scholarly journals Diversity of experience and labor productivity in creative industries

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Orsa Kekezi
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
Cognitive Distance ◽  
Knowledge Transfers ◽  
Industry Experience ◽  
Previous Occupation ◽  
Employee Data

AbstractThis paper studies how the previous experience among workers relates to the labor productivity of the creative industries in Sweden. Effective knowledge transfers are dependent on the cognitive distance among employees. Using longitudinal matched employer-employee data, I measure the portfolio of the skills within a workplace through (i) the workers' previous occupation, and (ii) the industry they have been working in previously. Estimates show that diversity of occupational experience is positive for labor productivity, but the diversity of industry experience is not. When distinguishing between related and unrelated diversity, the relatedness of occupational experience is positive for labor productivity, while unrelated occupational experience instead shows negative relationship with productivity. These results point towards the importance of occupational skills that workers bring with them to a new employment, for labor productivity.

scholarly journals Unveiling the Nexus between Access to Electricity, Firm Size and SME’s Performance in Bangladesh: New Evidence Using PSM

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (20) ◽  
pp. 6493
Author(s):  
Mohammad Abir Shahid Chowdhury ◽  
Shuai Chuanmin ◽  
Marcela Sokolová ◽  
ABM Munibur Rahman ◽  
Ahsan Akbar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Electricity Access ◽  
The Impact

Uninterrupted availability of energy and power resources is essential for the productivity and smooth functioning of an enterprise. However, constrained by financial resources, smaller firms in developing economies face a plethora of challenges concerning the access to electricity. However, less attention has been paid in the extant literature to explore this phenomenon. The present study investigates the impact of access to electricity on labor productivity in Bangladesh in the presence of electricity constraints, electricity obstacles, and SME firm size. It employs the OLS regression and propensity score matching (PSM) technique for treatment effect to deal with the selection bias and endogeneity issue using the World Bank Enterprise Survey’s cross-sectional firm-level data for 3196 sample firms over the period of 2007–2013. The results provide evidence in support of SMEs’ labor productivity in response to electricity access. Lack of electricity access was partially found to affect SMEs’ labor productivity significantly negatively. Further, the results show a positive impact of firm size on firm performance. However, results from this model appear that constrained SMEs’ access to electricity has a negative relationship with firm performance. The article then suggests several policy implications on changing government regulations regarding the efficient use of renewable energy resources to enhance electricity generation for optimized SME performance and sustainable economic development in Bangladesh.

scholarly journals Family Involvement in Middle Management and Its Impact on the Labor Productivity of Family Firms

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiongjing Hu ◽  
Yanlong Zhang ◽  
Jingjing Yao
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Labor Mobility ◽  
Middle Management ◽  
Level Structure ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Middle Level

ABSTRACTFamily business owners and researchers tend to overwhelmingly focus on the top-level structure of firms but ignore the middle-level practice – involving family members in the middle-management team. Compared to top managers at the strategic apex, middle-level managers are mainly responsible for internal operations and control, and the composition of the middle-management team has an immediate and direct impact on the overall workforce efficiency of family firms. Integrating agency theory and organizational justice perspective, we proposed that family involvement in middle management would have a negative impact on the labor productivity of family firms. We further corroborated this effect by identifying three boundary conditions at the individual (i.e., familial CEO), organizational (i.e., firm size), and regional (i.e., labor mobility) levels. Using a sample of 1,284 privately owned family firms in China, we found that family involvement in middle management, measured as the percentage of familial middle-level managers, was negatively associated with labor productivity. Furthermore, this negative relationship existed only when the CEO is a family member rather than a professional manager, when the size of the firm is large rather than small, or when the firm is located in regions with low rather than high labor mobility. These findings contribute to family business literature and provide practical implications for human resource management in family firms.

scholarly journals User involvement before the development of an indoor RPAS for the creative industries

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 175682932199214
Author(s):  
Blanca de-Miguel-Molina ◽  
María de-Miguel-Molina ◽  
Virginia Santamarina-Campos ◽  
Marival Segarra-Oña
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Aerial Vehicle

This paper presents user needs and preferences gathered prior to the development of an indoor remotely piloted air system. A literature review was carried out to analyse previous studies about the involvement of users in the design of indoor unmanned aerial vehicles. Subsequently, the results of these user needs obtained from three focus groups held in European countries (Belgium, Spain and United Kingdom) are presented here. Through a content analysis of the information obtained in the focus groups, 40 codes and 4 variables were defined and used to examine the differences between types of users and their previous experience with drones. The literature review gave support to the results obtained through users’ involvement in the features to be included in a new unmanned aerial vehicle. Non-parametric tests and qualitative comparative analysis were used to analyse the information gathered in the focus groups. The results revealed few differences between artists working in creative industries and drone operators working for the creative industries. These differences affected features such as detecting and avoiding obstacles, which requires the inclusion of sensors. In addition, previous experience with drones was found to be a sufficient condition to explain greater concerns over safety, ethical and security issues in indoor environments.

