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- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Based on theory and field interviews, we develop hypotheses regarding how scientists' productivity, co-authorship networks, and institutional affiliations have different effects on whether male and female... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
at both the senior management and director levels affect corporate philanthropic contributions. We also find that organizational structure constrains the philanthropic influence of board members, but not senior managers, a result that is contrary to what existing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
resisters in their networks did not necessarily know one another and so were unlikely to form a coalition. Change agents with cohesive networks, in which all individuals were connected, were better at instituting minor changes. Their... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
heterogeneity, we identify key country- and organization-level determinants of corporate environmental disclosure. We focus on institutional factors related to firms' global embeddedness to describe how external environmental pressures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
economic development of host countries and what is the role of local financial markets in mediating the potential benefits? We first define FDI and discuss general theories on types and drivers of FDI. This review takes a host-country... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
ambiguity of profits and power, as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a powerful mosaic of imperial theories and practices contributing to the creation of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
and from other institutions with the goal of creating strategies to reignite America's economic future in the global economy. Porter is the Lawrence University Professor, and Rivkin the Rauner professor of business administration and head... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
scholars to reintroduce entrepreneurship into the research agenda of business historians. We examine the value and limitations of adapting recent social scientific theories and methods on entrepreneurship to research on international... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
Collaborative Management Research, edited by A. B. Shani, N. Adler, N. Mohrman, W. A. Pasmore and B. Stymne. Sage Publications, Inc. 2007 Abstract The gap between theory and practice has been of concern to both practitioners and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
how, all the way through the 1970s, the U.S. not only failed to resist pressure to defend American investments, but also remained unsuccessful at altering internal institutions of other countries in order to make property rights secure in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
bureaucracy can be wildly at odds with what entrepreneurs and their backers really need. Economists have also focused on a second problem, delineated in the theory of regulatory capture. These writings suggest that private- and... View Details
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
important, companies must contend with a lack of formal institutions regarding the "rules of the game." This means that company success may rely on local leaders and community agents who have the social capital to bring people... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
how recent increases in competition among raters led to "friendlier," poorer-quality ratings. As Becker explains, "The related theory goes back to the early 1980s (especially to an influential paper by economists Benjamin... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
on the political and institutional contexts within which opportunities for policy learning emerge. In particular, opportunities for policy learning are examined with respect to (a) agenda or priority-setting on environmental issues, (b)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
forthcoming Journal of International Business Studies Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History By: da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Mark Casson, and G. Jones Abstract—This article... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
prior theory of subsidiary absorptive capacity and argue that larger subsidiaries, characterized by greater knowledge stock and a greater fraction of local employees, could plausibly absorb more knowledge from the local host country... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008
Bodie Abstract This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
favorite content wherever they are whenever they demand it, consumption patterns will become more, not less uniform, this theory predicts. To shed light on this debate, we study the distribution of revenues across products in the context... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
the general Buenos Aires population, in spite of the large differences. On the Pricing of Intermediated Risks: Theory and Application to Catastrophe Reinsurance Authors:K. A. Froot and P. O'Connell Periodical:Journal of Banking and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace