Regulation and firm perception, eco‐innovation and firm performance

Regulation and Firm Perception, Eco-Innovation and Firm Performance

Purpose Recent OECD (2010, 2011) reports argue that eco-innovation is the key to realising growth. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the drivers of eco-innovation and to compare the impact of eco-innovation and non-eco-innovation on firm performance. The paper provides insights into the role government regulation can play in directing and stimulating eco-innovation. Design/methodology/app...

Causal Ambiguity, Management Perception and Firm Performance

Intra-firm Wage Dispersion and Firm Performance

Personnel economics has put forward conflicting arguments concerning the impact of increased wage dispersion within a firm on the productivity of its workers. Besides giving more incentives, bigger wage differentials might also give rise to less cooperation and more politicking amongst workers resulting in worse outcomes. We try to shed light on these issues using panel data for Austrian firms....

Firm Risk , Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Tosi and Gomez-Mejia, (1989) suggest that the challenge of corporate governance is to set up supervisory and incentive alignment mechanisms that alter the risk and effort orientation of agents to align them with the interests of principals. Therefore, the objective of this study is to determine the efficiency of monitoring and incentive contracts given certain characteristics of the firm. That ...

Strategy-making Process and Firm Performance in Iranian Pharmaceutical Industry

This study investigated the relationship between main dimensions in the strategy-making process, environmental complexity, and performance in pharmaceutical companies of Iran. Results argue that pharmaceutical companies like other industries place differing emphasis on strategy-making and employ different modes of strategy-making. It offers a typology of different modes of strategy-making that ...