Search Results - "Managerial and Decision Economics"

Building micro-foundations for the routines, capabilities, and performance links by Abell, Peter, Felin, Teppo, Foss, Nicolai

“…Micro-foundations have become an important emerging theme in strategic management. This paper addresses micro-foundations in two related ways. First, we argue…”
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The cost of biopharmaceutical R&D: is biotech different? by DiMasi, Joseph A., Grabowski, Henry G.

“…The costs of developing the types of new drugs that have been pursued by traditional pharmaceutical firms have been estimated in a number of studies. However,…”
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Does familiarity breed trust? Revisiting the antecedents of trust by Gulati, Ranjay, Sytch, Maxim

“…This paper investigates how the history of interaction between organizations and between organizational boundary spanners contributes to the formation of trust…”
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Unraveling the resource-based tangle by Peteraf, Margaret A., Barney, Jay B.

“…Resource-based theory (RBT) is a prime example of a theory that integrates a management perspective with an economics perspective. As such, its challenge is to…”
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Trust and formal contracts in interorganizational relationships - substitutes and complements by Mellewigt, Thomas, Madhok, Anoop, Weibel, Antoinette

“…We hypothesize that trust is a moderator of the direct relationship between control and coordination concerns and contractual complexity. Our results suggest…”
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Absorptive capacity-one size fits all? A firm-level analysis of absorptive capacity for different kinds of knowledge by Schmidt, Tobias

“…This paper empirically analyzes the effect of R&D activities, human resource and knowledge management, and the organization of knowledge sharing within a firm…”
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Mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries by Danzon, Patricia M., Epstein, Andrew, Nicholson, Sean

“…We examine the determinants and effects of M&A activity in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry using SDC data on 383 firms from 1988 to 2001. For large…”
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Comparing German and Italian public universities: Convergence or divergence in the higher education landscape? by Agasisti, Tommaso, Pohl, Carsten

“…In this paper, we examine and compare the efficiency of Italian and German public universities and its evolution in the period 2001-2007. This topic is…”
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Corporate governance and firm efficiency: evidence from China's publicly listed firms by Lin, Chen, Ma, Yue, Su, Dongwei

“…This paper applies a two-stage, double bootstrapping data envelope analysis approach to investigate whether and to what extent various distinctive corporate…”
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Customer preference discontinuities: a trigger for radical technological change by Tripsas, Mary

“…What factors cause a mature industry to re-enter a period of technological turbulence? This paper addresses this question by developing a model of…”
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Corporate cash holdings and dividend payments: evidence from simultaneous analysis by Al-Najjar, Basil, Belghitar, Yacine

“…This study explores the simultaneous relationship between corporate cash holdings and dividend policy using a large sample of around 400 non-financial firms…”
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Splitting the pie: rent distribution in alliances and networks by Dyer, Jeffrey H., Singh, Harbir, Kale, Prashant

“…This paper addresses the issue of how relational rents, generated through alliances, are distributed to the participating firms. We argue that rent…”
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Stadium attendance and television audience demand in English league football by Buraimo, Babatunde

“…Demand studies of professional team sports have traditionally focused on stadium attendance; however, advances in broadcasting mean that teams generate revenue…”
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The impact of managerial quality on organizational performance: evidence from German soccer by Frick, Bernd, Simmons, Robert

“…In this paper we use a novel panel data set from the German premier soccer league (Bundesliga) as a case to show how variations in managerial compensation…”
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Cognitive adaptations for n-person exchange: the evolutionary roots of organizational behavior by Tooby, John, Cosmides, Leda, Price, Michael E.

“…Organizations are composed of stable, predominantly cooperative interactions or n-person exchanges. Humans have been engaging in n-person exchanges for a great…”
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Generic competition and market exclusivity periods in pharmaceuticals by Grabowski, Henry G., Kyle, Margaret

“…In this paper we examine generic competition and market exclusivity periods for pharmaceuticals experiencing their initial generic entry between 1995 and 2005…”
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Property rights theory, transaction costs theory, and agency theory: an organizational economics approach to strategic management by Kim, Jongwook, Mahoney, Joseph T.

“…Property rights theory has common antecedents with contractual theories of the firm such as transaction costs and agency theories, and is yet distinct from…”
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Position, leverage and opportunity: a typology of strategic logics linking resources with competitive advantage by Bingham, Christopher B., Eisenhardt, Kathleen M.

“…The resource-based view's (RBVs) contribution toward understanding competitive advantage remains unfulfilled. A reason is the confounding of the concept of…”
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On the impact of managerial bonus systems on firm profit and market competition: the cases of pure profit, sales, market share and relative profits compared by Jansen, Thijs, van Lier, Arie, van Witteloostuijn, Arjen

“…By designing remuneration schemes based on a bonus rewarding specific firm-level outcomes, the owners/shareholders of a firm can manipulate the behavior of…”
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Entrepreneurial signaling to attract resources: the case of franchising by Michael, Steven C.

“…Why firms and individuals reveal information is the subject of considerable theoretical research, but little empirical work has been possible due to a lack of…”
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