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Hughes, A.; Mina, A. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

The authors consider the theory and evidence on the propensity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to patent their innovations. Drawing on UK, European and US literature and data sources, they show that small firms are less likely to use patents as a means of protecting their investment...

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Law, Finance and Development Further Analyses of Longitudinal Data

Sarkar, Prabirjit; Singh, Ajit - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2009

This paper analyses a longitudinal dataset on legal protection of shareholders over a 36 year period, 1970-2005 for four advanced countries, UK, France, Germany and the US. It examines two aspects of the legal origin hypothesis - whether shareholder protection is higher in the common law...

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Theorizing Corporate Governance: New Organizational Alternatives

Learmount, Simon - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

This paper contrasts 'economic' and 'organizational' approaches to corporate governance, in order to draw out some of their distinctive features and discuss their relative strengths and weaknesses. Some promising areas of new research are identified which examine the role of social controls and...

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Management characteristics, collaboration and innovative efficiency: evidence from UK survey data

Cosh, Andy; Fu, Xiaolan; Hughes, Alan - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2005

recent firm level survey database for 465 innovative British small and medium enterprises (SMEs) over the years 1998 …

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R&D and Patenting Activity and the Propensity to Acquire in High Technology Industries

Dessyllas, Panayotis; Hughes, Alan - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2005

firm’s existing knowledge base. Second, we find evidence in favour of the make-or-buy theory that acquisitions are a … accumulated knowledge enhances a firm’s ability to absorb external knowledge through acquisitions. These results suggest that …

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The national varieties of capitalism: the cases of Wal-mart and Ikea

Konzelmann, Suzanne; Craypo, Charles; Aridi, Rabih; … - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2005

Using the cases of Wal-Mart and IKEA, this paper takes a productive systems approach to examine Ôvarieties of capitalismÕ from the perspective of the ways by which production and market relations are structured and prioritised. It considers the nature of these relations and their interaction...

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Corporate Governance, Competition And Finance: Re-Thinking Lessons From The Asian Crisis

Glen, Jack; Singh, Ajit - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2004

This paper critically examines the Greenspan-Summers-IMF thesis concerning the Asian crisis, which suggested that the fundamental causes of the Asian crisis lay in the microeconomic behavior of economic agents in these societies - in the Asian way of doing business. The paper concentrates on...

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Meanings of ownership of the firm

Learmount, Simon; Roberts, John - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

The notion of 'ownership of the firm' is central to conventional treatments of corporate governance, yet there is very … ownership of the firm that we have found in two empirical studies carried out in the UK and Japan. Our aim is to illuminate and … disturb some of the commonly taken for granted notions of what it means to 'own' a firm. …

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The revealed preferences of high technology acquirers: an analysis of the characteristics of their targets

Dessyllas, Panayotis; Hughes, Alan - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2005

In this paper we investigate the motives of high-tech acquieres by analysing their revealed preferences in terms of the high-tech companies they acquire.

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An Empirical Investigation of the Terms of Corporate Charters and Influences on Term Standardization in a Laissez-Faire Environment

Whincop, Michael - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2000

More than fifty years before the debate about the contractibility of corporate law in the United States, English and then Australian lawmakers truncated what had been substantial scope for contracting around directors' duties. Legislation imposed mandatory rules concerning conflicts of interest...

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