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Ties that Blind? How Strong Ties Affect Small Business Owner-Managers' Perceived Trustworthiness of Their Advisors

Kautonen, Teemu - 2011

professional or informal advisor affects the relationship between the advisor's recent performance and the owner … in light of their recent performance, because of the existing personal relationship. A conceptual model is constructed … owner-manager's perception of the advisor's integrity, disregarding their recent performance. For professional advisors …

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The Theory of the Managed Firm (TMF) : Revision of the Note Written for the Seminar at Lund University’s School of Economics and Management

Spender, J.-C. - 2014

Social scientists in general, and BSchool faculty in particular, are in sore need of a theory of the private sector firm that relates managers' activity to the creation of economic value. Rational-man based theorizing admits only managers' computable inputs so it cannot address value creation....

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Knowledge Flows Percolation Model – A New Model for the Relation Between Knowledge and Innovation

Popescul, Daniela - 2013

The present paper proposes a new way of thinking regarding the relation between innovation and knowledge using a Physics-borrowed model, trying to prove whether knowledge resources can "flow" (be percolated) in a network or a grid, in order to be transformed in technological innovation. In the...

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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants : A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...

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Antecedents of Management Control Combinations – An Explanation from Resource Dependence Theory

Brettel, Malte - 2013

We empirically validate a model primarily based on Resource Dependence Theory. Our model links task characteristics and various subordinate characteristics that represent sources of managerial dependence to the adoption of the four archetypical combinations of formal and informal control...

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Board Members’ Contribution to Strategic Decision-Making in Small Firms

Pugliese, Amedeo - 2009

This article explores how the boards of small firms actually undertake to perform strategic tasks. Board strategic involvement has seldom been investigated in the context of small firms. We seek to make a contribution by investigating antecedents of board strategic involvement. The antecedents...

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Gender Pay Differences in the European Union : Do Higher Wages Make Up for Discrimination?

Canton, Eric - 2010

This paper explores the role of social interactions at the work floor for understanding gender pay differences in the EU. Using data from the Fourth European Working Conditions Survey, we find that sex similarity of subordinate and supervisor decreases the pay disadvantage for women in...

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CEO Emotions and Underpricing in Initial Coin Offerings

Momtaz, Paul P. - 2020

CEO emotions are difficult to measure and hence empirically understudied. However, using artificial emotional intelligence, positive and negative affects can be identified from facial muscle contraction-relaxation patterns obtained from public CEO photos during initial coin offerings (ICOs),...

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The Effect of Human Resource Practice, Perceived Organizational Support and Work-Life Balance in Enhancing Employee's Affective Commitment

Luturlean, Bachruddin Saleh - 2020

Objective - Employees' perception of HR practice is crucial because it can affect individual and organizational outcomes. HR practices may influence the perception employees have of the support that is available to them from the organization, the work-life balance, and the organization's...

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Corporate Venturing, Allocation of Talent, and Competition for Star Managers

de Bettignies, Jean-Etienne - 2008

We provide new rationales for corporate venturing (CV), based on competition for talented managers. As returns to venturing increase, firms engage in CV for reasons other than capturing these returns. First, higher venturing returns increase managerial compensation, to which firms respond by...

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