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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects
Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
sheets and innovation, representative of the entire Canadian economy, we study recent theories that examine life … frictions, learning about demand, and recent endogenous growth models with incumbent innovation. We emphasize the importance of … empirical successes and shortcomings of current theory. First, models of organizational capital and innovation are broadly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951103
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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work
bandiera, oriana; Sadun, Raffaella; Prat, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is known about what top executives actually do, and whether it differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721448
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Estimating Management Practice Complementarity between Decentralization and Performance Pay
Hong, Bryan; Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The existence of complementarity across management practices has been proposed as one potential explanation for the persistence of firm-level productivity differences. However, thus far no conclusive population-level tests of the complementary joint adoption of management practices have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123618
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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213640
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Instruments of Commerce and Knowledge: Probe Microscopy, 1980-2000
Mody, Cyrus C. M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Longstanding debates about the role of the university in national culture and the global economy have entered a new phase in the past decade in most industrialized, and several industrializing, countries. One important focus of this debate is corporate involvement in academic scientific...
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
to fostering innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969384
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Evaluating the Role of Science Philanthropy in American Research Universities
Murray, Fiona E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Philanthropy plays a major role in university-based scientific, engineering and medical research in the United States contributing over $4Billion annually to operations, endowment and buildings devoted to research. When combined with endowment income, university research funding from science...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969430
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NIH Peer Review: Challenges and Avenues for Reform
Graff Zivin, Joshua; Azoulay, Pierre; Manso, Gustavo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The National Institute of Health (NIH), through its extramural grant program, is the primary public funder of health-related research in the United States. Peer review at NIH is organized around the twin principles of investigator initiation and rigorous peer review, and this combination has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969438
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Negotiating for the Market
Gans, Joshua S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
incumbents and entrants in a cumulative innovation environment; that is, entrants may not be adequately compensated for losses in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950674
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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property: Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950753