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Family ownership, workplace closure and the recession
Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Gulbrandsen, Trygve - 2016
Using nationally representative Norwegian data we show family-owned workplaces are less likely to close than observationally similar non-family-owned workplaces. But this changed during the Crisis when the family businesses' closure hazard soared. This hike in 2009 was not related to performance...
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Managerial performance of a female-owned and home-based firm
Oladipo, Oluwasheyi S.; Platt, Katarzyna; Shim, Hyoung Suk - 2020
Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the differences come from, and how to mitigate them. This...
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Do big inequalities in executive pay hurt firm performance?
Chung, Richard; DeVaro, Jed; Fung, Scott - 2024
Research Question/Issue: Do large, within-firm executive pay differences hurt firm performance? Prior literature shows mixed results concerning the sign of the relationship between executive pay disparity and firm performance. This study evaluates that literature, clarifies what tournament...
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Tournaments and managerial incentives in China's listed firms : new evidence
Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2008
The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has not been examined by the emerging literature on managerial incentives in transition economies. This paper is the first attempt to fill this important gap in the literature. The...
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Boards of directors in Russian publicly traded companies in 1998-2014 : structure, dynamics and performance effects
Muravyev, Alexander - 2016
This paper provides new evidence on the structure, dynamics and performance effects of corporate boards in publicly traded companies in Russia. It takes advantage of a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded in the RTS/MICEX/MOEX over...
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Ownership and pay in Britain
Pendleton, Andrew; Bryson, Alex; Gospel, Howard F. - 2015
Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is linked to ownership dispersion. Using linked workplace-worker data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2011, we find average hourly pay is higher in...
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Are managers more Machiavellian than other employees?
Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2023
.e., those with the highest scores of Machiavellianism are most likely to be managers. It also suggests that the direction of …
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Who lives in the c-suite? : organizational structure and the division of labor in top management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012
number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than … general managers. Using panel data on senior management positions, we explore the relationship between changes in executive … team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments - which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …
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Planning for family succession
Domnisoru, Ciprian; Miller, Robert Allen - 2025
Sons succeed their exiting CEO parents more often than daughters. How do entrepreneurial families reach this gender imbalance, and how does it affect the prospects of their firms and their offspring? Using Finnish administrative data on firms linked to population register data on shareholders...
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Privatization and productivity in Romanian industry : evidence from a comprehensive enterprise panel
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2001
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...
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