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Hybrid Strategy and Firm Performance : The Moderating Role of Individual and Technological Ambidexterity

Mahr, Ferdinand - 2010

It is discussed whether hybrid strategies are beneficial or detrimental to a firm’s performance, because hybrid strategies lead to organizational tensions that arise from the simultaneous pursuit of distinct strategic activities. However, existing studies on the relationship between hybrid...

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An Effective Entrepreneurship Reduces Strikes; A Panel Data Analysis for Western Countries (1993 – 2006)

Georgiou, Miltiades N. - 2009

In the present paper it will be attempted to estimate numerically the ability of the manager (who can be either the entrepreneur, or the CEO, as will be clarified by the proposed definition of the entrepreneurial remuneration) and relate it to the number of strikes, pointing out econometrically...

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Towards an Organizational Economics of Heterogeneous Capabilities

Foss, Nicolai J. - 2013

The notion of “capability” has long been influential in management research as an approach to address firm-level heterogeneity and heterogeneity in competitive outcomes. I discuss how recent advances in economics may allow for a more rigorous understanding and measurement of capability that...

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A Playing Field for Organizational Changes : The Brain's Threat & Reward System

Pettersson, Ivar - 2018

When planning for a major organizational change, a company's top management should take into account how the human brain's threat & reward system operates, in order to plan and foresee how the change message should be effectively communicated to the company's ranks, so a leveled playing field...

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Risk : Implications from Employee Satisfaction

Lu, Weijie - 2016

performance Reduces firm risk and leads to stronger corporate performances through the channel of employee Satisfaction …

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Outside CEOs and Innovation

Cummings, Trey - 2017

Innovation is the principle driver of firm and economic growth. Thus one disturbing trend that may explain stagnant growth is a 65% decline in firms' RQ. We propose that the rise of outside CEOs is partially responsible for the decline. While this proposition was motivated by interviews with...

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Factors Affecting Earnings Management in the Indonesian Stock Exchange

Alexander, Nico - 2017

Objective - The purpose of this research is to analyze the effect of growth, leverage, fixed asset turnover, profitability, firm size, firm age, industry, audit quality, and auditor independence toward earnings management.Methodology/Technique - The population of this research consist of various...

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Risk : Implications from Employee Satisfaction

Lu, Weijie - 2015

performances and financial risk. Consistent with human relations theories of the firm, results show that firms' corporate social … to lower systematic risk and better operating performances. In my empirical tests, I address potential endogeneity … firm risk and leads to stronger corporate performances through the channel of employee satisfaction …

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Information Acquisition for Internal Capital Allocation and Executive Compensation

Amemiya, Yuki - 2019

We examine the benefits and costs of internal capital allocation with costly information acquisition by an executive officer in the headquarter of the multi-divisional firm. Then we characterize the optimal compensation scheme for the officer that maximizes the expected firm value. The...

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Corporate Governance of SOEs and Compliance With the SOE Governance Act in Namibia : A Survey

Shafuda, Christopher; Lenz, Rainer; Mirecki, Matthew - 2021

This paper assessed the practices and standards of Corporate Governance for SOEs in Namibia. The results revealed that the state of the SOEs Corporate Governance system in Namibia is weak. SOEs are nearly uncontrolled and unmonitored regarding their Corporate Governance. Although the Government...

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