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Trabandt, Mathias - 2007

Aufsatz untersucht, wie sich das Verhalten von Haushalten und Firmen in den USA und EU-15 infolge von Steuerveränderungen … anpasst. Mittels eines neoklassischen Wachstumsmodells zeigt sich, dass die USA und EU-15 auf der linken Seite der Lohn- und … Kapitalsteuer Laffer Kurve liegen. Die EU-15 befindet sich jedoch viel näher an der rutschigen Steigung als die USA. Eine dynamische …

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The impact of socialist imprinting and search on resource change: a study of firms in lithuania

Kriauciunas, Aldas; Kale, Prashant - 2006

Firms in transition economies experienced a large exogenous shock in their external business environment in the late 1980s when these economies moved from a socialist-oriented economic environment to a more market-oriented economic environment. This paper examines the following research question...

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Structural homophily or social asymmetry? The formation of alliances by poorly embedded firms

Ahuja, Gautam; Polidoro, Francisco; Mitchell, Will - 2009

Recent research shows that preexisting network structure constrains the formation of new interorganizational alliances. Firms that are poorly embedded in a network structure are less likely than richly embedded firms to form alliances, because they lack informational and reputational benefits....

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Managerial foresight and attempted rent appropriation: insider trading on knowledge of imminent breakthroughs

Ahuja, Gautam; Coff, Russell W.; Lee, Peggy M. - 2005

In order to establish a competitive advantage, firms must acquire or create resources at a price below their value in use. Absent pure luck, this requires managers to exercise foresight about a resource's future value and/or complementarities with pre-existing capabilities. This foresight grants...

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What do they know? The effects of outside director acquisition experience on firm acquisition performance

McDonald, Michael L.; Westphal, James D.; Graebner, … - 2008

This article contributes to the literature on board effectiveness by being perhaps the first to systematically examine how the nature of outside directors' prior experience, and resulting expertise, will influence the performance of a focal firm's strategic initiatives. Our theoretical model is...

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Performance effects of imitative entry

Ethiraj, Sendil K.; Zhu, David H. - 2008

This article examines how waiting to imitate a product affects the performance of the imitator compared to the innovator. Specifically, we address two research questions. Under what conditions does imitation erode the advantage of the innovator? What strategies of imitators help overcome the...

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Opportunity costs and non-scale free capabilities: profit maximization, corporate scope, and profit margins

Levinthal, Daniel A.; Wu, Brian - 2010

The resource-based view on firm diversification, subsequent to Penrose ( 1959 ), has focused primarily on the fungibility of resources across domains. We make a clear analytical distinction between scale free capabilities and those that are subject to opportunity costs and must be allocated to...

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Benevolent Flux

Van Dyke, Ben - 2006

A year and a half ago, I found myself in the parking lot of Long John Silver’s with a bucket of chalk.My goal was to re-examine a personal experience through typography. With chalk and a camera,I recorded the event on the impartial pavement of the lot and photographed as a disinterestedworker...

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Allocation of inventive effort in complex product systems

Ethiraj, Sendil K. - 2007

This paper examines the allocation of inventive effort in complex product systems. I argue that complex product systems, e.g., personal computers (PCs), are distinguished by functional interaction among several components, each guided by a relatively autonomous bundle of technical and economic...

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Reputations for toughness in patent enforcement: implications for knowledge spillovers via inventor mobility

Agarwal, Rajshree; Ganco, Martin; Ziedonis, Rosemarie H. - 2009

‘Job hopping’ by engineers and scientists is widely heralded as an important channel for knowledge spillovers within industries. Far less is known, however, about the actions firms take to reduce the outward flow of knowledge through markets for skilled labor. This study investigates the...

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