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- 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... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
dimension of prior experience is whether the outcome was successful or unsuccessful. While empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little attention at the individual level.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
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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
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
Much of the success of microfinance has been attributed to attempts to overcome the challenges of information asymmetries in uncollateralized lending. However, very little is known about the optimal contract structure of these loans, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
Moreover, it is unclear whether standard theories about organizational strategy, such as planning, hold true in such environments. We explore these issues using a sample of 730 new ventures in Colombia from 1997 to 2001. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
settings. They cried out for a theoretical explanation. So Eric von Hippel, Christoph Hienerth, and I teamed up to see if we could construct a theory to explain the phenomena. Q: Can you describe in general the pathways user innovations... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
the democratization of data. The vast turnover at consultancies means armies of experienced strategists are available for hire by former clients, whose increasing sophistication allows them to allocate work instead of relying on one-stop shops as they did in the past.... View Details
Keywords: 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
Abstract—Theories of status rarely address unearned status gain-an unexpected and unsolicited increase in relative standing, prestige, or worth, attained not through individual effort or achievement, but from a shift in organizationally valued characteristics. We build... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
and Toby Stuart Abstract The corporate staff is central in theories of the multi-business firm, but empirical evidence on its function is limited. In this paper, we examine the high-level role of two units of a corporate staff through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 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.... View Details
Keywords: 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,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
by Karen Golden-Biddle and Jane E. Dutton. Series in Organization and Management. New York: Psychology Press, 2012 Abstract How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman Abstract The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne