Building on the theory of Burkart et al. (2003) that family ownership and control of firms mitigate the twin conflicts between owners and managers and between majority and minority owners, we suggest that the allocation of firm ownership rights and informal governance within controlling families...

We study how uncompensated research and development (R&D) spillovers - the leakage of proprietary information through imitation or theft - affect firms’ investment decisions. Using variation in property rights protections across different regions within China we find that 1) uncompensated...

Users can develop innovations which will benefit other people and contribute to firm’s innovation capability. However, user innovation often fails to diffuse. In this study, we take the perspective of vocational and retirement studies to analyze whether the older age (60+ years old) of the...

Innovative users can not only generate ideas for new products, but also self-select whether to share their ideas with peers or producers. Different innovative users have different degree of lead userness, and their ideas are usually rooted in tacit need-related knowledge. Because it has been...

Purpose: In heterogeneously segmented markets, collaborating with product users in product innovation is important for business success. End user innovators and embedded user innovators differ in terms of their prior embeddedness in the target industry. The purpose of this study is twofold....

In this paper, a nonlocal Lakshmanan-Porsezian-Daniel equation is investigated with the help of the binary Darboux transformation (DT) method and asymptotic analysis. We derive the formulas of the Nth-order solutions through the binary DT, where N is a positive integer. Under certain conditions,...

Thin iron films evaporated onto Cu(100) were carburized using ethylene to produce iron carbide surfaces for use as model systems in experimental research. XPS and AES confirm that ethylene dissociation produces a pure iron carbide. A maximum of 0.5 ML carbon can be deposited for film thicknesses...

In user innovation theory, a user-founded firm is based on a product that was originally developed by a user for the user’s private need. In this study, we refer to the startup characteristic of user-founded firms as the firms’ user innovation origin. We developed hypotheses to shed some...

We investigate postings on two unique online interactive platforms by investors around earnings announcements of publicly listed firms in China. We find posting volumes on the platforms increase around earnings announcement dates, suggesting that investors acquire firm-specific information via...

While users may be an important source of innovation, and even of entrepreneurship, we know little about the exact psychological mechanism that underpins user innovators’ transition to user entrepreneurship (UE). In this study, we focus on user innovators’ communitarian identity, which is a...