Does Doing Badly Encourage Management Innovation

By Stephen Nickell, Daphne Nicolitsas, M. Patterson. 2001

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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries (2007, unknown): “We use three broad measures of competition following Nickell (1996) and Aghion et al.”
When promoting positive feelings pays: Aggregate job satisfaction, work design features, and innovation in manufacturing organizations (2006, result): “That innovation at Time 1 is unrelated to innovation at Time 2 is consistent with theoretical literature in this area that predicts cycles of rather than sustained innovation (Nickell, Nicolitsas, & Patterson, 2001 ).”
Management Innovation: Management as Fertile Ground for Innovation (2013, unknown): “Challenging economic conditions also trigger management innovation, but may also constrain the number of options a firm has to respond because of limited resources (Nickell et al., 2001).”
Management practices across firms and nations (2005, methodology): “We use three broad measures of competition following Nickell (1996) and Aghion et al.”
Incomplete Contracts and the Internal Organization of Firms (2013, unknown): “The bias could be upwards or downwards (e.g. if firms doing badly are more likely to innovate organizationally as argued by Nickell et al., 2001).”
Labour market deregulation, 'flexibility' and innovation (2003, methodology): “, multi skilled employees)? 2 When designing our questionnaire, we made particular reference to the surveys conducted by Osterman (1994), Ichniowski cía/.”
How to Compete: The Impact of Workplace Practices and Information Technology on Productivity (2001, background): “…because it becomes less expensive to switch systems (as suggested theoretically by Caballero and Hammour (1994) and shown empirically for a sample of British employers by Nickell, Nicolitsas, and Patterson (1996)), then our coefficients on workplace practices will likely be biased downwards.”
How Workers Fare When Employers Innovate (2003, unknown): “For this last factor the literature is mixed, with work by Nickell, Nicolitsas, and Patterson (1996) suggesting that firms that are doing badly are more likely to innovate while others suggesting that, since the innovations are expensive, only those firms that can " afford " financially to do so do.”