The purpose of this paper is to assess the state of corporate governance as a major factor affecting the growth … synthesized. Strengths and weaknesses of corporate governance in selected Arab countries have been highlighted. One major key … Principles of corporate governance. However, practices are not. The difficulty of the assessments is to reflect properly the …

-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …

The underlying theoretical assumption of this paper is that if firms can imitate an innovation at a cost that is … substantially below the cost of the innovator to carry out the innovation, there may be little or no incentive to carry out the … innovation. Cost and time required for imitating new products and processes have an important effect on the incentives for …

aggressive development of a basic innovation by better informed venture-backed firms is used as a signaling device to enhance the … sale price of the innovation. We then show that incumbents can undertake early, preemptive, acquisitions to prevent such … signaling driven overinvestment, despite the risk of buying a non-productive innovation. Therefore, to exist in equilibrium …