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The Other Side of Value : Good Growth and the Gross Profitability Premium
Novy-Marx, Robert - 2010
Profitability, as measured by gross profits-to-assets, has roughly the same power as book-to-market predicting the cross-section of average returns. Profitable firms generate significantly higher average returns than unprofitable firms, despite having, on average, lower book-to-markets and...
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Strategic fit of sustainable supply chains : eine empirische Kausalanalyse
Altmann, Margarete - 2016
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Connective Capital as Social Capital : The Value of Problem-Solving Networks for Team Players in Firms
Ichniowski, Casey - 2009
Traditional human capital theory emphasizes a worker's investment in knowledge. However, when a worker is faced with day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within the firm. When a worker taps into the knowledge of...
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A Theory of Firm Decline
Clementi, Gian Luca - 2009
We study the problem of an investor who buys an equity stake in an entrepreneurial venture, under the assumption that the former cannot monitor the latter's operations. The dynamics implied by the optimal incentive scheme is rich and quite different from that induced by other models of repeated...
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A Theory of Firm Scope
Hart, Oliver - 2008
The existing literature on firms, based on incomplete contracts and property rights, emphasizes that the ownership of assets - and thereby firm boundaries - is determined in such a way as to encourage relationship-specific investments by the appropriate parties. It is generally accepted that...
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The Impact of Pollution Abatement Investment on Productivity Change : AnEmpirical Comparison of the U.S., Germany, and Canada
Conrad, Klaus - 1985
expenses incurred to satisfy these regulations, such as investment in pollution abatement capital, is unproductive in terms of … paper we construct a model which explicitly recognizes the difference between pollution abatement capital and "productive … and Germany, and thereby assess the impact of increased pollution abatement capital regulation on productivity growth. Our …
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The contribution of foundations to an ecofriendly and sustainable development
Krikser, Thomas - 2016
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Lokale Agenda 21 und nachhaltige Entwicklung in deutschen Kommunen : [10 Jahre nach Rio: Bilanz und Perspektiven]
Rösler, Cornelia; Kuhn, Stefan - Deutschland / Umweltbundesamt - 2002 - 1. Aufl
Der von mehreren Institutionen erarbeitete Bericht versteht sich als Bilanz und Ausblick 10 Jahre nach Rio. Sein erster Abschnitt liefert eine Darstellung der Ausgangsbedingungen in Deutschland. Kommunale Nachhaltigkeit ist Gegenstand des zweiten Abschnitts, in dem die Eckpunkte wie der...
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