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Modern Management : Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …

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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms

Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2015

secure persistently superior performance via investments in better management and organization. We empirically analyze the … management is driven by two key organizational trade-offs: employee initiative vs. coordination as well as exploration of novel …

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Innovation, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade

Atkeson, Andrew - 2015

We present a general equilibrium model of the decisions of firms to innovate and to engage in international trade. We use the model to analyze the impact of a reduction in international trade costs on firms' process and product innovative activity. We first show analytically that if all firms...

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The Effect of Venture Capital on Innovation Strategies

Penas, María Fabiana - 2014

We examine a unique dataset of Dutch companies, some of which have received venture financing. The data include detailed information on innovation activities and other company characteristics. We analyse the role of venture finance in influencing innovation strategies. We find that venture...

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The Impact of Emerging Market Competition on Innovation and Business Strategy

Kueng, Lorenz - 2016

How do firms in high-income countries adjust to emerging market competition? We estimate how a representative panel of Canadian firms adjusts innovation activities, business strategies, and exit in response to large increases in Chinese imports between 1999 and 2005. On average, process...

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CEO Overconfidence and Innovation

Galasso, Alberto - 2014

Are CEOs' attitudes and beliefs linked to their fims' innovative performance? This paper uses Malmendier and Tate's measure of overconfidence, based on CEO stock-option exercise, to study the relationship between a CEO's "revealed beliefs" about future performance and standard measures of...

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Firm Scope and Spillovers from New Product Innovation : Evidence from Medical Devices

Grennan, Matthew - 2018

When firms span related product categories, spillovers across categories become central to firm strategy and industrial policy, due to their potential to foreclose competition and affect innovation incentives. We exploit major new product innovations in one medical device category, and detailed...

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Platform Owner Entry and Innovation in Complementary Markets : Evidence from Intel

Gawer, Annabelle; Henderson, Rebecca M. - 2021

This paper draws on a detailed history of Intel's strategy with respect to the complementary markets for microprocessors to explore the usefulness of the current theoretical literature for explaining behavior. We find that as the literature predicts, Intel invests heavily in these markets, both...

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Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2021

The trickle of business method patents issued by the United States Patent Office became a flood after the State Street Bank decision in 1998. Many scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact...

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Business and Financial Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013

Two court decisions in the 1990s are widely viewed as having opened the door to a flood of business method and financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued...

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