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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms
Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2015
Business strategy can be defined as a firm's plan to generate economic profits based on lower cost, better quality, or … new products. The analysis of business strategy is thus at the intersection of market competition and a firm's efforts to … secure persistently superior performance via investments in better management and organization. We empirically analyze the …
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Quantum Economic Advantage
Bova, Francesco; Goldfarb, Avi; Melko, Roger G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A quantum computer exhibits a quantum advantage when it can perform a calculation that a classical computer is unable to complete. It follows that a company with a quantum computer would be a monopolist in the market for solving such a calculation if its only competitor was a company with a...
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FinTech, BigTech, and the Future of Banks
Stulz, René M. - 2019
Banks are unique in that they combine the production of liquid claims with loans. They can replicate most of what FinTech firms can do, but FinTech firms benefit from an uneven playing field in that they are less regulated than banks. The uneven playing field enables non-bank FinTech firms to...
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What is the Business of Business?
Nilsson, Andreas - 2017
This paper develops a simple framework for understanding the emergence of new organizational forms, such as socially responsible firms and social entrepreneurs, that embody the private sector's efforts to resolve problems that typically have been within the purview of government and traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455177
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The Productivity Advantage of Serial Entrepreneurs
Shaw, Kathryn L. - 2017
Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001-2013, the serial entrepreneur has 67% higher sales than the...
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Of Academics and Creative Destruction : Startup Advantage in the Process of Innovation
Kolev, Julian; Haughey, Alexis; Murray, Fiona E. S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of commercializing research from top U.S. universities; however, prior work has little to say on the particular advantages of startup ventures in the innovation process relative to more...
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Management and Misallocation in Mexico
Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US …. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of … greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker size-management relationship compared to the US, particularly in the highly …
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Corporate Flexibility in a Time of Crisis
Barry, John W.; Campello, Murillo; Graham, John R.; Ma, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use the COVID shock to study the direct and interactive effects of several forms of corporate flexibility on short- and long-term real business plans. We find that i) workplace flexibility, namely the ability for employees to work remotely, plays a central role in determining firms'...
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Uncertainty and Change : Survey Evidence of Firms' Subjective Beliefs
Bachmann, Ruediger; Carstensen, Kai; Lautenbacher, Stefan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies how managers plan under uncertainty. In a new survey panel on German manufacturing firms, we show that uncertainty reflects change: Planning incorporates higher subjective uncertainty about future sales growth when the firm has just experienced unusual growth, and more so if...
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The Effects of Going Public on Firm Performance and Commercialization Strategy : Evidence from International IPOs
Larrain, Borja; Phillips, Gordon M.; Sertsios, Giorgo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
shift towards a strategy of commercialization to increase profitability …
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