The HRM-performance linkage often invokes an assumption of increased employee commitment to the organization and other positive effects of a motivational type. We present a theoretical framework in which motivational effects of HRM are conditional on its intensity, utilizing especially the idea of HRM „bundling‟. We then analyse the association between HRM practices and employees‟ organisationa...

Several nucleolar proteins, such as ARF, ribosomal protein (RP) L5, L11, L23 and S7, have been shown to induce p53 activation by inhibiting MDM2 E3 ligase activity and consequently to trigger cell cycle arrest and/or apoptosis. Our recent study revealed another nucleolar protein called nucleostemin (NS), a nucleolar GTP binding protein, as a novel regulator of the p53-MDM2 feedback loop. Howeve...

Site-specific information about structural heterogeneities of the protein-folding transition-state ensemble is commonly derived from the scatter of the Brønsted plot through the individual values of = Delta logk(f)/Delta logK(D-N). Here, we provide a second level of site-specific detail in the transition-state analysis by demonstrating that the scatter of the Hammond plot is related to heteroge...

This paper analyses how international outsourcing affects plant total factor productivity (TFP) using a census of Irish manufacturing firms. The results point to a striking pattern: the status of being or becoming an outsourcer matters strongly for firms that are indigenous and not exporting, while for exporters and foreign affiliates, TFP increases are lower, insignificant and sometimes negati...

Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability? We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the electronics sector in Ireland. A particular feature of the data is that it records detailed information for 12 electronics sub-sectors covering both manufacturing ...

This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process of immigrants from Norway, Poland, and Turkey, is brought forth. The comparative approach shows that immigrants in Sweden and Denmark experienced similar decli...

Affiliates of German firms in Eastern Europe differ from those in the rest of the world. They have smaller sales and they employ more labor. Labor productivity is thus lower than in affiliates of German firms elsewhere. Moreover, multinational activity in Eastern Europe is mostly unilaterally whereas, for industrialized countries, bilateral FDI linkages dominate. In this paper, we aim at explai...

This paper analyzes a sequential game where firms decide about outsourcing the production of a non-specific input good to an imperfectly competitive input market. We apply the taxonomy of business strategies introduced by Fudenberg and Tirole (1984) to characterize the different equilibria. We find that outsourcing generally softens competition in the final product market. If firms anticipate t...

The clothing industry is regarded as one the most globalised industries of developed economies, yet most studies focus on the geography of production for US firms and pay scant attention to the geography of trade or to other national cases. This paper broadens the perspective to cover the whole network of German and British clothing firms’ relationships by examining both their supply chain orga...

This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of offshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial protection, the changeover from non-integration to integration is delayed. Employing data on German...