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Die Betriebswirtschaftslehre ist ein relativ junges Fach. Mit der zunehmenden Bedeutung derWirtschaft im 20. Jahrhundert sind seine Studentenzahlen und sein Gewicht innerhalb derHochschulen gewachsen. Der Betrag arbeitet die wichtigsten Bestimmungsgrößen und strukturellenVeränderungen der...
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Many social networks have the following properties: (i) a short average distancebetween any two individuals; (ii) a high clustering coe±cient; (iii) segregation pat-terns; the presence of (iv) brokers and (v) hubs. (i) and (ii) de¯ne a small worldnetwork. This paper develops a strategic...
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This paper analyses the process of knowledge growth in a branch of medical science. Our study of scientific advances in glaucoma research is organized in two parts. In the first we present a qualitative overview of the problem sequences that have characterized 150 years of medical research in...
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This paper examines the puzzlingly high unexploited momentum returns from a new perspective.We analyze characteristics of momentum traders in a sample of 692 fund managers. Wefind that momentum traders are “defined” by their short-term horizon, by a behavioural viewon the market and by a...
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When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise becauseworkers typically do not know where other workers apply to and firms do not know whichcandidates other firms consider. The first coordination friction affects network formation, whilethe second coordination...
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This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation. One exception is the negative effect of innovation...
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This paper experimentally investigates the interdependence between market competition and endogenously emerging inter-firm collaboration. We restrict attention to arrangements resulting from bilateral collaboration agreements that typically characterize real world applications in which the...
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We consider a modi¯ed pure public good game characterized by a pre-play negotiation stage, onwhich pairs of players can form binding cooperation commitments. As the introduced mecha-nism only supports pairwise rather than more inclusive commitments, it does not implement thee±cient outcome. We...
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departments have historically differentrules on the provision of feedback to their students. Our theoretical framework makes … precisethat if feedback provides students with a signal of their true ability, then the effect of feedbackdepends on the balance … of standard substitution and income effects, and whether students areover or under confident with regards to their true …
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leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects of class size on students’ test scores. We observe the same student …-linear class size effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both individual students and faculty. We find that — (i) at …) students at the top of the test score distribution are more affected by changes in class size, especially when class sizes are …
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