This paper uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019 and from the COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020 in eight European countries to investigate the link between firm characteristics before the pandemic and firm survival until 2020. For the first time...

Purpose: This paper tests the corporate life cycle theory in the context of an emerging market.Design/methodology/approach: We use 3179 non-financial Indian firms’ data for the period 2011-20 to validate the claim. To assess the robustness of empirical relationships, we employ multinomial...

This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...

This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of offshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses...

There have been a number of recent studies that examine the effects of learning-by-doing and the related intertemporal decisions of firms. Research concerning the DRAM market finds a 20% learning rate for each generation of semiconductors. Traditional wisdom says the benefit from learning a...

Most scholars assume firms are politically unified - at least at the industry level. Yet recent contributions data reveal considerable variation in political preferences exhibited among firms in the same industry. This paper investigates what drives this intra-industry variation in partisan...

The paper analyzes factors that influence the adoption of e-learning and gives an example of how to forecast technology adoption based on a post-hoc predictive segmentation using a classification and regression tree (CART). We find strong evidence for the existence of technological...

Based on an unbalanced panel of all Bavarian cooperative banks for the years of 1989-95 which includes information on 243 mergers, we analyze motives for and cost effects of small-scale mergers in German banking. Estimating a frontier cost function with a timevariable stochastic efficiency term...

The relationship between R&D expenditures and firm growth is examined for a cross-country firm-level dataset for the EU countries in the period from 1989 to 2019. A panel dynamic average treatment effect is estimated using a panel time-varying dynamic difference-in-differences model. The...