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New products and corruption: evidence from Indian firms.

Waldemar, Felipe Starosta de - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2011

It has been shown that corruption has a negative effect on firm productivity, but what about its impact on product innovation? We find that corruption, functioning as a bribe tax, diminishes the probability of new product introduction. We use a World Bank Enterprise Survey from India in 2005,...

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Temporary Agency Work and Firm Performance: Evidence from German Establishment-Level Panel Data

Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel - 2009

establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to thequestion, whether there are performance differences between firms using … provides the following results. First, we find aninverse U-shaped relationship between the share of TAWs and firm performance …

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Team performance and the optimal spread of talent

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Papps, Kerry L. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Alex Bryson and colleagues use US baseball data to investigate whether performance suffers if there is too wide a gap …

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Executive perks: Compensation and corporate performance in China

Adithipyangkul, Pattarin; Alon, Ilan; Zhang, Tianyu - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 28 (2011) 2, pp. 401-425

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Does Manager Turnover Improve Firm Performance? Evidence from Dutch Soccer, 1986–2004

Weel, Bas - In: De Economist 159 (2011) 3, pp. 279-303

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A note on testing for complementarity and substitutability in the case of multiple practices

Carree, Martin; Lokshin, Boris; Belderbos, René - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 35 (2011) 3, pp. 263-269

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Temporary Agency Work and Firm Competitiveness: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms

Nielen, Sebastian; Schiersch, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper addresses the relationship between the utilization of temporary agency workers by firms and their competitiveness measured by unit labor costs, using a rich, newly built, data set of German manufacturing enterprises. The analysis is conducted by applying different panel data models...

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Examining the relationship between firm internationalization and firm performance: A nonparametric analysis

Halkos, George; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

by investigating if firms’ internationalization levels have an impact on their performance. Using a sample of ten … reveal that there is a positive influence on firms’ performance. …

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Effects of Selected Corporate Governance Characteristics on Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Kenya

Ongore, Vincent O.; Peter O. K’Obonyo - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 1 (2011) 3, pp. 99-122

This paper examines the interrelations among ownership, board and manager characteristics and firm performance in a … and diverse ownership forms. Firm performance is measured using Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE) and … positive relationship between foreign, insider, institutional and diverse ownership forms, and firm performance. However, the …

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Firm Growth and Profitability:The Role of Mobile IT and Organizational Practices

Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010

the firms performance. The data suggest that mobile connectivity as such does not significantly contribute to the firms … mobility associated with the use of a pertinent economic incentive scheme and a systematic performance monitoring seems to …

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