This paper examines the effect of new CEOs on subsequent firm performance from the perspective of innovation. We find that new CEOs are associated with significantly greater quantities and qualities of future innovations, measured with the number of patents, citations, patents per research and...

This paper examines the effect of new CEOs on subsequent firm performance from the perspective of innovation. We find that new CEOs are associated with significantly greater quantities and qualities of future innovations, measured with the number of patents, citations, patents per research and...

We examine how U.S. publicly listed firms' brand innovation is sacrificed when managers reduce marketing budgets in order to make short-term earnings targets. Using the newly available U.S. trademark dataset to measure the lifespan of new brands, we find that new brands' survival rate...

We examine the consequences of real earnings management from an innovation perspective and investigate the patent output of firms likely to be managing earnings through altering their R&D expenditures. We find that R&D cuts related to earnings management lead to fewer patents, less influential...

We examine how financial market development affects technological innovation. Using a large data set that includes 32 developed and emerging countries and a fixed effects identification strategy, we identify economic mechanisms through which the development of equity markets and credit markets...

We propose that innovative originality (InnOrig) is a valuable organizational resource, and that owing to limited investor attention and skepticism of complexity, firms with greater InnOrig are undervalued. We find that firms' InnOrig strongly predicts higher, more persistent, and less volatile...

Intangible resources play an increasingly influential role in today's business operations, but how they affect inventory management remains underexplored in the literature. This paper associates a firm's inventory-turnover performance with its capabilities of utilizing the intangible resources...

These are the slides for the paper “Innovative Originality, Profitability, And Stock Returns.” The abstract of this paper is the following: We propose that innovative originality is a valuable organizational resource and that owing to limited investor attention and skepticism of complexity,...