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Are Managers More Machiavellian Than Other Employees?

Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2023

Concerns about corporate scandals and abusive leadership suggest that individuals with an opportunistic and manipulative personality take advantage of incomplete incentive and control systems to get their way into managerial positions. Against this background, we examine whether there is an...

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Should I Train or Should I Go? Human Resources, Human Capital, Turnover and Service Quality

Georgiadis, Andreas; Kornelakis, Andreas - 2024

Extant literature documents a relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and performance, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship are still not well understood. We develop a theoretical framework of the HRM-performance relationship fusing an employment systems...

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Variation in labour skills and offshoring across time zones

Prasad, Alaka Shree; Mandal, Biswajit - 2021

The paper extends Dei (2010) to check the role of time zone difference on offshoring of service tasks when the quality of workers varies between the partner countries. We frame a model where partner countries are located in non-overlapping time zones, and the skill level of the partner country...

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Religion and institutions

Mladjan, Mrdjan M.; Nikolova, Elena; Ponomarenko, Olga - 2024

Institutions, defined as "the rules of the game in society", drive economic growth and prosperity. Institutions often … arise from long-term processes influenced by geography, major historical events, culture, and, less commonly, religion. This … financial systems, contract enforcement) and informal (traditions, taboos, codes of conduct) institutions. Church …

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The effect of gender norms on gender-based sorting across occupations

Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2022

Despite the notable progress that has been made in bridging the gap between women and men in the world of work, women are still underrepresented in several occupations. In this article, the effect of gender norms on whether women enter male-dominated occupations is analysed using differences in...

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Gender, culture and STEM: Counter-intuitive patterns in Arab society

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2019

Arab society in Israel offers a counter-example, which calls into question the hypothesis that the male advantage in STEM decreases as gender equality in society increases. Analyzing administrative longitudinal data on students in Hebrew- and Arabic-language schools in Israel, all operating...

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Preserving job matches during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence on the role of government aid

Bennedsen, Morten; Larsen, Birthe; Schmutte, Ian; Scur, … - 2020

We analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and government policies on firms’ aid takeup, layoff and furlough decisions. We collect new survey data for 10,642 small, medium and large Danish firms, and match to government records of all aid-supported furloughed workers during the pandemic as...

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Worker Voice and Political Participation in Civil Society

Budd, John W.; Lamare, J. Ryan - 2020

participation is facilitated by workers' experience with voice, and (b) intentional efforts by voice institutions, especially labor …

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Unions, Collective Bargaining and Firm Performance

Laroche, Patrice - 2020

The impact of unions on firm performance has been the subject of debate and controversy in most industrialized countries, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. The purpose of this chapter is to review and assess the scope and limitations of the economic analysis of unions as...

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'Your Driver is Didi and Minutes Away from Your Pick-Up Point': Understanding Employee Motivation in the Gig Economy of China

Mukhopadhyay, Boidurjo; Chatwin, Chris - 2021

In recognition of the importance and expansion of the gig economy, largely in developed and BRICs economies, along with the growing literature surrounding it, this research contributes towards an empirical and conceptual understanding of how employee motivation and retention are managed by the...

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