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This paper uses a unique panel dataset on firm-level corruption. It contains quantitative information on bribe payments by a sample of formal and informal Vietnamese firms. We show that bribe incidence is highly associated with firm-level differences in (i) visibility, (ii) sunk costs, (iii)...
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This paper investigates the entrepreneurial spirit in Swedish listed family firms. We associate family firms with entrepreneurship in the sense that there is an identifiable person that takes the uninsurable risk in the sense of Knight. This paper analysis two questions: Do entrepreneurial...
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During the Soviet period industrial firms not only formed the backbone of the economy but also directly provided a wide range of benefits to their municipalities. Firms were in charge of supplying a great variety of social services, such as housing, medical care and day care. The need to divest...
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This paper uses a large matched employer-employee data set for Sweden to analyse several predictions from tournament theory. For white-collar workers, a positive effect of intra-firm wage dispersion on profits and average pay is found. This result is robust to controls for human capital...
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performance by using firm, corporate group, and country level information for the European broadband market between 2002 and 2010 …. Three measures of firm performance are used, namely: market share, revenue and productivity. Special attention is paid to … differences in the impact on the performance measures depending on a firm’s position as either a market incumbent or entrant. We …
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performance, the authors contend that it is necessary to better understand how customer stakeholders perceive firms' environmental …
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diversity, functional diversity and governance mode – affect the financial and innovation outcomes of offshoring. Design … that: location diversity shows a significant “flipped S-shape” relationship with innovation outcomes, but has a negative … impact on financial outcomes, functional diversity has a significant and positive effect on innovation outcome and the use of …
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a research model that considers the impact of SCQM practices on firm performance. Design/methodology/approach – Based on … of firm performance was also developed, including three aspects: operational performance, customer satisfaction and … financial performance. Findings – An innovative conceptual framework that provides a comprehensive picture covering core …
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