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Cultural Stereotypes of Multinational Banks

Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using hand-collected data spanning more than a decade on European banks' sovereign debt portfolios, we show that the trust of residents of a bank's countries of operation in the residents of a potential target country of investment has a positive, statistically significant, and economically...

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The Big Three and Board Gender Diversity : The Effectiveness of Shareholder Voice

Gormley, Todd A.; Gupta, Vishal K.; Matsa, David A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards. We estimate that their campaigns led American corporations to add at least 2.5 times as many female directors in 2019 as they had in 2016. Firms increased diversity by...

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Hall of Mirrors : Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy

Bertrand, Marianne - 2018

Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the...

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To Starve or to Stoke? : Understanding Whether Divestment vs. Investment Can Steer (Green) Innovation

Pless, Jacquelyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

divestment to combat climate change. Will it work? This chapter explores whether divestment might induce green innovation, a … critical component of transitioning to a cleaner economy. Divestment could theoretically steer innovation by increasing the … investment opportunities. I argue that continuing to invest in dirty industries could drive green innovation conditional on …

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Corporate Flexibility in a Time of Crisis

Barry, John W.; Campello, Murillo; Graham, John R.; Ma, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use the COVID shock to study the direct and interactive effects of several forms of corporate flexibility on short- and long-term real business plans. We find that i) workplace flexibility, namely the ability for employees to work remotely, plays a central role in determining firms'...

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Choosing Technology : An Entrepreneurial Strategy Approach

Gans, Joshua S. - 2020

A central premise of research in the strategic management of innovation is that start-ups are able to leverage emerging … imitation. Our findings suggest that staged exploration may stall innovation as a result of the replacement effect, increasing …

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From Imitation to Innovation : Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?

König, Michael - 2020

two strategies toward that end: imitation and innovation. The theory bears predictions about the evolution of the …

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Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity

Baron, Justus A.; Ganglmair, Bernhard; Persico, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Representation of women and minorities in a "selectorate"--the group that chooses an organization's leaders--is a key mechanism for promoting diversity. We show that representation, on its own, is not sufficient for selecting gender diversity: a supportive organizational culture is also...

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Corporate Culture

Gorton, Gary; Grennan, Jill; Zentefis, Alexander K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Corporate culture is an omnibus term that includes many elements like norms, values, knowledge, and customs that are relevant to a firm. Economists have made great progress recently in devising methods of measuring different aspects of corporate culture. These empirical measures of culture have...

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Social Progress and Corporate Culture

Gorton, Gary B. - 2019

Social progress through improved treatment of minority groups (the embrace of anti-racist and anti-sexist norms, for example) may or may not spread to corporate cultures through competition. Sometimes the market fails to adapt on its own and government must pass legislation to secure changes in...

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