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The role of the board in firm strategy: Integrating agency and organisational control perspectives

Hendry, Kevin; Kiel, Geoffrey C. - 2004

The role of the board of directors in firm strategy has long been the subject of debate. However, research efforts have suffered from several deficiencies: the lack of an overarching theoretical perspective, reliance on proxies for the strategy role rather than a direct measure of it and the...

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Unternehmerisches Handeln - Thema und Variationen : Präliminarien und materiale Skizze

Loer, Thomas - 2010

Im unternehmerischen Handeln kommen Momente von Handeln überhaupt in gesteigerter Weise zum Ausdruck: Entscheidung und …, Krise, Personalität, Innovation, Gestaltwahrnehmung - erweist sich der Unternehmer als ein Virtuose autonomer riskanter … Entscheidung für neue Wege. Exemplarische Skizze anhand verschiedener Unternehmerpersönlichkeiten. …

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Zum Unternehmerhabitus. Eine kultursoziologische Bestimmung im Hinblick auf Schumpeter

Loer, Thomas - 2006

exemplarisch für Handeln überhaupt stehen kann, verbindet es doch Freimut zu riskanter Entscheidung mit dem Anspruch auf rationale … Verlässlichkeit: Der Unternehmer kann ebenso wenig umhin, Neuerungen zu suchen und zu fördern wie er dabei auf berechnende …

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Revenue Sharing and Control Rights in Team Production: Theories and Evidence from Joint Ventures.*

Bai, Chong-En; Tao, Zhigang; Wu, Changqi - 2003

This paper presents a model of the joint venture that is grounded in the stylized facts we found from a sample of 200 joint venture contracts. The model incorporates the revenue-sharing contract into the incomplete contract frameworks of Grossman-Hart-Moore Property Rights Theory and the...

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Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?

Kim, E. Han - 2006

We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect...

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Coordination Costs, Organization Structure and Firm Growth.

Zhou, Yue Maggie - 2008

This dissertation views firms as systems of interdependent activities and investigates the role of coordination costs in setting limits to firms’ growth strategies and organization structure. It contains three interrelated studies. Study I examines the impact of coordination costs on firms’...

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Contracts and Technology Adoption

Acemoglu, Daron; Antras, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - 2007

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One Player Games versus Two Player Games: Comparing Agribusiness Cooperatives with Investor-Owned Business Models

Parker, Frederick - 2011

Cooperative business firms are prevalent in agribusiness, yet no concise generalizedmodel exists to demonstrate how and why cooperative firms differ from, and may beselected over, the more common investor owned business firm. It is shown within ageneric transaction game that cooperatives fill...

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The hierarchical structure of the firm: A geometric perspective

Tang, Kam Ki; Yanes, Leopoldo - 2009

This paper incorporates hierarchical structure into the neoclassical theory of the firm. Firms are hierarchical in two respects: the organization of workers in production and the wage structure. The firm's hierarchy is represented as a sector of a circle, where the radius represents the...

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The Hierarchical Structure of the Firm: A Geometric Perspective

Yanes, L. J.; Tang, K.K. - 2006

This paper incorporates hierarchical structure into the neoclassical theory of the firm. Firms are hierarchical in two respects: the organization of workers in production and the wage structure. The firm’s hierarchy is represented as the sector of a circle, where the radius represents the...

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