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Modern Management : Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …

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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms

Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2015

secure persistently superior performance via investments in better management and organization. We empirically analyze the … management is driven by two key organizational trade-offs: employee initiative vs. coordination as well as exploration of novel …

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Innovation, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade

Atkeson, Andrew - 2015

We present a general equilibrium model of the decisions of firms to innovate and to engage in international trade. We use the model to analyze the impact of a reduction in international trade costs on firms' process and product innovative activity. We first show analytically that if all firms...

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Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?

Kaplan, Steven N. - 2014

We study the characteristics and abilities of CEO candidates for companies involved in buyout (LBO) and venture capital (VC) transactions and relate them to hiring decisions, investment decisions, and company performance. Candidates are assessed on more than thirty individual abilities. The...

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The Effect of Venture Capital on Innovation Strategies

Penas, María Fabiana - 2014

We examine a unique dataset of Dutch companies, some of which have received venture financing. The data include detailed information on innovation activities and other company characteristics. We analyse the role of venture finance in influencing innovation strategies. We find that venture...

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Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Policies

Ben-David, Itzhak - 2008

Using a unique 10-year panel that includes more than 13,300 expected stock market return probability distributions, we find that executives are severely miscalibrated, producing distributions that are too narrow: realized market returns are within the executives' 80% confidence intervals only...

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Unethical Culture, Suspect CEOS and Corporate Misbehavior

Biggerstaff, Lee - 2013

We show that firms with CEOs who personally benefitted from options backdating were more likely to engage in other forms of corporate misbehavior, suggestive of an unethical corporate culture. These firms were more likely to overstate firm profitability and to engage in less profitable...

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Competitive advantage through innovation : the case of Nespresso

Brem, Alexander; Maier, Maximilian Anton; Wimschneider, … - In: European journal of innovation management : EJIM 19 (2016) 1, pp. 133-148

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Strategic assets in technology-based incubators in Brazil

Fernandes, Carolina Cristina; Oliveira Junior, Moacir … - In: European journal of innovation management : EJIM 20 (2017) 1, pp. 153-170

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Pathways for the co-evolution of new product development and strategy formation processes : empirical evidence from major Austrian innovations

Leitner, Karl-Heinz - In: European journal of innovation management : EJIM 18 (2015) 2, pp. 172-194

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