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Local Dividend Clienteles
Becker, Bo - 2010
We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on corporate payout policy. Retail investors tend to hold local stocks and older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically-varying demand for dividends. Firms...
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How are Employers Responding to an Aging Workforce?
Clark, Robert L.; Ritter, Beth - 2022
The American population is aging and changes in the population’s age structure are leading to an aging of the nation’s workforce. In addition, changes to age specific participation rates are exacerbating the aging of the national labor force. An important challenge for firms and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324531
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Modern Management : Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …
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The Internal Governance of Firms
Acharya, Viral V. - 2010
We develop a model of internal governance where the self-serving actions of top management are limited by the potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149975
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Matching Firms, Managers and Incentives
Bandiera, Oriana - 2012
We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The data includes manager characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115322
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Two better than one : the link between management systems and business performance
Vílchez, Vera Ferrón; Darnall, Nicole - In: Business strategy and the environment 25 (2016) 4, pp. 221-240
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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms
Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2015
secure persistently superior performance via investments in better management and organization. We empirically analyze the … management is driven by two key organizational trade-offs: employee initiative vs. coordination as well as exploration of novel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030140
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Walking on the gender tightrope : unlocking ESG potential through CEOs' dynamic capabilities and strategic board composition
Heubeck, Tim - In: Business strategy and the environment 33 (2024) 3, pp. 2020-2039
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The role of radical innovation in circular strategy deployment
Arekrans, Johan; Ritzén, Sofia; Laurenti, Rafael - In: Business strategy and the environment 32 (2023) 3, pp. 1085-1105
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Corporate environmentalism strategy in the Spanish consumer product sector : a typology of firms
Buil-Carrasco, Isabel; Fraj-Andrés, Elena; … - In: Business strategy and the environment 17 (2008) 6, pp. 350-368
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