick, Thomas - 2003

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Executive compensation tied to ESG performance : international evidence

Cohen, Shira; Kadach, Igor; Ormazabal, Gaizka; … - 2022

This paper examines the reliance on ESG metrics in executive compensation contracts. In our sample of international publicly traded firms, a rapidly growing fraction incorporate ESG metrics in the compensation schemes of their top executives. Our analysis links the reliance on these metrics to...

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Use of digital technologies for HR management in Germany : survey evidence

Chugunova, Marina; Danilov, Anastasia - 2023

Using a survey with 57 German firms, we evaluate the level of digitalization of the human resource management (HRM) function and document perceived benefits and barriers of technology adoption from organizational and individual users’ perspectives. The results give reason for optimism. Most of...

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Mapping the dynamics of management styles : evidence from German survey data

Englmaier, Florian; Hofmann, Michael; Wolter, Stefanie - 2023

We study how firms adjust the bundles of management practices they adopt over time, using repeated survey data collected in Germany from 2012 to 2018. By employing unsupervised machine learning, we leverage high-dimensional data on human resource policies to describe clusters of management...

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Employee performance and mental well-being : the mitigating effects of transformational leadership during crisis

Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023

The positive role of transformational leadership on productivity and mental wellbeing has long been established. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of complexity and uncertainty. We exploit...

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Taxes and pay without performance : evidence from executives

Arnemann, Laura - 2025

This paper contributes to the ongoing discourse on the taxation of top-income earners by empirically investigating the impact of tax policy changes on pay without performance. Using data on executive compensation in the United States, I compare the sensitivity of executive compensation to...

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A policy toolkit to increase research and innovation in the European Union

Teichgraeber, Andreas; Van Reenen, John - 2022

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