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Theory of the firm 4,727 Theorie der Unternehmung 4,663 Theorie 2,355 Theory 2,321 Unternehmenstheorie 518 theory of the firm 274 Transaction costs 267 Transaktionskosten 267 USA 252 Corporate Governance 251 Entrepreneurship 249 Corporate governance 247 United States 241 Multinationales Unternehmen 236 Unternehmen 236 Entrepreneurship approach 234 Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie 234 Unternehmenserfolg 231 Agency theory 230 Firm performance 229 Strategisches Management 224 Transnational corporation 222 Strategic management 211 Unternehmensorganisation 190 Business organization 189 Industrieökonomik 189 Industrial organization 188 Management 184 Deutschland 167 Innovation 158 Germany 156 Organisationstheorie 150 Neue Institutionenökonomik 149 New institutional economics 149 Betriebswirtschaftslehre 140 Evolutionary economics 140 Evolutionsökonomik 139 Organization theory 128 Institutional economics 126 Institutionenökonomik 125
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Book / Working Paper 2,680 Article 2,671 Journal 23 Other 4
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Article in journal 1,827 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 1,827 Graue Literatur 837 Non-commercial literature 837 Working Paper 783 Arbeitspapier 740 Aufsatz im Buch 705 Book section 705 Hochschulschrift 324 Thesis 272 Collection of articles of several authors 240 Sammelwerk 240 Bibliografie enthalten 122 Bibliography included 122 Aufsatzsammlung 119 Konferenzschrift 92 Lehrbuch 89 Textbook 85 Conference proceedings 61 Dissertation u.a. Prüfungsschriften 46 Reprint 46 Systematic review 42 Übersichtsarbeit 42 Collection of articles written by one author 34 Sammlung 34 Festschrift 30 Rezension 25 Commentary 21 Kommentar 21 Case study 17 Fallstudie 17 Bibliografie 14 Handbook 11 Handbuch 11 Mehrbändiges Werk 10 Multi-volume publication 10 Conference paper 8 Konferenzbeitrag 8 Einführung 7 Glossar enthalten 6
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English 4,147 German 644 Undetermined 281 Italian 111 French 108 Spanish 44 Polish 19 Portuguese 14 Russian 10 Hungarian 9 Dutch 7 Danish 3 Czech 2 Croatian 2 Serbian 1 Chinese 1
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Foss, Nicolai J. 79 Marin, Dalia 40 Casson, Mark 38 Verdier, Thierry 35 Zingales, Luigi 34 Albach, Horst 33 Teece, David J. 27 Klein, Peter G. 25 Langlois, Richard N. 23 Mahoney, Joseph Timothy 23 Pfriem, Reinhard 23 Walker, Paul 23 Williamson, Oliver E. 23 Bartling, Björn 20 Fehr, Ernst 20 Hart, Oliver D. 20 Buckley, Peter J. 19 Coase, R. H. 19 Lindbeck, Assar 19 Schmidt, Klaus M. 19 Pitelēs, Chrēstos 18 Freiling, Jörg 17 Schmitz, Patrick W. 17 Snower, Dennis J. 17 Yang, Xiaokai 17 Dietrich, Michael 16 Foss, Kirsten 16 Bester, Helmut 15 Chassagnon, Virgile 15 Kay, Neil M. 15 Lazonick, William 15 Legros, Patrick 15 Loasby, Brian J. 15 Broll, Udo 14 Newman, Andrew F. 14 Nooteboom, Bart 14 Rajan, Raghuram Govind 14 Audretsch, David B. 13 Cyert, Richard Michael 13 Demsetz, Harold 13
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National Bureau of Economic Research 47 C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers 26 Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 22 Edward Elgar Publishing 21 Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) 6 Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research 6 EconWPA 5 Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 5 Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) 5 Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften 5 Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business and Economics 4 European Academy of Management and Business Economics 4 HAL 4 IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra 4 Instituttet for Industriøkonomi og Virksomhedsstrategi <Kopenhagen> 4 Scuola superiore Sant'Anna di studi universitari e di perfezionamento / Laboratory of Economics and Management 4 Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 4 CESifo 3 Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University 3 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 3 Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 3 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 3 University of Chicago / Center for Research in Security Prices 3 University of Dundee / Department of Economic Studies 3 University of Exeter / Department of Economics 3 Birkbeck College / Department of Economics 2 Carleton University, Department of Economics 2 Center for International Development <Cambridge, Mass.> 2 Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government 2 DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies 2 Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business 2 Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2 Department of Economics, Boston University 2 Department of Economics, University of Connecticut 2 Econometric Society 2 EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense (Paris X) 2 Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. 2 Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam 2 European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy 2 Global Conference on Entrepreneurship Research <1, 1991, London> 2
