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How should organizations of intelligent agents be designed so that they exhibit high performance despite information … distortion? We present a formal information-based network model of organizational performance given a distributed decision making … environment in which agents encounter a radar detection task. Using this model, we examine the performance of organizations with …
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We investigate whether the gender composition of teams affects their economic performance. We study a large business … across the performance distribution, we find that for undergraduates, three-women teams are outperformed throughout, but by … top, the best performing group is two men and one woman. The differences in performance are explained by differences in …
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We analyze how entrepreneurial opportunity cost conditions performance. Departing from the common practice of using … survival as a measure of entrepreneurial performance, we model both failure and cash-out (liquidity event) as conditioned by … also more likely to fail faster. Not only is survival a poor indicator of performance, but its use as one obscures the …
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This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture--in the sense of shared beliefs and values--in order to study the effects of "culture clash" in mergers and acquisitions. I first use a simple analytical framework to show that shared beliefs lead to more...
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Using financial measures of performance we investigate the sources of value creation in the U.S. brewing industry … and that the performance of individual leading firms is highly correlated. Our interpretation is that the success of …
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manufacturer size for each JIT practice. Ten changes in performance attributed to JIT implementation are also assessed and examined … the JIT practices and of each of the changes in performance in small and large manufacturers. The results of the study … performance attributed to JIT implementation vary, depending on implementation status of specific JIT management practices and …
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doctoral candidates who conducted a collaborative Ph.D. project outperform their peers in academic performance. Less …
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