Institutional Inertia /

We study the relative efficiency of outside-owned versus employee-owned firms and analyze implications for institutional change in a context of technological innovation. When decisions are made through majority voting, the vote on technology choice is used to influence the later vote on the sharing...

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第一著者: Valderrama, Laura
フォーマット: 雑誌
言語:English
出版事項: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
シリーズ:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/193
オンライン・アクセス:Full text available on IMF
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