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Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 52 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 49 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 45 NBER working paper series 45 Industrial and corporate change 42 NBER Working Paper 31 Edward Elgar E-Book Archive 27 CEPR Discussion Papers 26 Journal of economic issues : jei 25 The American economic review 25 Revue d'économie industrielle 24 Europäische Hochschulschriften / 5 22 Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 21 The Rand journal of economics 21 International economic review 20 Southern economic journal 20 Economia e politica industriale 18 The international library of critical writings in economics 18 CESifo working papers 17 Journal of business venturing 17 Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies 17 Strategic management journal 17 The review of Austrian economics 17 Journal of business research : JBR 16 Journal of economics & management strategy : JEMS 16 Organization studies : an international multidisciplinary journal devoted to the study of organizations, organizing, and the organized in and between societies 16 Theorie der Unternehmung 16 Economics letters 15 European economic review : EER 15 Journal of business economics : JBE 15 Journal of economic theory 15 Neuroeconomics and the firm 15 The quarterly journal of economics 15 Discussion paper 14 Organization science : a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences ; bridging disciplines to advance knowledge of organizations 14 Rivista internazionale di scienze economiche e commerciali : RiSEC ; pubblicazione trimestrale 14 The modern firm, corporate governance and investment 14 Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic Association International 13 International journal of the economics of business 13 Managerial and decision economics : MDE ; the international journal of research and progress in management economics 13
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The Nefarious hierarchy : an alternative new theory of the firm
Arend, Richard J. - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 11 (2021) 1/21, pp. 1-18
We propose a new theory of the firm based on the premise that "the firm" characterizes a factor-integrative form of doing business that is often the most effective and efficient structure for doing well by doing bad. We define the terms and requirements involved for such a theory, and fulfill...
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Efficiencies in merger analysis
Kaplow, Louis - 2021
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Human capital and startup financing
Medeiros, Maurício da Silva <Jr.>; Doornik, Bernardus … - 2021
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What is a firm? : a reply to Jean-Philippe Robé
Deakin, Simon F.; Gindis, David; Hodgson, Geoffrey M. - 2021
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The interaction between business models and business reality
Kesting, Peter - In: Journal of business models : JOBM 9 (2021) 4, pp. 13-35
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to conceptualize the connection between business model and business reality. On this basis, the paper aims to put the business model on a solid conceptual basis and to build bridges to its neighbouring concepts. In this way, this paper should to contribute to...
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Optimal promotions of competing firms in a frictional labour market with organizational hierarchies
Dawid, Herbert; Mitkova, Mariya Valeriy; Zaharieva, Anna - 2021
We study optimal promotion decisions of hierarchical firms, with one junior and one senior managerial position, which interact in a search and matching labour market. Workers acquire experience over time while being employed in a junior position and the firm has to determine the experience level...
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Is it necessary a renewal of the theory of the firm based on pandemic realities?
Trifu, Alexandru - In: Business ethics and leadership : BEL 4 (2020) 2, pp. 96-101
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System or process? A meta-theoretical reflection on the nature of the firm
Valentinov, Vladislav - In: Systemic Practice and Action Research 35 (2022) 1, pp. 1-14
The paper revisits the fundamental question of the nature of the firm by contrasting two philosophic worldviews suggested by process philosophy and the Luhmannian systems theory. Whereas the former worldview takes reality to be internally related, the latter ones underscores the tendency of...
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Chester Barnard’s theory of the firm: An institutionalist view
Valentinov, Vladislav; Roth, Steffen - In: Journal of Economic Issues 56 (2022) 3, pp. 707-720
Chester Barnard’s work can be shown to contain subversive elements which accord with the spirit of institutionalist scholarship. Barnard saw corporations as systems of power whose sustainability must be backed by moral resources which are becoming increasingly scarce today. This vision...
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A behavioral theory of firm formalization
Agbleze, Selorm - 2022 - 1st edition
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The firm size-leverage relationship and its implications for entry and business concentration
Chatterjee, Satyajit; Eyigungor, Burcu - 2022 - Rvised March 2022
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A class of behavioral models for the profit-maximizing firm
Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2022
We study the behavior of a firm that consistently maximizes a misspecified profit function. We provide an equilibrium concept where the misspecification error remains undetected. We examine the uniqueness and stability of the equilibria. The model of the price-taking firm belongs to this class....
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Stakeholder theory, strategy, and organization : past, present, and future
Bridoux, Flore; Stoelhorst, JW - In: Strategic Organization 20 (2022) 4, pp. 797-809
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Identidad empresarial indígena : una interpretación integral desde el enfoque de las capacidades y dimensiones culturales
Macías-Barreto, Citlalli; Rojas Alarcón, Evelia - In: Economía, sociedad y territorio 22 (2022) 69, pp. 493-518
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The role of nonemployers in business dynamism and aggregate productivity
Bento, Pedro; Restuccia, Diego - 2022
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How do managerial perceptions of performance feedback affect innovation?
