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Corporate purpose and financial performance

Gartenberg, Claudine; Prat, Andrea; Serafeim, George - 2016

performance. However, high purpose firms come in two forms: firms characterized by high camaraderie between workers and firms … higher future accounting and stock market performance, even after controlling for current performance, and that this relation … of their organization and the clarity in the path towards that purpose experience better performance …

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Heterogeneidade estrutural na produção agropecuária : uma comparação da produtividade total dos fatores no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos

Fornazier, Armando; Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2013

Brazilian agriculture has undergone a process of transformation in recent decades, being featured on the world agricultural production at both the production and productivity. The United States are characterized as highlighted in the agricultural world, therefore, is a reference for comparison...

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The relationship between environmental efficiency and manufacturing firm's growth

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - 2008

of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance …-environmental performance relationship. Signals of inverted U shape appear: this may be a signal that both firm strategies and recent policy … ; Economic Performance ; Environmental Performance …

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Innovation Market Failures and the Design of New Climate Policy Instruments

Armitage, Sarah C.; Bakhtian, Noël; Jaffe, Adam B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Moving beyond the combination of adoption subsidies, standards, and (albeit limited) attempts at carbon pricing that largely characterized U.S. climate policy over the last decade, recent climate-related legislation has transformed not only the scale of U.S. climate activities but also the...

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Horizontal ownership and brand affiliation in service industries : evidence from nursing homes

Brickley, James A.; Lu, Susan Feng; Wedig, Gerard J. - 2011

Multi-unit ownership and branding are separate decisions and non-consumer audiences can affect both. In this study we distinguish between the branding and chaining decisions of nursing homes, while measuring the effects of litigation and labor unions on these decisions. Chaining (independent of...

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R&D productivity and firm size in semiconductors and pharmaceuticals : evidence from citation yields

Dindaroğlu, Burak - 2011

important and R&D-intensive industries: Semiconductors and Pharmaceuticals. I employ two measures of a firm's R&D performance …

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Scalable Demand and Markups

Atalay, Enghin; Frost, Erika; Sorensen, Alan T.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study changes in markups across 72 product markets from 2006 to 2018. A growing literature has documented a rise in markups over time using a production function approach; we instead employ the standard microeconomic method, which is to estimate demand and then invert firms' first-order...

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Accelerating Innovation Ecosystems : The Promise and Challenges of Regional Innovation Engines

Guzman, Jorge; Murray, Fiona E. S.; Stern, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Motivated by the establishment of major U.S. Federal programs seeking to harness the potential of regional innovation ecosystems, we assess the promise and challenges of place-based innovation policy interventions. Relative to traditional research grants, place-based innovation policy...

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What drives differences in management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...

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Does product market competition lead firms to decentralize?

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2010

There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This...

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