The correlation between wage premia and concentrations of firm activity may arise due to agglomeration economies or … density of workers. These agglomeration effects are robust to the inclusion of residential location controls and disappear …

two questions from the decision making literature. First, what determines how much uncertainty a firm has when investing … data, support was found for the Bounded Rationality hypothesis; firms have less uncertainty about an acquisition … hypothesis; firms whose prior machines perform below aspiration levels seek more uncertainty in their subsequent acquisitions …

. Facing uncertainty about customer types, the firm can gradually learn using observed service costs realized from recent …

degree of task uncertainty during inter-firm product development. Using successfully applied patents in automobile emission … knowledge base in component and architectural knowledge increased under higher task uncertainty respectively. This finding …

face uncertainty about output price and quantity. Using our estimation results we simulate the effects on cotton production …

is tested by measuring two important sources of uncertainty in the external environment: uncertainty regarding the level … and composition of demand (market uncertainty) and uncertainty regarding the intentions and actions of competitors … (competitive uncertainty). I develop the theoretical foundation for expecting that patterns of real options behavior vary with …

This dissertation addresses the crucial problem of how environmental policy uncertainty influences investments in … by considering the impact of uncertainty in the carbon tax on investments in a portfolio of technologies. We determine … to consider how uncertainty in the magnitude and timing of a carbon tax influences investments. Under a two …

How firms facing environmental uncertainty should organize their activities remains an important and challenging … must adjust their activities to fit the level of environmental uncertainty to ensure long-term survival. Although much work … has been done on contingency theory, it is clear that our understanding of uncertainty is far from complete. One important …