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Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover : The Case of Ukraine
Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
ownership and supervisory board size, we do find significant entrenchments effects associated with ownership by managers …
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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms : New Evidence
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2021
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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Family Ownership, Workplace Closure and the Recession
Bryson, Alex - 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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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Guadalupe, Maria - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104934
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Ownership and Pay in Britain
Pendleton, Andrew - 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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HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces : Evidence from the 2004 WERS
Siebert, Stanley - 2011
This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within workplaces in the corporate sector is our focus. This family-run group represents nationally about 26% of workplaces and 14% of employment. We find that employees in this group...
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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117183
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Does Local Business Ownership Insulate Cities from Economic Shocks?
Kolko, Jed - 2009
We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses ﾖ namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...
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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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Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality : The Key Role of Innovative Procedures
Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key role in explaining the effect of ownership status...
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