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Built to Last, Flip or Profit? Exploration-Exploitation and the Survival, Acquisition, and Profitability of Start-ups
Keyhani, Mohammad; Deutsch, Yuval; Madhok, Anoop; … - 2021
-exploitation continuum and profitability, survival and acquisition likelihood simultaneously, and investigate potential trade-offs between … exploration for the acquisition likelihood and survival likelihood of high-tech start-ups, and for the profitability of low and … medium tech start-ups, but the relationship is linearly negative for the profitability of high-tech start-ups and the …
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Profits, R&D and innovation : a model and a test
Bogliacino, Francesco; Pianta, Mario - 2010
demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980588
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Competence Resource Specialization, Causal Ambiguity, and the Creation and Decay of Competitiveness : The Role of Marketing Strategy in New Product Performance and Shareholder Valu...
Hansen, Jared M.; McDonald, Bob; Mitchell, Ronald K. - 2012
Marketing strategists should create, maintain, and arrest the decay of causally ambiguous resource competences that lead to competitiveness and thus performance. However, competence causal ambiguity, which helps create competitiveness, is also implicated in competitiveness decay. In this study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014039997
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Processes of Firm Growth and Diversification : Theory and Evidence
Coad, Alex - 2013
In this short research note we investigate the role of diversification in the firm growth process. We build on Penrose's (1959) Theory of the Growth of the Firm to formulate hypotheses about growth of employment, assets, and sales in the years before, during and after a new product introduction....
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Who do unions target? : unionization over the life-cycle of US businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402128
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What Businesses Attract Unions? Unionization over the Life‐Cycle of U.S. Establishments
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2016
What type of businesses attract unions? A theory of union learning and organizing is developed to provide an answer to this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize. An establishment becomes unionized if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006702
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047857
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing and when? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides which ones to organize and when. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057220
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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850304
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Industry Networks and the Geography of Firm Behavior
Grieser, William - 2020
We consider the role of local geographic peers in determining equilibrium firm behavior. We exploit in-transitivity in local peer-firm networks and utilize spatial econometric techniques to circumvent well-known challenges in estimating and interpreting empirical models of peer effects. We find...
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