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Enabling Entrepreneurial Choice
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2020
Entrepreneurs must choose between alternative strategies for bringing their idea to market. They face uncertainty regarding both the quality of their idea as well as the efficacy of each strategy. While entrepreneurs can reduce this uncertainty by conducting tests, any single test conflates the...
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Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Disruptive Technologies : Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry
Marx, Matt - 2013
When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance metric, but with a potentially favorable trajectory of improvement - incumbents may be wary of engaging in cooperative commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing...
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Organizational Decision Making Under Uncertainty Shocks
Ballesteros, Luis - 2018
In line with the fallacy of riskification of uncertainty by which decision makers believe that the effects of … markets, such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and financial crises--as a problem of risk management. This is … business continuity. Taken together, this article offers the foundation for a behaviorally plausible, decision …
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A Theory of Firm Scope
Hart, Oliver - 2008
ingredients: (a) decision rights can be transferred ex ante through ownership, (b) managers (and possibly workers) enjoy private …
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How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
Gompers, Paul - 2016
organization; and relationships with limited partners. In selecting investments, VCs see the management team as more important than …
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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply … reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We … find large cross-country differences in the adoption of management practices, with the US having the highest size …
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Picture This : Social Distance and the Mistreatment of Migrant Workers
Barsbai, Toman; Bartoš, Vojtěch; Licuanan, Victoria S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
International migrant workers are vulnerable to abuses by their employers. We implemented a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to reduce mistreatment of Filipino women working as domestic workers (DWs) by their household employers in Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia. The intervention --...
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Intermediaries in Entrepot Trade : Hong Kong Re-Exports of Chinese Goods
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2001
In this paper, we examine Hong Kong's role in intermediating trade between China and the rest of the world. Hong Kong distributes a large fraction of China's exports. Net of customs, insurance, and freight charges, re-exports of Chinese goods are much more expensive when they leave Hong Kong...
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Hong Kong's Business Regulation in Transition
Wu, Changqi - 1997
The transition of Hong Kong's main economic activities from manufacturing to services is accompanied by gradual changes in the regulatory regimes for monopolies. The local telecommunication services industry has been liberalized, deregulation of public transport is taking shape, and the schemes...
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TFPG Controversies, Institutions, and Economic Performance in East Asia
Rodrik, Dani - 1997
The controversy over the appropriate partitioning of East Asian growth into accumulation versus technical change has overlooked a fundamental indeterminacy in measurement. As a result, we cannot rule out the possibility that East Asia has in fact experienced a tremendous amount of technological...
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