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People versus Incentives: The Causes and Consequences of Managerial Change in Ukraine and the Complementary

Warzynski, Frederic - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2000

chenge on firm performance, using survey data from 300 Ukrainian firms. The main findings are: (i) Ownership and Competition … managerial change are complementary measures to improve the performance of the firm. …

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Firm-Level Corruption in Vietnam

Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

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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How Much Do Strategic Groups Matter?

González-Fidalgo, Eduardo; Ventura-Victoria, Juan - In: Review of Industrial Organization 21 (2002) 1, pp. 55-71

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Insider ownership and corporate performance: evidence from Germany

Kaserer, Christoph; Moldenhauer, Benjamin - In: Review of Managerial Science 2 (2008) 1, pp. 1-35

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Swedish Listed Family Firms and Entrepreneurial Spirit

Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Palmberg, Johanna - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

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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Coping with missing public infrastructure: An analysis of Russian industrial enterprises

Solanko, Laura - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2006

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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Pay Inequality and Firm Performance: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Heyman, Fredrik - Stiftelsen facköreningsrörelsens Institut för … - 2002

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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Regulatory Environment and Firm Performance in EU Telecommunications Services

Montolio, Daniel; Trillas, Francesc; Trujillo-Baute, Elisa - In: Review of Network Economics 13 (2014) 3, pp. 271-302

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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Stakeholder perceptions of green marketing: the effect of demand and supply integration

Kirchoff, Jon F.; Koch, Chris; Satinover Nichols, Bridget - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 41 (2011) 7, pp. 684-696

performance, the authors contend that it is necessary to better understand how customer stakeholders perceive firms' environmental …

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Global offshoring portfolio diversity and performance implications

Lin, Nidthida; Tan, Hao; Chen, Stephen - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 47 (2017) 2/3, pp. 114-136

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how three key dimensions of a firm’s offshoring portfolio – location diversity, functional diversity and governance mode – affect the financial and innovation outcomes of offshoring. Design/methodology/approach The authors investigate the...

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