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  1. Delayering and firm performance
    evidence from Swiss firm-level data
    Author: Kuhn, Dieter
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  WWZ, Basel

    The past decades witnessed a broad trend towards flatter organizations with less hierarchical layers. A reduction of the number of management levels in a corporation can have both positive and negative effects on firm performance with the net effect... more

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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    The past decades witnessed a broad trend towards flatter organizations with less hierarchical layers. A reduction of the number of management levels in a corporation can have both positive and negative effects on firm performance with the net effect being theoretically unclear ex ante. The present study uses a nationally representative data set of firms in Switzerland and empirically examines the direct performance effects of delayering. Applying ordinary least squares regressions and propensity score matching, this study finds that delayering significantly increases subsequent firm performance. It can be concluded that flatter hierarchical structures seem to enable firms to better realize their competitive advantage in today's fast moving and knowledge-intensive market environment.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/123416
    Series: WWZ Discussion Paper ; 11,02
    Subjects: Hierarchie; Organisatorischer Wandel; Dezentrale Organisation; Unternehmensorganisation; Unternehmenserfolg; Schweiz; Delayering; management levels; hierarchical layers; hierarchy; firm performance; treatment effects; selection bias
    Scope: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 18, XI S.), graph. Darst.
  2. Trust-based working time and organizational performance
    evidence from German establishment-level panel data
    Author: Beckmann, Michael; Hegedues, Istvan
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  WWZ, Basel

    This paper empirically examines the impact of trust-based working time on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Trust-based working time is a human resource management practice that involves a high degree of worker autonomy in... more

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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    DS 523 (2011,13)
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    This paper empirically examines the impact of trust-based working time on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Trust-based working time is a human resource management practice that involves a high degree of worker autonomy in terms of scheduling individual working time. From the theoretical viewpoint, trust-based working time may affect worker motivation positively as well as negatively. Therefore, at the establishment level the performance effects of trust-based working time remain an open question. The analysis shows that both establishment productivity and profitability increase with the diffusion of trust-based working time. Referring only to establishments with trust-based working time arrangements, both performance effects are estimated at about 1-2 percent, while in the full sample both per- formance effects are stronger ranging between about 2.5 and 5 percent.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/123421
    Series: WWZ discussion paper ; 11,13
    Subjects: Arbeitszeitgestaltung; Vertrauen; Arbeitsproduktivität; Unternehmenswachstum; Deutschland; Trust-based working time; working time flexibility; firm performance
    Scope: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 35 S.), graph. Darst.