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- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
structures within a single supplier hastens improvement. Our focus on the internal structural dynamics of suppliers extends the existing decoupling literature and provides the first empirical investigation of internal buffering of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
health-economics literature has done a better job documenting consumer-choice mistakes in insurance and treatment choices than explaining why those mistakes occur, it is clear that we should not ignore these mistakes in our analyses. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
"sticky" and, consequently, the implications of strategic interaction for strategic choice. And yet, while the organization and strategy literatures broadly recognize the importance of repositioning costs, game-theoretic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
between nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and government agencies have been variously described in the nonprofit literature as cooperative, complementary, adversarial, confrontational, or even co-optive. But how do NGO-government... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
in other companies around the same time, which ultimately made it easier to keep the identity of the company in Men and Women confidential. I've never revealed it. Ely: Earlier you said that the book partly came out of a reaction to what you were seeing at the time in... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Halaburda Abstract The economic literature on choice focuses on individuals' decisions when faced with a given menu. However, the menu itself is often the result of preselection by a menu setter. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14
Rica benefited from biodiversity and a pleasant climate, the country’s preeminence in ecotourism requires more than a natural resource endowment explanation. While previous literature has emphasized the efforts of the government and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
non but instead rely on a synthesis of many findings into a consistent, but not definitive, diagnosis. Lagace: How do crowdsourcing contests fit in or not with the usual pace of innovation in medicine or oncology in particular? LISH team: The pace is quite fast... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
from the most extreme want to the most extreme should movie increasing the odds of a preference reversal by 10%. Similarly, we also predict and find that should DVDs are held significantly longer than want DVDs. Our study ties together the previously disjoint View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
disasters had a positive impact. Firms' philanthropic history and communities' inter-corporate network cohesion moderated some of these effects. This study extends institutional and community literatures by illuminating the geographic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
and Middle Eastern states, including Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The issue is that this literature has focused heavily on broad macro-economic trends and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
the operations literature that systematically analyze the impact of e-intermediaries are lacking. Our work fills this gap and answers practical questions regarding the responsible operations of e-intermediaries. Methodology: We develop an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
unravelling. In particular, it shows that under the ex-post stable mechanism (the mechanism that the literature focuses on), unravelling is more likely to occur when participants have more similar preferences. It also shows that any... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
findings contribute to the corporate strategy literature by shedding light on the roots of the diversification discount and by showing how analysts' research enables investors to overcome asymmetric information. Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
inherited from Britain had better investment protection than countries which inherited civil law systems from Spain. This literature points to a major effect on financial development, which in turn impacted the nature and speed of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
for firms to capture value in a modular system. This paper brings together the theory of modularity from the engineering and management literatures with the modern economic theory of property rights and relational contracts to address the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
we find that countries with well-developed financial markets gain significantly from FDI via TFP improvements. These results are consistent with the recent findings in the growth literature that shows the important role of TFP over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
relative viability, even if one focuses just on prices, is the pass-through of a higher price realization to the global producer after typically higher transportation and distribution costs, tariffs, or even risks, are netted out. Empirical evidence from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
paper, I inductively find that rather than based on rapid, nonconscious impulse, as much of prior literature would suggest, what investors call their "gut feel" is an elaborate "intuiting process." This process serves... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016
required by participants and those provided by suppliers (“the skills gap”) and the gap that separates skill acquisition from skill application (“the skills transfer gap”). We canvass the literature on skill measurement, acquisition, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne