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Non-wage benefits, corporate ownership and firm performance in post-communist economies: evidence from Ukraine

journal contribution
posted on 2017-01-01, 00:00 authored by M Michelotti, Andrea VocinoAndrea Vocino, P Gahan, J Roloff
The economic reforms in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe have fundamentally reshaped ownership and governance of economic production, notably through the privatization of former state-owned enterprises. These reforms were expected to transform management practices by displacing ‘cradle-to-grave’ welfare arrangements administered by state-owned enterprises. Using data drawn from two large samples of Ukrainian establishments, we investigate, in two different time points, the relationship between non-wage benefits and firm performance during the period of transition to a market economy (1994–2004). We found that non-wage benefits continued to be a critical feature of HRM practices in Ukraine during this period, and were positively associated with firm performance.

History

Journal

International journal of human resource management

Volume

28

Issue

20

Pagination

2861 - 2892

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Location

London, Eng.

ISSN

1466-4399

eISSN

1466-4399

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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