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Marcela Sapone
the magic of staying at a fancy hotel,” Sapone said. “We are giving hotel service at home for a very accessible price. It is basically Clay Christensen’s disruption theory in practice.” Alfred offers an ever-expanding... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
Accounting & Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
R. Kerr Publication:The American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Why do firms cluster near one another? We test Marshall's (1920) theories of industrial agglomeration by examining which industries locate near one another, or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016
Behavioral Decision Making The Impact of 'Display-Set' Options on Decision-Making By: Karmarkar, Uma R. Abstract—The way a choice set is constructed can have a significant influence on how individuals perceive and evaluate their options... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8
Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private and public capital flows for a large cross-section of developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
abstract description, can affect their behavior. We examined the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary prediction tasks. Theories of the Gambler's Fallacy and models of binary prediction suggest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
Project Complexity and Systems Integration: Constructing the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games By: Davies, Andrew, and Ian Mackenzie Abstract—Our study of the London Olympics 2012 construction... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
initiative with domestic, international, and U.N. fronts; and 3) launching a new venture requiring internal, capital-raising, licensing, and industrial partnering deals. The need to negotiate multiple, related deals is not new to negotiation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
settings. They cried out for a theoretical explanation. So Eric von Hippel, Christoph Hienerth, and I teamed up to see if we could construct a theory to explain the phenomena. Q: Can you describe in general... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Das Narayandas, and Dongkyu Chang Abstract— This study investigates the comprehensive and multidimensional effects of quota frequency on sales force performance. We develop a theory of salespeople’s behavior with regard to the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
the premise that organizational errors merit study in their own right as an organizational-level phenomenon of growing theoretical and managerial significance. We delineate organizational errors as a construct that is distinct from but... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
subsequently. Our results are consistent with theory on the active role firms can play in managing their reputational capital through anticipatory actions to avoid negative media coverage. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14
Publications April 2015 Routledge Strong Brands, Strong Relationships By: Fournier, Susan, Michael Breazeale, and Jill Avery Abstract—From the editorial team of the groundbreaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10
purchases the same customers make when shopping without a coupon. The standard permanent income or lifecycle theory of consumption predicts that grocery spending will be unaffected by the use of a $10-off coupon, while a simple mental... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
innovation. PDF not available. Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence Authors:Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Abstract This paper theoretically and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
accommodate emergent sources of value. For these firms, competition resembled neither economic rivalry nor collective action but a logic of interaction akin to parallel play. The resultant middle-range theory has implications for research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/Developmental/Regional/?view=usa&ci=9780198075028 Top Executives Need Feedback: Here's How They Can Get It Authors:Robert Steven Kaplan Publication:The McKinsey Quarterly, no. 4 (2011) Abstract As executives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
scrutinizing the behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors to identify new ways of doing things; (4) Experimenting: constructing interactive experiences and provoking unorthodox responses to see what insights emerge; and (5)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
deliver manpower and supplies overseas, Kaiser, who had never built a ship before, rose to the challenge and successfully directed the construction of thousands of Liberty ships. These merchant vessels gave the U.S. Navy the overwhelming... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace