This paper examines the career moves of executives between two different organizations and looks at the characteristics of executives´ employing organizations as a predictor of the success of the moves. The paper uses a proprietary data set of a retained executive search firm that contains...

The purpose of this paper is to explain product development performance through the link between knowledge management and knowledge integration. When product development teams integrate knowledge about two external entities -customers and suppliers, they acquire a better understanding of the...

All studies that have explored the impact that job-security legislation has had on labor-market performance have been handicapped by the lack of a good quantitative indicator covering a long enough historical period to reflect the drastic changes that have occurred in this area since World War...

This paper studies the conditions that motivate firms to begin exploratory moves that lead to investing in an emerging industry. Using knowledge, institutional and population ecology theories, we capture contributing factors to these exploratory drives. We use a longitudinal census of the US...

(WP 04/03 Clave pdf) Thurstone´s (1927) is not a proper model for multiple judgment paired comparison data as it assigns zero probabilities to all intransitive patterns. To obtain a proper model, Takane (1987) extended Thurstone´s model by adding a vector of pair specific random errors. We...

Product development is a knowledge intensive process. It is widely recognized as a mechanism that produces firms to learn, to enter new technological areas, and to deal more effectively with market uncertainty. Since technology management has become ingrained within the field of knowledge...

(WP03/03 Clave pdf) We consider the estimation of multivariate normal structural models that have been discretized according to a set of thresholds. A popular estimation procedure for this restricted multinomial model consists in the following three stage estimator: First, estimate by maximum...

(WPE 05/03 Clave pdf) La obtención de mejores resultados a partir del conocimiento exige la instauración de unas condiciones de gestión orientadas tanto a la reunión de conocimientos efectivos como a su movilización activa; estos esfuerzos organizados han recibido el nombre de "gestión del...

We study the effects that relative (to a benchmark) performance evaluation has on the provision of incentives for the search of private information when managers are exogenously constrained in their ability to sell short and purchase on margin. With these portfolio constraints we show that...

Using a contingency perspective, this paper examines the conditions under which telecommuting is most likely to be adopted with data obtained from a sample of 122 CEOs. We hypothesized that telecommuting fits better in younger organizations, firms with a higher proportion of women and...