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The decision of how best to appropriate the value of new economic knowledge is reached by individuals within the context of the decision-making process embedded in the principal-agent model and applied to organizations. Because new economic knowledge is not only imperfect but also inherently...
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presence of network externalities tends to make the entrepreneur prefer sale to entry. Moreover, we also show that the … incentive to innovate for entry decreases when network effects become stronger, whereas there is an increase in the incentive … of increasing entry by entrepreneurs. However, this may come at the cost of reducing the research intensity by reducing …
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This Paper examines the effect of price competition on innovation, market structure and profitability in R&D-intensive industries. The theoretical predictions are tested using UK data on the evolution of competition, concentration, innovation counts and profitability over 1952-77. The...
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This paper contains a brief survey of recent empirical work on the performance of large companies. It tries to pull together the literature in the form of six stylized facts, illustrating them with data drawn from a single sample. The paper concludes by highlighting the issues which are thrown...
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