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Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

Firms' decisions about which goods to produce are often made at a more disaggregate level than the data observed by empirical researchers. When products differ according to production technique or the way in which they enter demand, this data aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard...

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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - 2015

States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …

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Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Productivity : A Firm Level Exploration Based on French Manufacturing Cis3 Data

Kremp, Élizabeth; Mairesse, Jacques - 2021

knowledge acquisition (A), implementing written knowledge management rules (W). The French 1998-2000 Community Innovation Survey …

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Intellectual Property Rights, the Pool of Knowledge, and Innovation

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2014

The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are … lead to a lower pace of innovation, and more generally, that long run effects may be the opposite of the short run effects …

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What is the Business of Business?

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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Come Together : Firm Boundaries and Delegation

Alfaro, Laura - 2018

We develop an incomplete-contracts model to jointly study firm boundaries and the al-location of decision rights within them. Integration has an option value: it gives firm owners authority to delegate or centralize decision rights, depending on who can best solve problems that may arise in the...

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Social Networks, Learning, and Flexibility : Sourcing Scientific Knowledge in New Biotechnology Firms

Liebeskind, Julia Porter; Oliver, Amalya Lumerman; … - 2021

We examine how two highly successful new biotechnology firms (NBFs) source their most critical input -- scientific knowledge. We find that scientists at the two NBFs enter into large numbers of collaborative research efforts with scientists at other organizations, especially universities. Formal...

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Bargaining and the Division of Value in Corporate Reorganization

Bebchuk, Lucian A.; Chang, Howard F. - 2021

This paper develops a sequential bargaining model of the negotiations in corporate reorganizations under Chapter 11. We identify the expected outcome of the bargaining process and examine the effects of the legal rules that shape the bargaining. We determine how much value equity holders and...

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Theories of Heterogeneous Firms and Trade

Redding, Stephen - 2010

This paper reviews the recent theoretical literature on heterogeneous firms and trade, which emphasizes firm selection into international markets and reallocations of resources across firms. We discuss the empirical challenges that motivated this research and its relationship to traditional...

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The Organization of Firms Across Countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2012

We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters...

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