Do Sustainable Procurement Practices Improve Organizational Performance?

Organizational Commitment: Do Workplace Practices Matter?

Strategic contracting practices to improve procurement of health commodities

Public-sector entities responsible for procurement of essential medicines and health commodities in developing countries often lack the technical capacity to efficiently ensure supply security. Under strict public scrutiny and pressures to be transparent, many agencies continue to use archaic procurement methods and to depend on inflexible forecasts and cumbersome tendering processes. On the ba...

Economic performance of sustainable farming practices

One of the major goals of the Sustainable Agriculture Farming initiatives at UC Davis is to provide information about the feasibility of adopting conservation tillage and cover cropping at the farm level. The project includes two tillage schemes: standard tillage (ST) and conservation tillage (CT), and three farming methods: conventional, organic, and winter legume cover crop. All three product...

Do mergers improve managerial performance?

Extant studies of mergers and acquisitions have relied on stock price reactions to evaluate the impact of these events. In this paper, we analyze the performance of the Healy et al. (1992) sample over a ten year period using a managerially controlled efficiency measure, data envelopment analysis (DEA). Our individual firm-level year-by-year analyses results indicate that the managerial performa...

Do salaries improve worker performance?

a r t i c l e i n f o We establish the effects of salaries on worker performance by exploiting a natural experiment in which some workers in a particular occupation (football referees) switch from short-term contracts to salaried contracts. Worker performance improves among those who move onto salaried contracts relative to those who do not. The finding is robust to the introduction of worker f...