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- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
and technology transfers to the developing world. We have a chance to design these institutions in such a way as to avoid some of the pitfalls that befell our institutions of development and humanitarian... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
instructions to work with the community. This is an interesting dimension of globalization that calls for further study: multinationals transfer not only their technology, but also their values and social policies. María Marta Llosa,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
is that fiscal risk and social risk interact in complex ways. When considering many potential projects, government cost-benefit analysis thus acquires the flavor of a portfolio choice problem. We use the model to explore how the relative attractiveness of two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
Indian scientists to U.S. technology formation increased dramatically in the 1990s, before noticeably leveling off after 2000 and declining in the case of India. Growth in ethnic innovation is concentrated in high-tech sectors; the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
analogical training, wherein negotiators draw analogies between different cases involving the same strategy, was shown to be effective for learning and transferring specific value-creating strategies. The current results suggest that such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
organizational units and corporations are likely to match the boundaries of underlying technological modules. (This correspondence is called "mirroring.") In this article, I explain the concept of modularity and describe how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Authors:Ryan W. Buell, Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Publication:Production and Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the impact of self-service technology (SST) usage on customer satisfaction and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
growth, and the estate tax. The treatment has large effects on views about inequality but only slightly moves tax and transfer policy preferences. An exception is the estate tax-informing respondents of the small share of decedents who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
markets and ecosystems through their ability to transfer a package of financial, organizational, and cultural assets, skills, and ideologies across national borders. It argues such firms have been shapers of, as well as responders to,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be an effective and efficient way... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
ambitious goal of creating a showcase high-tech city from scratch. The collaboration brought together software entrepreneurs, real estate developers, city government officials, architects, builders, and technology corporations. Taking a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
can be used to evaluate the implications of marketing actions, consumer heterogeneity, competition, successive technology generations, and globalization. The exposition is filled with vivid examples from a wide array of domains (video... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
populations. While we have considerable evidence that donors are more generous if they know their assistance benefits a preferred group, we know little about the demand for such information. To start closing this gap, we study transfers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
instead reflect more "top-down" interventions. We conclude with a discussion of some of the historical evidence on top-down interventions. Illicit Invention: Tracing Technological Development in the Shadow of the Law... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
related to technological orientation. Second, we find that the adoption of customer orientation is positively related to the profitability of both Japanese and American entrepreneurial firms, although the effect is stronger in the U.S. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
although research on this topic has often focused on high technology manufacturing companies, I have written extensively on the service sector, on business groups and alliances rather than hierarchical corporations, and on the different... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
we see more entrepreneurship, more innovation, outside of technological innovation in the system? What's stamping down on that? A: This iron triangle, it kills you. So first of all, if we want to start a health delivery innovation, we... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
regularly ascribed to culture, Latin sensuousness, and machismo attitudes, this article shows that the growth of the industry was historically contingent. It was shaped by corporations, especially Avon and Colgate, that transferred... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
PublicationsHas the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Publication:The WIPO Journal: Analysis and Debate... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
still contains many subsistence farmers or folks who are living off of meager agricultural incomes and transfers from the state or their relatives in the big cities. So to compete with all of those site-specific issues would be a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace