Arora, Ashish; Belenzon, Sharon; Rios, Luis A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We study the relationship between decentralization of R&D, innovation and firm performance using a novel dataset on the organizational structure of 1,290 American publicly-listed corporations, 2,615 of their affiliate firms, as well as characteristics of 594,903 patents that they hold. We...