Financial ties between drug companies and medical researchers are thought to bias results published in medical journals. To enable readers to account for such bias, most medical journals require authors to disclose potential conflicts of interest. For such policies to be effective, conflict...

ConstelaDev is an automated project-oriented platform that promotes a psychological safety context, collaborative learning, and development environment. It allows sharing of ideas and knowledge in practical and active fashioning driven by an automatic system for monitoring and evaluation in a...

Conditional cooperation is usually investigated in experiments where the choices of others are known. In many circumstances, however, there is uncertainty about others’ cooperativeness. Using a novel experimental protocol, we manipulate the perceived likelihood of cooperation in a Prisoner's...

University affiliations of founders and investors in venture capital deals might affect the initial investment decision and the subsequent funding relationship through two channels. First, attending a top university might act as a founder-quality signal to investors, and second, belonging to the...

This study builds a multi-product firm model with endogenous diversified innovation behaviors to highlight a micro-mechanism through which cooperative innovation affects firm-level technology spillovers. The model indicates that cooperative innovation promotes firm-level technology spillovers...

We examine the effects of (passive) cross-holdings in the downstream market on the sustainability of upstream collusion. We consider two competing vertical chains with downstream Cournot and homogeneous goods. Each downstream firm holds a (symmetric) non-controlling share of its rival. We find...

The study investigated determinants of academic research quality employing a mix of quantitative and qualitative approach. Data were collected from three Ethiopian universities using a questionnaire and interview guide questions. The results have shown that research results’ quality, research...

Problem-solving often requires crossing boundaries, such as those between disciplines. However, the measurement and evaluation of “interdisciplinarity” can be confusing because the concept itself is composite