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Contributions published at Empirical Research in Business, Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management (Uschi Backes-Gellner)

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Silvia Teuber, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Paul Ryan, How do companies adapt their organization to national institutions? Evidence from matched-pair engineering companies, In: 74th Jahrestagung des Verbands der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft. 2012. (Conference Presentation) null
Yvonne Oswald, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Learning for a bonus: How financial incentives interact with preferences, In: 74. Jahrestagung des Verbands der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft . 2012. (Conference Presentation) null
Christian Rupietta, Uschi Backes-Gellner, High quality workplace training and innovation in highly developed countries, In: UZH Business Research Seminar. 2012. (Conference Presentation) null
Uschi Backes-Gellner, Wohlstand sichern - Betriebe der Zukunft, In: Demografietagung im Bundeskanzleramt. 2012. (Conference Presentation) null
Christian Rupietta, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Is apprenticeship training important for innovation in highly developed countries?, In: Spring Meeting of Young Economists. 2012-04-26. (Conference Presentation) null
Johannes Meuer, Barbara Krug, Tao Wang, Patrick Reinmoeller, How effective is China’s (Central) Government in orchestrating Chinese Outward M&A? , In: Conference on Chinese foreign direct investment in the EU. 2012. (Conference Presentation) null
Christian Rupietta, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Is apprenticeship training important for innovation in highly developed countries?, In: Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES). 2012-04-12. (Conference Presentation) null
Johannes Meuer, Margot Schueller, Schüler-Zhou Yun, China's OFDI Footprint in Europe: Investment Patterns, Drivers and Implications, In: DG Enterprise and Industry Brown-Bag Seminar. 2012. (Conference Presentation) null
Simone Balestra, Uschi Backes-Gellner, When a door closes a window opens? Investigating the effects and determinants of involuntary separations, In: 15th Colloquium in Personnel Economics. 2012-03-14. (Conference Presentation) null
Christian Rupietta, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Are Apprenticeship-training Firms more Innovative than Non-apprenticeship-training Firms?, In: 15th Colloquium on Personnel Economics. 2012. (Conference Presentation) null
Johannes Meuer, Wao Tang, Patrick Reinmoeller, Does China's (Central) Government Matter?, In: GIGA Seminar in Socio-Economics. 2012. (Conference Presentation) null
Simone Tuor Sartore, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Another Effect of Education: Educational Diversity and Workers' Pay, In: Bildungsökonomischer Ausschuss im Verein für Socialpolitik. 2012. (Conference Presentation) null
Yvonne Oswald, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Learning for a bonus: How financial incentives interact with preferences, In: Brown Bag Lunch Seminar (CEPA Higher Education Grad Student Group). 2012. (Conference Presentation) null
Silvia Teuber, Uschi Backes-Gellner, How do companies adapt their organization to national institutions? Evidence from matched-pair engineering companies, In: Netzwerktreffen. 2012. (Conference Presentation) null
Christian Rupietta, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Are apprenticeship-training firms more innovative than non-apprenticeship-training firms?, In: Netzwerktreffen. 2012. (Conference Presentation) null
Simone Balestra, Uschi Backes-Gellner, When a door closes a window opens? Investigating the effects and determinants of involuntary separations, In: Netzwerktreffen. 2012. (Conference Presentation) null
Uschi Backes-Gellner, Sara Brunner, Duale Berufsbildung wird unterschätzt - Akademiker starten nicht immer von der Poleposition, In: Swiss Leading House "Economics of Education" Working Paper, No. 84, 2012. (Working Paper)
Uschi Backes-Gellner, Silvia Teuber, How do companies adapt their organization to national institutions: evidence from matched-pair engineering companies, In: Swiss Leading House "Economics of Education" Working Paper, No. 82, 2012. (Working Paper) Companies face competitive advantages or disadvantages depending on a country’s national institutional setting. The question is whether and how companies with highly similar product markets and technologies are able to stay competitive if they are located in disadvantaged national institutional settings. Building on the Varieties of Capitalism approach, we analyze the effect of different national institutional settings on one important characteristic of a company’s organizational structure, the span of control of production supervisors. Through plant interviews, we generated a unique dataset of matched-pair engineering companies in Germany, Switzerland, the UK, and the U.S. The findings indicate that the span of control is an important mechanism of adjustment to national institutional settings. Production supervisors in companies producing in coherently coordinated market economy like Germany have on average a broader span of control than those in coherently liberal market economy like the U.S. However, in mixed institutional settings like Switzerland and the UK, we find companies with a broad and companies with a narrow span of control, thus indicating that companies have the strategic power to adjust with their own company-level institutions to either complementing or substituting national institutions.
Petra Moog, Arndt Werner, Stefan Houweling, Uschi Backes-Gellner, The impact of skills, working time allocation and peer effects on the entrepreneurial intentions of scientists, In: UZH Business Working Paper, No. 325, 2012. (Working Paper) To date, little is known about the effects of the composition of skills on academic entrepreneurship. Therefore, in this paper, following Lazear’s (2005) jack-of-all-trades approach, we study how his or her composition of skills affects a scientist’s intention of becoming an entrepreneur. Extending Lazear, we examine how the effect of balanced entrepreneurial skills is moderated by a balanced working time allocations and peer effects. Using unique data collected from 480 life sciences researchers, we provide the first evidence that scientists with more balanced skills are more likely to have higher entrepreneurial intentions, particularly when they are in contact with entrepreneurial peers. Furthermore, we find even higher entrepreneurial intentions when balanced skill sets are combined with balanced working time allocations. Thus, to encourage the entrepreneurial intentions of life scientists, one has to ensure that they are exposed to diverse work experiences, have balanced working time allocations across different activities and work with entrepreneurial peers; i.e., collaborating with colleagues or academic scientists who have started new ventures in the past is important.
Christian Pfeifer, Simon Janssen, Philip Yang, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Training participation of a firm's aging workforce, Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, Vol. 4 (2), 2012. (Journal Article) We use a long panel data set for four cohorts of male blue-collar workers entering into an internal labor market to analyze the effect of age on the probability of participating in different employer-financed training measures. We find that training participation probabilities are inverted u-shaped with age and that longer training measures are undertaken earlier in life and working career. These findings are consistent with predictions from a human capital model that incorporates amortization period and screening effects.

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