Saraf, Nilesh; Dasgupta, Srabana; Blettner, Daniela P. - In: Strategic Organization 20 (2022) 3, pp. 451-480
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Contract incompleteness and the boundaries of the firm in times of COVID-19
Bernasconi, Marta; Galetti, Sara; Gattai, Valeria; … - In: Journal of industry, competition and trade : from … 22 (2022) 3/4, pp. 371-409
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An Entrepreneurial Internalisation Theory of the Multinational Enterprise
Pitelis, Christos N.; Buckley, Peter J. - 2022
The internalisation theory of the Multinational Enterprise (MNE) explains MNE decisions to make/buy and/or ally, based on market and intra-organisational (firm/hierarchy) transactions costs. The theory focused on a limited set of categories, actors and sources of transaction costs and has...
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A Class of Behavioral Models for the Profit-Maximizing Firm
Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2022
We study the behavior of a firm that consistently maximizes a misspecified profit function. We provide an equilibrium concept where the misspecification error remains undetected. We examine the uniqueness and stability of the equilibria. The model of the price-taking firm belongs to this class....
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A synthesis of overlapping and divergent areas of the resource-based view of the firm and entrepreneurship theory
Šmaguc, Tamara - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
The objectives of the paper are aimed at examining, identifying and elaborating the key points of overlapping and divergence of the ideas of the resource-based view of the firm and entrepreneurship. In the conditions when literature is not saturated related to the subject matter, the original...
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The Firm as a Subsociety
Gartenberg, Claudine Madras; Zenger, Todd - 2022
Research in the “theory of the firm” tradition has often characterized firms as subeconomies in which economic exchange is shaped by a central authority. We propose an expanded view of firms as subsocieties in which authority is further responsible for establishing principles that shape...
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Diversified firms : existence and behaviors
Wernerfelt, Birger - In: Journal of institutional economics 18 (2022) 3, pp. 345-360
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The Teacher Versus the Student : Plant and Coase on the Firm
Walker, Paul - 2022
Plant (1937) versus Coase (1937) on the firm. Outlines of and comparisons between ‘The Nature of the Firm’ and ‘Centralise or Decentralise?’ are given. The nature of the relationship between the two papers is discussed
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Corporate Culture as a Theory of the Firm
Gorton, Gary B.; Zentefis, Alexander - 2022
Markets and firms offer contrasting methods to arrange production. In markets, contracts govern the purchase of parts and services that compose production. In firms, the shared values, customs, and norms coming from a corporate culture govern employees’ joint development of those parts and...
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The Firm Size-Leverage Relationship and its Implications for Entry and Business Concentration
Chatterjee, Satyajit; Eyigungor, Burcu - 2022
Larger firms (by sales or employment) have higher leverage. This pattern is explained using a model in which firms produce multiple varieties, acquire new varieties from their inventors, and borrow against the future cash flow of the firm with the option to default. A variety can die with a...
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Internal adjustment costs of firm-specific factors and the neoclassical theory of the firm
Chetty, V. Karuppan; Heckman, James J. - 2022
This paper considers the consequences of a two-sector vertically-integrated model of firms producing output using firm-specific capital with a second sector producing firm-specific capital by adapting raw capital purchased in the market. Analysts rarely observe each sector separately....
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Political institutions and corporate risk-taking : international evidence
Bao, Helen; Cardoza, Rohan - 2022
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From orchestra conductor to principal's agent : how internal financialization of top management has enabled external financialization of the firm
Baronian, Laurent; Pierre, Matari - In: Review of political economy 34 (2022) 1, pp. 23-44
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The deontic basis of the firm-implications for corporate governance
Lopes, Helena - In: European management review : EMR 19 (2022) 4, pp. 598-607
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The correspondence between Baumol and Galbraith (1957–1958) : an unsuspected source of managerial theories of the firm
Chirat, Alexandre - In: Including a symposium on the work of William J. Baumol: …, (pp. 49-65). 2022
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Strategy dynamics and the theory of the firm : homage to Richard Rumelt
Teece, David J. - In: Strategic management review 3 (2022) 2, pp. 265-294
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Firms versus corporations : a rebuttal of Simon Deakin, David Gindis, and Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Robé, Jean-Philippe - In: Journal of institutional economics 18 (2022) 4, pp. 693-701
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Action and Choice : An Introduction to Economics
Block, Walter; Jankovic, Ivan - 2022
Chapter 1. What is Economics? -- Chapter 2. Exchange and Demand -- Chapter 3. Determination of Prices -- Chapter 4. Capital, Interest and Production -- Chapter 5. Prices of Factors of Production -- Chapter 6. Money and the Business Cycle -- Chapter 7. Competition and Entrepreneurship -- Chapter...
