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This paper examines the impact of coordination costs and organizational rigidity on the returns to diversification. The … central thesis is that coordination costs offset economies of scope, while organizational rigidity increases coordination … costs, further constraining economies of scope. The empirical tests of this proposition identify the effects of coordination …
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level through the diversification extension degree (both under the products aspect and under the geographic area aspect …
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To understand why some patents get licensed and others do not we estimate a portfolio of firm- and patent-level determinants for why a particular licensor's patent was licensed over all technologically similar patents held by other licensors. Using data for licensed biopharmaceutical patents, we...
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Over the years since airline deregulation five of the remaining U.S. legacy carriers lost money on mergers that cost them a total of $29.6 billion. The combined market cap of these carriers at the end of 2007 was $15.5 billion. In other words, their return on merger investments was -48%. Why?...
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Existing studies suggest that platform access restrictions may cause restricted complementors to switch to competing platforms, which will increase complement quantity on competing platforms. We re-examine this prediction by accounting for the impact of economies of scope on complementor...
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While the traditional banking theory and portfolio theory favour diversification strategy for better performance the … between sectoral loan diversification and the banks' performance. This paper empirically investigates the relationship between … the sectoral diversification and the performance of Sri Lankan domestic licensed commercial banks over the period of 2008 …
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private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The …
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for this puzzle. They explain that an improvement in transport technology can increase the transport costs, because it … coordination. Such a coordination is easier between neighbors than between very distant countries. As a result, trade increases …
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Mobile computing, the so-called Internet of Things, and the rapid expansion of Internet connectivity all over the world are combining to challenge long-standing assumptions about the mission, function, and reach of traditional organizational forms. Uber is a fast-growing company with several...
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