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Including real options in firms ’ value raises numerous difficulties. Limitations concerning the relevance of option pricing models outside financial markets are the most salient, but carrying out a valuation implies other assumptions, especially on firms’ governance. In particular,...
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This paper explores corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the franchising sector. More specifically, using regulation theory, stakeholder-agency theory, transaction cost analysis, and literature on plural form, along with an empirical study conducted on the franchising sector in the...
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Despite a large body of literature on the topic and the continuously improving understanding of professionals, real options are not widely used to value firms. Numerous assumptions have been raised to explain the various obstacles to their adoption. Limits concerning the relevance of option...
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This paper contributes to literature by giving more precise measures to technological innovation in order to estimate … patent system which is different from the American one. Financial and innovation data are collected during 1990- 2012, for …-to-book ratio and knowledge assets is proved to be positive and significant. Innovation is more valuable when it contributes to …
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Scientific collaboration encompasses two main issues: knowledge sharing and trust. Geographical distance has an impact on both. Our purpose is to test the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) sophistication on remote collaboration: do collaboratories mean the end of...
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This paper examines scientific collaboration between French public research teams and distant partners. We first analyse the role and the development of trust and then, the relation between the degree of sophistication of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the constraint of...
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What role can academics – especially in management research – have in management innovation ? Can they only be ex post … do they play a more active role ? From the analysis of five historical, pioneering cases of management innovation, we …
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based on innovation. Private equity activity is in this regard a better mode of financing innovative enterprises added to …
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correlated to the size of investment of the innovation projects and the level of seniority is positively associated to the most … innovative projects. The seniority of champions explains positively the innovation success, but the hierarchical level has no …
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