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What the new institutional economics owes Marx
Dios, Emmanuel S. de - In: The Philippine review of economics : a joint … 56 (2019) 1/2, pp. 257-278
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The Nefarious hierarchy: An alternative new theory of the firm
Arend, Richard J. - In: Administrative Sciences 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-18
We propose a new theory of the firm based on the premise that "the firm" characterizes a factor-integrative form of doing business that is often the most effective and efficient structure for doing well by doing bad. We define the terms and requirements involved for such a theory, and fulfill...
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Optimal Promotions of Competing Firms in a Frictional Labour Market with Organizational Hierarchies
Zaharieva, Anna; Dawid, Herbert; Mitkova, Mariya - 2021
We study optimal promotion decisions of hierarchical firms, with one junior and one senior managerial position, which interact in a search and matching labour market. Workers acquire experience over time while being employed in a junior position and the firm has to determine the experience level...
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Entrepreneurial cognition or judgment : the management and economics approaches to the entrepreneur's choices
Gancarczyk, Marta; Ujwary-Gil, Anna - In: Journal of entrepreneurship, management and innovation … 17 (2021) 1, pp. 7-23
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The role of nonemployers in business dynamism and aggregate productivity
Bento, Pedro; Restuccia, Diego - 2021
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A review of servitization theoretical foundations
Ruiz-Martín, Agustín; Díaz-Garrido, Eloísa - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 14 (2021) 3, pp. 496-519
Purpose: This study seeks to analyse how the servitization topic has been addressed through different theoretical approaches. More specifically, the aim is to answer two key questions: What theoretical approaches have been used to study the phenomenon of servitization? What specific aspects of...
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Entrepreneurial orientation and new venture resource acquisition : why context matters
Yin, Miaomiao; Hughes, Mathew; Hu, Qilin - In: Asia Pacific journal of management 38 (2021) 4, pp. 1369-1398
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The correspondence between Baumol and Galbraith (1957-1958) : an unsuspected source of managerial theories of the firm
Chirat, Alexandre - 2021
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Empirical Implications of Alternative Models of Firm Dynamics
Pakes, Ariel; Ericson, Richard E. - 2021
This paper considers two models for analyzing the dynamics of firm behavior that allow for heterogeneity among firms, idiosyncratic (or firm specific) sources of uncertainty, and discrete outcomes (exit and/or entry). Models with these characteristics are needed for the structural econometric...
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The Governance of Not-for-Profit Firms
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021
Many factors including incentive-pay, powerful shareholders, and takeover threats push for-profits managers towards maximizing shareholder value. One of the most striking factors about non-profit firms is that they have no comparable governance institutions, and the only check on managers are...
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Firm Commitments
Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin T. - 2021
We provide a first empirical analysis of firm commitments to reduce their carbon emissions. A growing fraction of publicly traded companies around the world have already voluntarily made commitments to attain reductions in their emissions by a certain date or to reduce the emission intensity of...
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Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China : Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm
Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021
In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We observe China's processing exports broken down by who owns the plant and by who controls the inputs the plant processes. Multinational firms engaged in export processing in China...
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Discouraging Rivals : Managerial Rent-Seeking and Economic Inefficiencies
Edlin, Aaron S.; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2021
We argue here for a broader view of the biases in managers' decisions: In general, managerial rent-seeking affects not only the level of investment, but also the form. Our basic hypothesis is simple: given the now well-established scope for managerial discretion, managers have an incentive to...
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The Visible Hand, the Invisible Hand and Efficiency
Goldman, Eitan; Gorton, Gary B. - 2021
When a firm forms a market closes. Resources that were previously allocated via the price system are allocated by managerial authority within the firm. We explore this choice of organizational form using a model of price formation in which agents negotiate prices on behalf of their principals...
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Enter at Your Own Risk : HMO Participation and Enrollment in the Medicarerisk Market
Abraham, Jean Marie; Arora, Ashish; Gaynor, Martin; … - 2021
We examine HMO participation and enrollment in the Medicare risk market for the years 1990 to 1995. We develop a profit- maximization model of HMO behavior, which explicitly considers potential linkages between an HMO's production decision in the commercial enrollee market and its participation...
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Norms and the Theory of the Firm
Hart, Oliver - 2021
This paper discusses some of the attempts economists have made in the last ten years or so to integrate norms into the theory of the firm. The paper argues that (a) although norms are undoubtedly very important both inside and between firms, incorporating them into the theory has been very...
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Not-for-Profit Entrepreneurs
Glaeser, Edward L.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021
Entrepreneurs who start new firms may choose not-for-profit status as a means of committing to soft incentives. Such incentives protect donors, volunteers, consumers and employees from ex post expropriation of profits by the entrepreneur. We derive conditions under which completely...
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