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Links between sustainability-related innovation and sustainability management
Wagner, Marcus - 2008
parallel, firms use corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental management systems partly in the hope that this … of CSR and environmental management with environmentally and socially beneficial innovation and its determinants. Based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263737
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Socioeconomic heritage and rapid firm growth
Wyrwich, Michael - 2009
The present paper sheds light on how growth of young firms is affected by expansive strategies and the socioeconomic heritage of their main actors. Socioeconomic heritage has to do with socialization, prior socioeconomic circumstances, and regional growth conditions; the term is elaborated upon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267124
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Incentives for managers and inequality among workers: evidence from a firm level experiment
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2006
We present evidence from a firm level experiment in which we engineered an exogenous change in managerial compensation from fixed wages to performance pay based on the average productivity of lower-tier workers. Theory suggests that managerial incentives affect both the mean and dispersion of...
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Gender differences in subjective well-being in and out of management positions
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market, compared with employment in nonleadership, non-high-level...
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Managerial practices, performance and innovativeness: Some evidence from Finnish manufacturing
Koski, Heli; Marengo, Luigi; Mäkinen, Iiro - 2009
Our study aims at shedding light on the organizational mechanisms that produce differences in the firms' innovation performance. We use a survey data collected from 398 Finnish manufacturing firms for the years 2002 and 2005 to empirically explore whether and which organizational factors explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273021
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Matching and Winning? The Impact of Upper and Middle Managers on Team Performance
Peeters, Thomas; Salaga, Steven; Juravich, Matthew - 2015
estimating manager and match qualities for management pairings in Major League Baseball (MLB). We document the economic …
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The making of a manager: Evidence from military officer training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440144
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The making of a manager: Evidence from military officer training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442463
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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444291
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Wage bargaining and management opposition in the presence of productivity gains and organization costs
Riedl, Arno - 1997
workers, (b) management opposition against workers' organizing drives, (c) the possibility of productivity enhancing effects … of forgone productivity gains puts an upper bound on management opposition against organizing drives of the workers, even … if management opposition is cost-less. Strategic gift exchange - less opposition for higher productivity - plays a …
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