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There is a prevailing view in both the academic literature and the popular press that firms need to behave more entrepreneurially. This view is reinforced by a stylized fact in the innovation literature that R&D productivity decreases with size. A second stylized fact in the innovation...
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The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) is one of the more commonly used measures in the Strategy and Economics literatures. While its principal uses are measuring market concentration or firm diversification, it has been extended beyond that. One concern with the measure is that an infinite set of...
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Existing studies of exit delay typically focus on rational, behavioral, or organizational explanations in isolation. We integrate these different theoretical explanations, developing testable hypotheses for each, and examine them using the population of US banks between 1984 and 1997. Banks'...
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Despite evidence that delayed exit is a pervasive and consequential problem, relatively little is known about its causes. Moreover, the study of exit delay is confounded by the fact that behavioral theories arising in the literature on escalation of commitment and economic theories that...
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