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Trust-based work-time and product improvements : evidence from firm level data

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2014

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …

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Mutual gains? : is there a role for employee engagement in the modern workplace?

Bryson, Alex - 2017

I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I...

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Multinationals and plant exit : evidence from Chile

Álvarez, Roberto (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2005

This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and plant exit in Chile. We investigate three main questions: are affiliates of foreign multinationals more likely to exit than domestic firms? Does the exit probability of multinationals depend on its export orientation?, and Does...

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Unions, tripartite competition and innovation

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020

to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union … wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation - particularly product innovation - than competitive pay setting. We test … with process innovation. …

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Services outsourcing and innovation : an empirical investigation

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2009

outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as … instrumental variables analysis. -- Services outsourcing ; offshoring ; innovation ; R&D …

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Suppliers of multinationals and the forced linkage effect : evidence from firm level data

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger - 2013

Using information on more than 1000 firms in a number of emerging countries, we find quantitative evidence that suppliers of multinationals that are pressured by their customers to reduce production costs or develop new products have higher productivity growth than other firms, including other...

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Can you teach old dragons new tricks? : FDI and innovation activity in Chinese state-owned enterprises

Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Gong, Yundan (contributor); … - 2006

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …. -- Innovation ; FDI ; state owned enterprises ; spillovers ; competition ; China …

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Creative disruption : technology innovation, labour demand and the pandemic

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022

We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...

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When does HRM 'work' in small British enterprises?

White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2016

Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in Britain's small enterprises. We find empirical support for the proposition that HPWS have a non-linear association with employees' overall job attitude, with a positive association...

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Are women doing it for themselves? : gender segregation and the gender wage gap

Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2019

Using matched employer-employee data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Surveys (WERS) for Britain we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around half that. However, the GWG declines substantially with...

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