A firm can exhibit many “good” cultural values, for example collaboration, integrity, or ambition. Influential theories of corporate culture claim that firms must choose which cultural values to foster because of inherent trade-offs between them. This paper tests this proposition using a new...

A growing body of literature finds that a healthy corporate culture is associated with superior financial performance. A separate stream of research has found that a firm's adoption of management “best practices” is correlated with higher efficiency and productivity. To date, the cultural...

“Computing performance doubles every couple of years” is the popular re-phrasing of Moore's Law, which describes the 500,000-fold increase in the number of transistors on modern computer chips. But what impact has this 50-year expansion of the technological frontier of computing had on the...

Competition between firms to invent and patent an idea, or “patent racing,” has been much discussed in theory, but seldom analyzed empirically. This article introduces an empirical way to identify patent races, and provides the first broad-based view of them in the real world. It reveals...

In this paper we argue that insights in the actor level of sustainability transitions are a necessary next step in the study of sustainability transitions. The paper outlines a first step towards a more systematic analysis of actor strategies in sustainability transitions by linking strategies...