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A Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis of the Performance of Global Cities

Kourtit, Karima; Macharis, Cathy; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

competition on their integral performance. The present paper aims to trace to what extent and why some cities outperform others … explicit consideration of the perceptions of important classes of stakeholders on the performance outcomes of the various …

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Does Losing Lead to Winning? An Empirical Analysis for Four Different Sports

Teeselink, Bouke Klein; van den Assem, Martijn J.; van … - 2020

Berger and Pope (2011) show that being slightly behind increases the likelihood of winning in professional and collegiate basketball. We extend their analysis to large samples of Australian football, American football and rugby matches, but find little to no evidence of such an effect for these...

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The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities

Picchio, Matteo; van Ours, Jan - 2023

reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of male professional tennis …. We find that performance significantly decreases with ambient temperature. The magnitude of the temperature effect is age … players do. The effect of temperature on performance is smaller when there is more at stake. Our findings also suggest that …

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Entrepreneurial Couples

Dahl, Michael S.; van Praag, Mirjam; Thompson, Peter - 2014

performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …

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Knowledge Virtualization and Local Connectedness among Smart High-tech Companies

van Geenhuizen, Marina; Nijkamp, Peter - 2011

Smart high-tech companies are characterized by knowledge intensity and open innovation. Even when these companies emerge in spatial clusters or dense urban places, they may utilize knowledge networks on a global scale. However, there is not much insight into the factors that shape knowledge...

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Acceleration of Technology Adoption withing Firms

Koellinger, Philipp; Schade, Christian - 2008

This paper studies the diffusion of multiple, related technologies among firms. The results suggest an endogenous acceleration mechanism of technology adoption: The more advanced a firm is in using a particular set of technologies, the more likely it is to adopt additional, related technologies....

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2013

-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …

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Data Science in Strategy: Machine learning and text analysis in the study of firm growth

Kolkman, Daan; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen - 2019

This study examines the applicability of modern Data Science techniques in the domain of Strategy. We apply novel techniques from the field of machine learning and text analysis. WE proceed in two steps. First, we compare different machine learning techniques to traditional regression methods in...

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Market power in bilateral oligopoly markets with non-expandable infrastructures

Funaki, Yukihiko; Houba, Harold; Motchenkova, Evgenia - 2019

We develop a novel model of price-fee competition in bilateral oligopoly markets with non-expandable infrastructures and costly transportation. The model captures a variety of real market situations and it is the continuous quantity version of the assignment game with indivisible goods on a...

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Adoption of Superior Technology in Markets with Heterogeneous Network Externalities and Price Competition

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Mendys, Ewa - 2000

In this paper we investigate whether markets with heterogeneous network externalities can belocked-in by old technologies even if superior technologies are available. Heterogeneous networkexternalities are present when some consumers care more about the size of the market share of agood than...

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