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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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Equity links and information acquisition in biotechnology alliances

Filson, Darren; Morales, Rosa - 2001

We use a simple model of collaborative innovation to structure an empirical analysis of minority equity links in biotechnology alliances between clients and R&D firms. In the model, an equity link is an investment in information acquisition: it improves the ability of the client to learn about...

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Examination of the individual competencies that differentiate results in direct sales

Sypniewska, Barbara A. - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 1, pp. 83-100

The importance of knowledge and skills in meeting new challenges in production and distribution is particularly evident in today’s market, which is characterized by a saturation of products and strong competition. To be successful in the market, companies must stand out and be creative and...

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The Human Capital Management Movement in U.S. Corporate Law

Georgiev, George S. - 2021

Corporations cannot exist without workers, yet workers are not part of the formal or informal governance structures established by U.S. corporate law. Commentators and policymakers have bemoaned this state of affairs for decades, to little avail. Since the mid-2010s, however, a concept related...

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Are Productivity Levels Higher in Some European Countries than in the United States?

Cette, Gilbert - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 59-68

Estimates produced by the OECD indicate that labour productivity levels are higher in a number of European countries than in the United States, implying that Europe and not the United States is the world technological leader. The author argues that a structural measure of labour productivity,...

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The dynamics of resource allocation in research organizations

Filson, Darren - 2000

As a first step towards understanding the evolution of small groups in firms, this paper develops and tests a simple decision-theoretical model of research-unit evolution in which, as managers resolve their uncertainty over time, they shut down under-performing units and remove under-performing...

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Role and Contribution of Foreign-Born Scientists and Engineers to the Public U.S. Nanoscience and Technology Research Enterprise

Libaers, Dirk - 2007

indicator of scientific performance - individual research productivity. In a large sample of public sector researchers in …

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Competition and R&D Financing : Evidence from the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Thakor, Richard T. - 2018

What is the interaction between competition, R&D investments, and the financing choices of R&D-intensive firms? Motivated by existing theories, we hypothesize that as competition increases, R&D-intensive firms will: (1) increase R&D investment relative to assets-in-place that support existing...

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Demand-Pull and Innovation in the U.S. Solar Market

Rai, Varun - 2013

It is widely known that demand-pull policies in the United States, especially the federal investment tax credits (ITC) and the California Solar Initiative (CSI), have led to a rapid escalation in the installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. But there has been little systematic study into...

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Competition and R&D Financing : Evidence from the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Thakor, Richard T.; Lo, Andrew W. - 2021

The interaction between product market competition, R&D investment, and the financing choices of R&D-intensive firms on the development of innovative products is only partially understood. To motivate empirical hypotheses about this interaction, we develop a model which predicts that as...

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