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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition : The Effect of Trade Liberalization

Guadalupe, Maria - 2008

This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i)...

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Leaning In or Not Leaning Out? Opt-Out Choice Framing Attenuates Gender Differences in the Decision to Compete

He, Joyce - 2019

In most organizations, promotions often require self-nomination and competition among applicants. However, research on gender differences in preferences for competition suggests that this process might result in fewer women choosing to participate. We study whether changing promotion schemes...

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Algorithms and the Changing Frontier

Agwara, Hezekiah - 2014

We first summarize the dominant interpretations of the "frontier" in the United States and predecessor colonies over the past 400 years: agricultural (1610s-1880s), industrial (1890s-1930s), scientific (1940s- 1980s), and algorithmic (1990s-present). We describe the difference between the...

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International Standards and International Trade : Empirical Evidence from ISO 9000 Diffusion

Clougherty, Joseph A. - 2012

methodological challenges by measuring standardization via national penetration of ISO 9000, allowing standardization to manifest via … multiple (quality-signaling, information/compliance-cost, and common-language) channels, and using instrumental variable …, multilateral resistance and panel data techniques to overcome endogeneity. We find evidence of common-language and quality …

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Designing Quality Certificates : Insights from eBay

Hui, Xiang; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Liu, Meng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Quality certification is a common tool to reduce asymmetric information and enhance trust in marketplaces. Should the …

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School Accountability, Long-Run Criminal Activity, and Self-Sufficiency

Eren, Ozkan; Figlio, David N.; Mocan, Naci; Ozturk, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper examines the impact of school accountability on adult crime and economic self-sufficiency. We employ a unique source of linked administrative data from a Southern state and exploit exogenous variation generated by the state's accountability regime. Our findings indicate that a...

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Patents as Quality Signals? The Implications for Financing Constraints on R&D

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2014

to financing constraints, but also do not seem to benefit from a patent quality signal …

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Reducing Moral Hazard in Employment Relationships : Experimental Evidence on Managerial Control and Performance Pay

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2013

Moral hazard is endemic to employment relationships and firms often use performance pay and managerial control to address this problem. While performance pay has received much empirical attention, managerial control has not. We analyze data from a managerial-control field experiment in which an...

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Making the Numbers? "Short Termism" & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

Repenning, Nelson P. - 2010

Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers" --delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer term investments--makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive advantage. "Short termism"...

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Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints

Hallak, Juan Carlos - 2009

We develop a model of international trade with export quality requirements and two dimensions of firm heterogeneity. In … addition to "productivity", firms are also heterogeneous in their "caliber" -- the ability to produce quality using fewer fixed … quality, our model provides a more nuanced characterization of firms' exporting behavior. In particular, it explains the …

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