Showing 181 - 190 of 391
The "social kill" (Fligstein, 1997 and 2001) attributed to social entrepreneurs is ont sufficiently explicit as regards their dispositions for engaging in actions of change. After placing the status of change in the context of institutionalist literature, the author intend to show how, with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011551
This article investigates the determinants of boards’ financial expertise using a sample of 95 non-financial French listed firms.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011552
This paper focuses on the link between the three types of specificity and the complexity of outsourcing contracts because specificity is generally considered as the most important transaction cost attribute. It also integrates external uncertainty in the model. External uncertainty is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011553
We consider weak preference orderings over a set An of n alternatives. An individual preference is of refinement ln if it first partitions An into l subsets of tied alternatives, and then ranks these subsets within a linear ordering. When l n, preferences are coarse. It is shown that, if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011554
We consider information sharing between traders("floor brokers") who possess different types of information, namely information on the payoff of a risky security or information on the volume of liquidity trading in this security. We interpret these traders as dual -capacity brokers on the floor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011555
This paper elicits an additively separable representation of preferences in the Savage framework (where the objects of choice are acts: measurable functions from an infinite set of states to a potentially finite set of consequences). A preference relation over acts is represented by the integral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011556
The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of R&D expenditures on company performance. R&D activities play an essential role in the future economic development and financial performance of firms. However, with the exception of some American studies, the economic effectiveness of such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011557
We analyze the effect of concealing limit order traders’ identities on market liquidity. We develop a model in which limit order traders have asymmetric information on the cost of limit order trading (which is determined by the exposure to informed trading). A thin limit order book signals to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011558
From an inquiry about three fundamental modes of knowing, we propose an interpretation of rationality as "trilogical". We come out, from that point, to the hypothesis of a trilogy of value. This hypothesis, as articulating objectal values, relational values, and political values, offers new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011559
This study examines how cultural performance orientation moderates the influence of human resource management (HRM) controls on boundary-spanning employees’ behavioural strategies and satisfaction.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011560