CEO power and labor productivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-165
Author(s):  
Emily Breit ◽  
Xuehu (Jason) Song ◽  
Li Sun ◽  
Joseph Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Labor Cost ◽  
Ceo Power ◽  
Cost Component ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Labor Efficiency

Purpose This paper aims to examine how Chief Executive Officer (CEO) power affects firm-level labor productivity. Design/methodology/approach The authors rely on regression analysis to examine the relation between CEO power and labor productivity. Findings Following prior research (i.e. the sequential rank order tournament theory), the authors predict that powerful CEOs lead to high labor productivity. They find a significant and positive relationship between CEO power and labor productivity. They further decompose labor productivity into labor efficiency and labor cost components and find a positive (negative) relationship between CEO power and labor efficiency (cost) component, suggesting that more powerful CEOs better manage labor efficiency and control labor cost. The results are also robust to various additional tests. Originality/value This study contributes to two streams of research: the CEO power literature in finance and the labor productivity and cost literature in accounting. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, it is the first study that performs a direct empirical test on the relation between CEO power and labor productivity.

The impact of crime on the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 993-1010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Motta
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
The Impact

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are in the forefront of economic policy in developing economies, playing critical role in local economic growth and development. SMEs tend to serve local rather than global markets. However, several obstacles prevent greater participation of SMEs in the economy. Among them, crime is a major issue that negatively affects local development in developing countries, as robbery, theft, vandalism and arson increase the cost of doing business. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between crime and firm performance for Latin American SMEs in both service and hospitality sectors, using labor productivity as a measure of firm performance. Labor productivity is a key concern in Latin America as institution-related issues of corruption, infrastructure, regulations, trade policies, access to finance, and human capital may reduce the efficiency of firms in developing economies. The overall findings suggest that there is a negative relationship between criminal activity and firm performance for SMEs in Latin America.

scholarly journals Factors affecting labor productivity: Evidence in listed companies in Vietnam

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Le Thanh Tung
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to deeply clarify the impact of some factors on labor productivity with the sample of 244 companies which listed on the Vietnam Stock Exchange in 2011-2013. Labor productivity determined in two ways: (i) the divide of revenue and the number of labor, (ii) the divide of profit after tax and the number of labor. Results showed that wage and company age have a positive relationship (helpful impact) to increase the labor productivity. However, the results also indicated that the number of employees has a negative relationship (harmful impact) to decrease the labor productivity of the companies during the study period.

scholarly journals Severity of U.S. Construction Worker Injuries, 2015-2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 06038 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Passmore ◽  
Chungil Chae ◽  
Victoria Borkovskaya ◽  
Rose Baker ◽  
Jeong-Ha Yim
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Fatal Injury ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Nonfatal Injuries ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics ◽  
Industry Experience ◽  
Control Study ◽  
The U.S

Workers in the U.S. construction industry experience workplace hazards that can lead to work-related injuries that sometimes are fatal. Reported in this paper is a case-control study of risks factors associated with 4,845 injured workers and their work environments that led to fatal rather than nonfatal injuries during 2015-2017. These injury data originally were assembled from information collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that were used in a machine learning competition, but were repurposed for this secondary analysis of injury risks. Sixty-one percent of workers recorded in this dataset were injured fatally. Multiple logistic regression was applied to model the probability of a fatal injury as a function of the nature of the injury, part of body injured, human factors involved, whether the injured worker was carrying out a regularly assigned task at the time of the injury, and the manner in which the injury was inflicted. Related positively, relative to benchmarks, to the probability of a fatality injury were: falls and strikes; electrocution; asphyxiation and drowning; injury to the head and neck; and working at a task not regularly assigned. Negatively related to the probability of a fatal injury were: chemical/temperature burns; amputation and crushing; fractures and dislocations; injuries to fingers, hands, wrists, and other extremities; and falls from an elevation or to the same level, although this last negative relationship is anomalous in the light of independent research findings. Findings of this study do not necessarily culpable causes of work-related death. Rather these findings identify risk factors that might prove fruitful for further analysis of the incidence, severity, and costs of construction injuries.

Macroeconomic Determinants of FDI Inflow: Malaysia Evidence

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-103
Author(s):  
Sridevi R.K. Narayanan ◽  
Hassanudin Mohd Thas Thaker
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Estimation Model ◽  
Fdi Inflows ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Income Per Capita ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Calendar Data

Objective - The main objective of this paper is to investigate whether labor productivity is an important contributing factor to FDI inflows and in turn if FDI enhances labor productivity. Hence, this is ensured by an investigation of whether a bi-directional causality e between FDI and labor productivity exists. Methodology/Technique - To increase the robustness of our estimation model, a few control variables such as Trade Openness, inflation and income per capita in addition to labor productivity are included as explanatory variables in determining FDI inflows. In this paper, we used annual calendar data spanned between 1990 and 2012 and employed the multiple regressions to generate the results. Findings - The finding suggests that labor productivity (LBRPROD) and inflation (INF) have positive relationship with the FDI while income per capita (ICP) and openness (OPN) seems to be negatively related with FDI. The findings from this study are consistent with the past and existing literature where there is strong association between FDI and labor productivity. However, this study also revealed that openness seems to be insignificant towards FDI inflows contradicting past literature which argued that openness plays an important in FDI. But the negative relationship between FDI and trade openness could be addressed via implementation of provision for trade protection. Novelty - Enhance the knowledge in the relationship of LBRPROD and INF with FDI. Type of Paper - Empirical Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment, Labor Productivity, Multiple Regression, Trade Openness, Malaysia.

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