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In this paper, we study the effects of business culture on market efficiency. We exogenously vary the type of business culture between business-is-business cultures, which consist on impersonal relationships where financial matters are paramount, and business-is-family cultures, which comprise...
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We study how secular culture affects firm behavior when formal institutions fall short. We find that firms more exposed to alcohol-related sin culture exhibit more earnings management and lean their operations more toward local business partners. Tests using latitude and snow/temperature as...
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Business practices and performance vary widely across businesses within the same sector. A key outstanding question is why profitable practices do not readily diffuse. We conduct a field experiment among urban retailers in Indonesia to study whether alleviating informational and behavioral...
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In this paper, we study the effects of business culture on market efficiency. We exogenously vary the type of business culture between business-is-business cultures, which consist on impersonal relationships where financial matters are paramount, and business-is-family cultures, which comprise...
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behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may … construct an index of parent-child communication quality by comparing responses to statements about the children’s well …-being from both children and their parents. Applying the constructed communication measure in a continuous treatment empirical …
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Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …
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