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In this work we analyse to what degree the efficiency of a State owned non-monopolistic enterprise improves as a result of the introduction of strategic reforms consisting of adopting ‘private-firm-like’ management practices, criteria, and governance structure; i.e.: corporatization,...
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In this work we analyse to what degree the efficiency of a publicly owned non-monopolistic enterprise improves as a result of the introduction of strategic organizational reforms consisting of adopting "private-firm-like" management practices, criteria, and governance structure; i.e....
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This paper uses a new data set of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms to evaluate the effects of labor downsizing on firms' technical efficiency, financial performance, and employee wages. Since downsizers and non-downsizers differ greatly in firm characteristics, we use...
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Around the turn of the century, China experienced perhaps the largest labor restructuring program in the world. This paper uses a new data set of Chinese industrial enterprises to examine what leads to downsizing, and tries to understand the effects of labor downsizing on firms' technical...
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Most scholarly impact measures focus exclusively on an essential but single group of stakeholders: other researchers …) stakeholders. Accordingly, we offer an expanded multidimensional and multistakeholder conceptualization of scholarly impact that … includes the following dimensions and their stakeholders: (1) personal (i.e., individual researchers), (2) theory and research …
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stakeholders will appropriate this rent. For example, IO economics focuses on market structure and the resource-based view focuses … strong roles for internal stakeholders may grant them a great deal of bargaining power especially relative to investors who …
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According to the RBV and the knowledge gap theory, the small-business owner with a basic business education is better able to handle the business aspects of an operation. Misunderstanding can range from misinterpretations of the business enterprise to certain aspects of the job, which causes...
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The study concerns the effects of Polish privatisation program conducted in the years 2008-2011. After drawing a broad picture of this process we investigate the performance of 59 privatised companies, and finally focus on a deeper analysis of three companies, which is the core part of our...
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Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear 'shadow of death' effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments shrink dramatically already several years...
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