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2014
With the evolution of information technology, firms offshore outsource services to developing and low service cost countries to have cost as well competitive advantages. This is a growing practice, but there has been limited empirical attention in understanding the outsourcing phenomenon, particularly from the perspective of service provider firms that
Soni Agrawal +2 more
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With the evolution of information technology, firms offshore outsource services to developing and low service cost countries to have cost as well competitive advantages. This is a growing practice, but there has been limited empirical attention in understanding the outsourcing phenomenon, particularly from the perspective of service provider firms that
Soni Agrawal +2 more
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Entrepreneurial Firm Performance
2015This chapter discusses entrepreneurial firm performance in high-tech small and medium enterprises. The chapter begins with a broad discussion of entrepreneurship in SMEs. Then a comprehensive conceptual framework of study is introduced and discussed. The chapter also provides empirical analysis of the proposed research framework.
Mina Tajvidi, Azhdar Karami
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Appropriability, Preemption, and Firm Performance
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007Abstract The impact of strategies used to appropriate innovation rents on firm performance is analyzed using a sample of U.S. public manufacturing firms. Stronger appropriability at the firm level, achieved through patent protection or the ownership of specialized complementary assets, leads to superior economic performance, as ...
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Relational Investing And Firm Performance
Journal of Financial Research, 2003AbstractA substantial academic and popular literature argues that the performance of American corporations might improve if American corporations had long‐term outside investors (relational investors) who would hold large stakes, actively monitor management performance, and engage with management in setting corporate policy. Institutional investors can
Sanjai Bhagat +2 more
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Portfolio Concentration and Firm Performance
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2012AbstractThis paper investigates the relation between shareholders’ portfolio concentration and firm performance. Using data on more than 1.3 million unique shareholders, we create an index that measures how concentrated shareholder portfolios are in each firm.
Maury, Benjamin, Ekholm, Anders
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Within-Firm Pay Inequality and Firm Performance
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022Antonio De Vito, Juan-Pedro Gomez
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Organizational Design and Firm Performance
2013This chapter provides a critical survey of the stream of studies that have examined the effect of organizational design decisions on firm performance. The focus is on selected organizational design dimensions that can be measured using quantitative indicators, notably i) organizationalconfiguration, ii) allocation of decision-making authority, and iii)
COLOMBO, MASSIMO GAETANO +2 more
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LABOR LAWS AND FIRM PERFORMANCE
Journal of Financial Research, 2017AbstractU.S. labor laws impose higher costs on unionized firms in states without right‐to‐work (RTW) laws. I find that these firms experience poor stock performance. The difference‐in‐differences analysis comparing the effect of RTW laws on unionized and nonunionized firms shows that unionized firms in states without RTW laws underperform by about 7 ...
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2004
This chapter deals with incentive schemes which are based on firm performance measures. It addresses the question whether it makes sense to pay workers according to firm’s performance. The answer will rest on a trade-off between misallocation and uncertainty.
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This chapter deals with incentive schemes which are based on firm performance measures. It addresses the question whether it makes sense to pay workers according to firm’s performance. The answer will rest on a trade-off between misallocation and uncertainty.
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