This paper aims to understand the pathways by which exporters become entities that sell multiple goods to multiple customers. To understand firms’ export strategies, we analyse new trade flows – new seller-buyer-product combinations – of individual exporters. Our first finding highlights...

Standard methods for estimating production functions in the Olley and Pakes (1996) tradition require assumptions on input choices. We introduce a new method that exploits (increasingly available) data on a firm's expectations of its future output and inputs that allows us to obtain consistent...

When AI prediction substantially resolves trial uncertainty, a party purchasing AI prediction will disclose it if it is in their favour and not otherwise, signalling the outcome to the other party. Thus, the trial outcome becomes common knowledge. However, this implies that the parties will...

This paper examines and finds that the answer is likely to be no. The environment examined starts with users who contribute based on their motives to create a public good. Their own actions determine the quality of that public good but also embed a free-rider problem. When AI is trained on that...

This paper examines whether CEOs with shorter initial contract lengths suffer from greater pressure and consequently engage in more visible efforts via mergers and acquisitions (M&As). By using CEO initial fixed-term contracts and exploiting U.K. corporate governance reform as an exogenous...

This paper examines executive and nonexecutive performance-vested (p-v) restricted stock grants and the extent to which setting an attainable goal affects corporate innovation. Using a Monte-Carlo simulation framework and exploiting an exogenous variation in Offshore Service Outsourcing (OSO)...

This paper examines to what extent the equity incentives awarded to a specific group of nonexecutive employees (core technical employees and middle-level managers) are related to subsequent corporate innovation and firm specificity. We exploit a unique dataset to directly capture core staff...

Despite the increased focus on business model innovation in recent years, there are still major gaps in existing literature about the causes of innovation. Therefore, this study examines various factors impacting business model innovation. Researchers have highlighted that entrepreneurial...

Different supervision methods usually lead to internal organizational conflicts, especially in a multi-unit organization, such as The Iraqi Ministry of Interior (IMI). In this regard, Successful organizational conflict management (OCM) is fundamentally associated with Strategic Clarity (SC) in...