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Nilsson, Andreas - 2017

This paper develops a simple framework for understanding the emergence of new organizational forms, such as socially responsible firms and social entrepreneurs, that embody the private sector's efforts to resolve problems that typically have been within the purview of government and traditional...

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The Impact of Emerging Market Competition on Innovation and Business Strategy

Kueng, Lorenz - 2016

How do firms in high-income countries adjust to emerging market competition? We estimate how a representative panel of Canadian firms adjusts innovation activities, business strategies, and exit in response to large increases in Chinese imports between 1999 and 2005. On average, process...

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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms

Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2015

Business strategy can be defined as a firm's plan to generate economic profits based on lower cost, better quality, or new products. The analysis of business strategy is thus at the intersection of market competition and a firm's efforts to secure persistently superior performance via...

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Integrated Political Strategy

de Figueiredo, John M. - 2009

This paper reviews the literature on corporate political strategy and identifies a number of open research questions and streams for potential investigation. The paper develops a framework to explain why, when, and how a firm will pursue multi-forum political action as part of its non-market and...

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Common Ownership in America : 1980-2017

Backus, Matthew - 2019

When competing firms possess overlapping sets of investors, maximizing shareholder value may provide incentives that distort competitive behavior, affecting pricing, entry, contracting, and virtually all strategic interactions among firms. We propose a structurally consistent and scaleable...

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Spatial Competition, Strategic Entry Responses, and the North Dakota Railroad War of 1905

Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The North Dakota Railroad War of 1905, which pitted a potential entrant (the Soo Line) against an established monopolist incumbent (the Great Northern Railway), offers a lucid empirical example of strategic behavior, and in particular the potential for entry deterrence through product...

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The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

Eccles, Robert G. - 2012

We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched … sample of 180 US companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993 - termed as … High Sustainability companies - exhibit by 2009 distinct organizational processes compared to a matched sample of companies …

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Sustainability and its Measurement

Heal, Geoffrey - 2011

I present a non-technical high-level review the concept of sustainability and the various approaches to quantifying it …

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Choosing Technology : An Entrepreneurial Strategy Approach

Gans, Joshua - 2020

A central premise of research in the strategic management of innovation is that start-ups are able to leverage emerging technological trajectories as a source of competitive advantage. But, if the potential for a technology is given by the fundamental character of a given technological...

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From Imitation to Innovation : Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?

König, Michael D. - 2020

We construct a model of firm dynamics with heterogeneous productivity and distortions. The productivity distribution evolves endogenously as the result of the decisions of firms seeking to upgrade their productivity over time. Firms can adopt two strategies toward that end: imitation and...

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