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This paper reviews the literature on corporate political strategy and identifies a number of open research questions … multi-forum political action as part of its non-market and integrated strategy …
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Business strategy can be defined as a firm's plan to generate economic profits based on lower cost, better quality, or … new products. The analysis of business strategy is thus at the intersection of market competition and a firm's efforts to … interaction of firms' business strategies and their managerial practices using a unique, detailed dataset on business strategy …
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entrepreneurship which identifies survival with performance. Instead, many entrepreneurs aim for a cash-out (IPO or acquisition …
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This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill … further support for the role of skill in both entrepreneurship and venture capital …
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Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of … entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success … entrepreneurship is linked to a large number of small firms in supplying industries. Finally, there is a strong connection between area …
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Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
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Prior work suggests that more valuable patents are cited more and this view has become standard in the empirical innovation literature. Using an NPE-derived dataset with patent-specific revenues we find that the relationship of citations to value in fact forms an inverted-U, with fewer citations...
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For many firms, the acquisition process begins with the development of an acquisition plan that is communicated to investors. We construct a comprehensive sample of acquisition plans to provide novel perspectives on the acquisition process and find that acquisition plans are informative to...
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The American population is aging and changes in the population's age structure are leading to an aging of the nation's workforce. In addition, changes to age specific participation rates are exacerbating the aging of the national labor force. An important challenge for firms and organizations is...
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Prior work has established that the financing environment can impact firm strategy. We argue that this influence can … environment in a pattern consistent with our model. We discuss implications for the literature on new venture strategy …
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