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Profits may lead teams to lose matches, but scoring goals does not lead to profit
Sánchez, Luis Carlos; Barajas, Angel; … - In: European Research on Management and Business Economics … 26 (2020) 1, pp. 26-32
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between profitability and sporting performance in European … football. Profitability has been rarely studied because it has not been considered an aim of European clubs, in contrast with … owners can be diverse and that profitability has to be taken into account. The study of the compatibility or incompatibility …
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Plundered or profitably pumped-up? : the effects of private equity takeover
Kärnä, Anders; Myers, Samantha - 2024
We study the effects on firms that are acquired by private equity firms in a leveraged buyout, using detailed Swedish registry data covering 1998-2022. Acquired firms see a large increase in their debt and debt related variables, but no significant change in productivity. This suggests that, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015135274
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Profits may lead teams to lose matches, but scoring goals does not lead to profit
Sánchez, Luis Carlos; Barajas, Angel; … - In: European research on management and business economics 26 (2020) 1, pp. 26-32
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between profitability and sporting performance in European … football. Profitability has been rarely studied because it has not been considered an aim of European clubs, in contrast with … owners can be diverse and that profitability has to be taken into account. The study of the compatibility or incompatibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202772
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Feminist firms
Bennett, Benjamin; Erel, Isil; Stern, Léa; Wang, Zexi - 2019
We explore how lowering labor market frictions for female workers affects corporate performance. Using the staggered adoption of state-level Paid Family Leave acts, we provide causal evidence on the value created by relieving frictions to accessing female talent, for private and public firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168906
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Plundered or profitably pumped-up? The effects of private equity takeover
Kärnä, Anders; Myers, Samantha - 2024
We study the effects on firms that are acquired by private equity firms in a leveraged buyout, using detailed Swedish registry data covering 1998-2022. Acquired firms see a large increase in their debt and debt related variables, but no significant change in productivity. This suggests that, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015195427
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014566220
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Do politicians affect firm outcomes? Evidence from connections to the German Federal Parliament
Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; Weber, Andrea - 2024
We study how connections to German federal parliamentarians affect firm dynamics by constructing a novel dataset to measure connections between politicians and the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political power, we exploit (i) new appointments to the company...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567577
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Hard and soft locational factors, innovativeness and firm performance: an empirical test of Porter's Diamond model at the micro-level
Eickelpasch, Alexander; Lejpras, Anna; Stephan, Andreas - 2007
This paper investigates predictions of Porter's Diamond model regarding the impact of locational factors on innovativeness and performance at the firm level. We formulate a structural equation model based on the relationships between locational conditions, e.g., transportation infrastructure,...
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A naturalistic approach to the theory of the firm: the role of cooperation and cultural evolution
Cordes, Christian; Richerson, Peter J.; McElreath, Richard - 2006
One reason why firms exist, this paper argues, is because they are suitable organizations within which cooperative production systems based on human social predispositions can evolve. In addition, we show how an entrepreneur - given these predispositions - can shape human behavior within a firm....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266747
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Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen der Informations- und Kommunikationswirtschaft in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Maaß, Frank; Schröder, Christian; Wolter, Hans-Jürgen - 2013
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den IKT-Sektor in Nordrhein-Westfalen anhand von Sonderauswertungen der amtlichen Statistik des Umsatzsteuerpanels sowie der Daten einer eigenen Unternehmensbefragung. Dabei erweist sich dieses Bundesland als Standort mit einem weitgehend prosperierenden...
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