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Competing with superstars
Ammann, Manuel; Horsch, Philipp; Oesch, David - 2015
This paper investigates the effect of superstar CEOs on their competitors. Exploiting shocks to CEO status due to …
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CEOs' uncommon names and corporate innovation
Gu, Yuqi - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-28
I study the relationship between a Chief Executive Officer (CEO)'s uncommon name and corporate innovation. Consistent … between CEO name uncommonness and corporate innovation quantity but not quality. To mitigate endogeneity concerns, I use the … death of the CEO as a plausible exogenous shock and find results are robust in the difference-in-differences setting. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500383
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Prior knowledge and entrepreneurial innovative success
Cantner, Uwe; Goethner, Maximilian; Meder, Andreas - 2007
This paper is concerned with the relationship between innovative success of entrepreneurs and their prior knowledge at the stage of firm formation. We distinguish between different kinds of experience an entrepreneur can possess and find evidence that the innovative success subsequent to firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263810
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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2007
The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of many techno organisational innovation and networking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312284
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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of many techno organisational innovation and networking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230829
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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking - Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2015
The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of many techno organisational innovation and networking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050846
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Firm boundaries matter: Evidence from conglomerates and R&D activity
Seru, Amit - In: Journal of Financial Economics 111 (2014) 2, pp. 381-405
This paper examines the impact of the conglomerate form on the scale and novelty of corporate Research and Development (R&D) activity. I exploit a quasi-experiment involving failed mergers to generate exogenous variation in acquisition outcomes of target firms. A difference-in-differences...
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Outside directors on the board, competition and innovation
Buchwald, Achim; Thorwarth, Susanne - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2015
We investigate the influence of non-executive outside directors on firms' innovative performance for a sample of 1,393 listed firms in the EU - 15 member states plus Norway and Switzerland in the period 2005 to 2010. Our results show that the fraction of non-executive outside directors on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168714
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Outside directors on the board and innovative firm performance
Balsmeier, Benjamin; Buchwald, Achim; Stiebale, Joel - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 10, pp. 1800-1815
We investigate how outside directors on supervisory boards influence innovative activities of the firms they advise and monitor. Based on panel data on the largest German companies, the econometric analysis shows a positive influence of external executives on innovative firm performance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939619
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Data Markets in Making: The Role of Technology Giants
Koski, Heli; Pantzar, Mika - 2019
This paper focuses on the role of large technology companies' entry and expansion to the data-intensive market areas via their technological development and strategic acquisitions of companies. We analyze the evolvement of personal data related innovation in various data-intensive domains. We...
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