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- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little attention at the individual level. Drawing on attribution theory in psychology, we investigate how individuals learn...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
responses interact with those of other actors, and how these individual and collective responses unfold over time to generate outcomes. Second, we call for stronger unification of theory within the entrepreneurial resource mobilization...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
affiliation. These results hold through a large number of specifications and cannot be attributed to mobilization against the laws, measured by campaign contributions and self-reported political engagement. ID requirements have no effect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
Finding it difficult to avoid the second debate, the paper examines the extent to which prevailing accounts of corporate purpose (e.g., shareholder primacy, stakeholder theory, corporate citizenship) support attributing responsibilities...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
value-relevant before disclosure, for negative earnings adjustments it is value-relevant only after disclosure. This finding is consistent with managers delaying the communication of bad news until IFRS compliance. A finer model shows that adjustments View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard productivity analysis, specifically,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
induced by the promise of temporary sharing, sharers of uninhibited selfies come across as having worse judgment relative to those who share relatively discreet selfies (studies 1, 2, & 4–7)—an attributional pattern that is...
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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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
he says, will become longer, fatter, and more profitable. Elberse set out to investigate whether Anderson's long-tail theory is actually playing out in today's markets. She focused on the music and home-video industries—two markets that...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and market reallocation, whereby competition from multinationals leads to...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We show that characteristics of stock issuers can be used to forecast important common factors in stocks' returns such as those associated with book-to-market, size, and industry. Specifically, we use differences...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
by differences in the information-processing activities associated with each function and apply this insight to refine and extend existing theories of centralization. We also discuss the implications of our results for organizational...
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Anna Secino
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
psychological scientists of the modern era. These readable essays highlight the most important contributions to theory and research in psychological science, show how the greatest psychological scientists formulate and think about their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
Returns Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the demand by issuing equity. We use time-series variation in differences between the...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
by the enormous improvements going on in other countries. It used to be that the wages of US workers rose in line with domestic productivity, but the two became decoupled. Some attribute that to declining unionization. That may be part of...
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- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
cream), controlling for customer fixed effects. These findings are all consistent with theories suggesting that people's should selves exert more influence over their choices the further in the future outcomes will be experienced....
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
Synthesis Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper constructs a unified theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks of tasks. Transactions,...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
can be attributed to donor firms' concerns about the potentially negative consequences of scrutiny over outsourcing for themselves and for their affiliated candidates. Fair Pricing Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Publication:Journal of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
knowledgeable individuals can be attributed to ignorance. The less knowledgeable also report that their debt loads are excessive or that they are unable to judge their debt position. Download the working paper from SSRN ($5):...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
year dummies. These effects separate across groups in a pattern that appears broadly plausible (e.g., the rich suffer environmental degradation more than the poor). Based on actual changes from 1975 to 1997, small contributions to happiness can be View Details
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Martha Lagace