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The economics of IPR protection policies

Gil, Ricard - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2006

and taxes that best fits its goals. We find that governments that focus entirely on eradicating piracy use lower levels of … size. This result highlights the importance of demand side policies in the fight against piracy and posts a challenge to …

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Effort, loyalty and idealism

Gallo, Miguel A.; Cappuyns, Kristin - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2004

The purpose of this pioneering study in the field of family business is to measure the degree of commitment to the family business among family members who do not actually work in the firm. After analyzing the characteristics of these people, we identify four very different groups. The existence...

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Ethics of personal behaviour in family business.

Gallo, Miguel A.; Cappuyns, Kristin - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 1998

This paper summarizes the preliminary findings of a research project of an exploratory nature currently being conducted …

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Characteristics of successful family businesses

Gallo, Miguel A.; Cappuyns, Kristin - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2004

In response to the statistics showing high mortality among family businesses, this study looks at a group of Spanish family businesses (FBs) that have demonstrated an ability to grow and innovate. Typically, these FBs have gained prestige in the Spanish economy not only because they have reached...

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Coherence between values and successor socialization: Facilitating family business continuity

Garcia Alvarez, Ercilia; Lopez, Jordi - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2003

. Research in management agrees with the findings in family business research regarding the preference for an insider as … will add value to the firm by seeking new opportunities and fostering entrepreneurship. Parties external to the firm are … are grounded in combined qualitative and quantitative techniques applied to an extensive research project involving in …

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Internationalization via strategic alliances in family businesses.

Gallo, Miguel A.; Ariño, Africa; Mañez, Isabel; … - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2004

It has been observed in previous studies that certain characteristics of family businesses may impede internationalization. These characteristics include the concentration of decision-making in the hands of a single shareholder or small group of shareholders, delays in the succession process,...

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Family members who do not work in the family business: How to enhance their "unity" and "commitment"

Gallo, Miguel A.; Cappuyns, Kristin - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2004

driving forces behind the success of Family Businesses (FBs). Whereas the earlier research dealt with family members who are …

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Emotional assuring, trust Building, and resource mobilization in start-up organizations

Huy, Quy; Zott, Christoph - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2009

Based on a five-year field study of six new ventures, we investigate whether and how organization foun-ders use affective influence, a form of emotion management, with diverse stakeholders, namely investors, board members, customers, and employees. We found wide differences in founders'...

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Entrepreneurial behaviour in a large traditional firm: exploring key drivers

Mair, Johanna - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2002

entrepreneurial activity, little research has looked at why -in the same objective organizational context- some managers act … variance within the same company. Drawing on literature in entrepreneurship, strategic management, organizational behaviour and … rigorous research design, this study broadens our understanding of the main determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour within …

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Why stakeholder and stockholder theories are not necessarily contradictory: A knightian insight

Velamuri, Rama; Venkataraman, Sankaran - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2005

The normative foundations of the investor centered model of corporate governance, represented in mainstream economics by the nexus-of-contracts view of the firm, have come under attack, mainly by proponents of normative stakeholder theory. We argue that the nexus-of-contracts view is static and...

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