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- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
literature on information and control in interfirm agreements using a sample of over 100 Internet portal alliance contracts. The literature on information and control in alliances suggests that the use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
exonerating." The researchers also found that the more difficult the decision, the more likely people were to prefer the bad news option that took away their personal choice. While previous research has shown that people don’t like making difficult decisions, “to our... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
regular business hours. In fact, the average communication share outside of regular hours for men was nearly 14 percent, versus nearly 9 percent for women. “Prior literature shows that women have the least flexible schedules because they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
QV literature assumes that everyone votes, turnout is endogenous. Drawing on other work, we consider the representativeness of endogenously determined turnout under QV. Second, who will vote quadratically? Conditional on turning out, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
affecting teams' use of members' knowledge: the more important the project, the less effective the team. This paper contributes to the emerging literature linking team-level expertise utilization (instead of just recognition) with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
Yet this literature has had much more to say about international trade and institutional structures than about entrepreneurship and MNEs. Indeed, the story of the creation of the nineteenth-century global economy has been written about... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26
may be less effective at motivating employees than the literature suggests. Our quasi-experimental setting shows that two types of unintended consequences limit gains from the reward program. First, employees strategically game the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
did you write this book? Jeffrey Fear: This book began as a very different project. One problem in German history is that a good deal of literature understandably focuses on discrete time periods: Imperial Germany 1871-1914; World War I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
But the literature on behavioral economics suggests an alternative interpretation, which is that people might simply be sticking with the default [option] and not taking the time to enroll. In this case, the default matters a lot. A paper... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC) negatively predict enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
Kathryn S. Roloff Abstract The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions of how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 7
http://www.psypress.com/the-psychology-of-negotiations-in-the-21st-century-workplace-9780415871150 Naiveté and Cynicism in Negotiations and Other Competitive Contexts Authors:Chia-Jung Tsay, Lisa L. Shu, and Max Bazerman Publication:In Academy of Management Annals, in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5
abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f0a1b93d#/f0a1b93d/12 Working PapersLocation Choices under Strategic Interactions Author:Juan Alcacer Abstract The literature on location... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23
Casals, 129-150. Papers d'Economia Industrial. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 2010 Abstract The chapter provides an overview of the recent literature discussing the pros and cons of cluster policy. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
and Multinational Corporations By: Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Florian Wettstein Abstract—A central question that arises from the perspective of global ethics is what standards ought to apply to the activities of multinational corporations (MNCs). This chapter surveys the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
stages and later in its subsequent growth into a diversified business group. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50341 November 2015 Annual Review of Financial Economics Financing Innovation By: Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
influence in their organizations. Specifically, we examine how influence-seeking risk managers (1) establish and maintain interpersonal connections with decision makers and how they (2) adopt, deploy, and reconfigure tools-practices that we define collectively as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
business. "There has been a lot of fascinating and important literature on this topic," says Beshears, Harvard Business School assistant professor, "but for the most part, it doesn't get beyond anecdotal evidence."... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
interact—everything from how people view the role of the individual versus the group to their attitudes, say, about the importance of time or relationships. In response to these challenges, a great body of literature has emerged to help... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
complex way than the literature has previously suggested: a higher share of entrepreneurial peers leads to lower rather than higher subsequent rates of entrepreneurship. However, the decrease in entrepreneurship is entirely driven by a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne