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Helping Small Businesses become more Data-Driven : A Field Experiment on eBay

Bar-Gill, Sagit; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hak, Nir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

As more and more activities in the economy become digitized, analytics and data-driven decision-making (DDD) are becoming increasingly important. The adoption of analytics and DDD has been slower in small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) compared to large firms, and reliable causal estimates of the...

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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms : Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

Link, Albert N. - 2012

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

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Corporate Culture : Evidence from the Field

Graham, John R. - 2017

it should be. Executives link culture to ethical choices (compliance, short-termism), innovation (creativity, taking …

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Executives' "Off-The-Job" Behavior, Corporate Culture, and Financial Reporting Risk

Davidson, Robert - 2012

We examine how executives' behavior outside the workplace, as measured by their ownership of luxury goods (low "frugality") and prior legal infractions, is related to financial reporting risk. We predict and find that CEOs and CFOs with a legal record are more likely to perpetrate fraud. In...

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Management and Misallocation in Mexico

Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of …

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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...

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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution

Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018

. shared leadership, establish stability in shared leadership, or experience repeated discord-induced TMT leader departures …. While most firms do not experience smooth transitions to stable shared TMT leadership, a focus on value creation, in … conjunction with talent recruitment and promotion, enabled some firms to achieve stable shared leadership in spite of discord …

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The Performance Effects of IT-Enabled Knowledge Management Practices

Cappelli, Peter - 2010

The extensive literature on knowledge management spans several fields, but there are remarkably few studies that address the basic question as to whether knowledge management practices improve organizational performance. I examine that question using a national probability sample of...

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Securing Their Future? Entry And Survival In The Information Security Industry

Arora, Ashish - 2007

In this paper we study how the existence of a functioning market for technology differentially conditions the entry strategy and survival of different types of entrants, and the role of scale, marketing ability and technical assets. Markets for technology facilitate entry of firms that lack...

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Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access

Greenstein, Shane - 2007

Economic experiments yield lessons to firms that can be acquired only through market experience. Economic experiments cannot take place in a laboratory; scientists, engineers, or marketing executives cannot distill equivalent lessons from simply building a prototype or interviewing potential...

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