Chapter 1: The Unpredictable Environment and Role of Innovation -- Chapter 2: The Entrepreneurs, the Innovation Process and the Management of Uncertainty -- Chapter 3: The Necessity and the Drawbacks of Product and Process Innovation -- Chapter 4: A Review of Excessive Development Studies on the...

We study the diffusion of techniques designed to identify causal relationships in corporate finance research. We estimate the diffusion started in the mid-nineties, lags twenty years compared to economics, and is now used in the majority of corporate finance articles. Consistent with recent...