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Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Papps, Kerry L. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over …

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Firm age and performance

Loderer, Claudio; Waelchli, Urs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

As firms grow older, their profitability seems to decline. We first document this phenomenon and show that it is very robust. Then we offer two non-exclusive explanations of why firms may age. First, corporate aging could reflect a cementation of organizational rigidities over time. Consistent...

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Compliance with the German Corporate Governance Code and firm performance: a ten-year experience

Stiglbauer, Markus; Velte, Patrick - In: International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 5-23

' capital market performance significantly positive. The findings give good reason to discuss whether in view of the behavioural …

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Technology transfer, technological accumulation and firm economic performance: the case for Ellas

Tselekidis, Giannis - In: Global Business and Economics Review 4 (2002) 2, pp. 243-260

transfer arrangements, the relationship between firm economic performance and firm technological accumulation efforts. The …

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ANS-based preprocessing of company performance indicators

Vasili?s N. Nikolaidis; Makris, Ilias A.; … - In: Global Business and Economics Review 15 (2013) 1, pp. 49-58

classify the companies in performance groups, using: a) minimal pre-processing of the original company data; b) dimensionality …

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Human capital elements and performance of small-scale manufacturing firms in Tanzania

Mahadea, Darma; Mkocha, Aira; Ramroop, Shaun - In: International Journal of Education Economics and Development 3 (2012) 2, pp. 164-178

capital elements of entrepreneurs and workers on enterprise performance in Tanzania over the period 1999-2003. Regression and … elements of labour and the entrepreneur together with physical capital are found to be critical predictors of performance, with …

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Embedding, knowledge transfer, industry clusters and global competitiveness with firm performance: case study of the Iran

Maroofi, Fakhrddin; Sadqi, Farzad - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 13 (2012) 2, pp. 139-157

enhancement of firm performance comes as a consequence of clustering at the location level, inter-organisational trust at the … investing in the Iran, we find that resources and the mechanisms of system dependence have a positive impact on performance … competitiveness and resources interact with clustering to positively impact firm performance. The implications of the framework for …

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Financial performance and voluntary environmental disclosures during the Asian Financial Crisis: the case of Hong Kong

Kimbro, Marinilka B.; Melendy, Sara R. - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 12 (2010) 1, pp. 72-85

very low. This study contributes to the research on VED by examining the association of VED levels and firm performance in … indicating their superior financial performance. After controlling for capital and debt structure, the statistically significant …

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Imitation or innovation to enhance the performance: an empirical investigation of 258 Chinese firms

Liu, Dawei - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 12 (2011) 4, pp. 377-395

performance in seven different industries in China. Firstly, we delineate and distinguish the concepts of innovation and imitation …This paper is focused on the factors which determined the adoption of innovation or imitation strategies on firm … entrepreneurial orientations, on the decision to innovate or to imitate. Thirdly, we relate this decision to the company's performance …

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Application matters: how different corporate portfolio management practices impact firm performance

Untiedt, Robert; Nippa, Michael; Pidun, Ulrich - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 14 (2013) 2, pp. 197-220

performance are suggestive of proving a rather negative effect. Beyond just revisiting and reassessing prior research, this paper … performance. Applying a multi-method approach of qualitative interviews, a global survey among senior executives of the world … frequency and rigor of CPM usage and corporate performance which partly contrasts previous research. Furthermore, considerable …

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