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Expected Utility Theory
November 25, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper is a modern look at a decision theory and social choice. It emphasizes recent developments that go beyond the classic theory of utility and expected utility. However, a sensible...
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Impossible Selves: Image Strategies And Identity Threat In Professional - Women~s Career Transitions
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper uses the notion of identify threat to explain gender differences in responses to the image and identity gap created by professional's transition into client advisory roles. While both...
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Supplier Networks, The OEM Hub And Sourcing Efficiency
October 28, 2007, 12:00am PDT
in this paper, the authors explore how sourcing costs within a firm's supply chain can be better managed by managing upstream supply network of the .rm. Building on the three-year empirical...
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Emotional Aperture And Strategic Change: The Accurate Recognition Of Collective Emotions
October 11, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces emotional aperture, defined as the ability to recognize the composition of diverse emotions in a collective. The authors introduces that a leader's ability to respond...
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The Liability Of Strangers: Performance Consequences Of Non-Local Partnering
September 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the performance consequences of non-local partnering formation of new ties between organizations that have neither direct nor indirect connections. Although non-local ties...
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How Entrepreneurs Regulate Stakeholders~ Emotions To Build New Organizations
September 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
this study explores how entrepreneurs regulate emotions of their ventures' stake holders, and how much emotions regulation affect the founders' ability to create new organizations. The authors...
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Democracy And Policy Stability
September 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
To explain stable growth performance in democracies the authors characterize political systems in terms of the distribution of political power across groups, and show that in a world where the...
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Component Connectivity, Team Network Structure And The Attention To Technical Interfaces In Complex Product Development
January 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
The development of complex product poses substantial operational and organizational challenges to established firms. Previous research has shown that coordinating technical interdependencies is...
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A Structured Approach To Predicting And Managing Technical Interactions In Software Development
July 9, 2007, 12:00am PDT
One of the most difficult challenges of managing product development is identifying the individuals who need to coordinate closely their interdependencies during the design process. "Who should...
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Limits Of Arbitrage: The State Of The Theory
March 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors of this paper survey theoretical developments in the literature on the limits of arbitrage. This literature investigates how costs faced by arbitrageurs can prevent them from...
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The Market That Never Was: Failed Market Coalitions in Mobile Payment Services
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Given the lack of theoretical background and empirical evidence on the topic, the authors explored the research question with a grounded theory approach in the single case of an emerging market,...
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The Merck Orchestra: Using Mendelssohn To Teach Leadership
October 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A symphony conductor, in many ways, has a great deal of mystique about what they do says Jon Chilingerian, Adjunct Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD. To most audiences the conductor...
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The Upside Of A Down Market
November 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
If there's one good thing about an economic crisis, it's the bargains resulting from the fall-out. Good, that is, if you're in a position to buy. And that was exactly the position in which Banco...
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How Do You Measure Success At The Top?
March 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
Perhaps at no other time in history has CEO compensation come under such scrutiny. What makes these business leaders, who are more often than not men, worth so much money? "The initial idea was to...
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CEO View: Josep Oliu, Banco Sabadell
August 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
From 1976 to 1982 there was a long deep crisis with a lot of consequences to the financial system, Oliu remembers. "This was mixed with the transition to the democratic regime in Spain and the...
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CEO View: Paul Desmarais, Jr. Of Power Corporation Of Canada
September 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In 1925, Power Corporation of Canada pioneered the development of the hydroelectric industry, supplying power to homes and business across the country. But today the company is no longer about...
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Building An Asian Bank
November 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
With most economic indicators and forecasts signaling the Asian century, one regional bank is setting its ambitions high and within the folds of the continent. Singapore-based DBS Bank plans to...
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In Search Of An Effective Innovation Policy
August 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One reason for the tendency of many innovation policy analysts to focus primarily on the big picture, such as the industrial structures of nations, their business cultures, education systems, and...
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Asian Private Equity: Coming Of Age
October 18, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Asian private equity's long-term returns have not been exceptional; while on par with returns in the United States, they are quite a bit behind Western Europe. Ten-year net returns for Asia stand...
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Buybacks Are Back: Strategy Pays Off With Returns Of 103.5 Per Cent In First Year
November 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
The basic strategy is to invest in US companies (1) that announce open market repurchase programmes and (2) that seem to be motivated by an undervalued stock price. Past research has shown that...
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Investing In Unknown Stocks Could Yield Higher Returns
August 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The study found that investors stand to gain comparatively higher returns by punting on stocks that have no media coverage than those that enjoy a high media profile. Indeed, the study's survey of...
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SME Financing: Small Businesses Struggle To Survive The Downturn
December 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
When it comes to securing financial support, entrepreneur Jack Ma, chairman and CEO of China's Alibaba Group, has this advice for small and medium-sized enterprises: don't rely on the government...
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How To Save Banks Without Using Taxpayers' Money
March 4, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the recent financial crisis, taxpayers in many countries had to pick up the bills that resulted from governments bailing out banks. The idea that the government will save you if you make...
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Mergers And Acquisitions: Reducing The Private Firm Discount
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Owners of private companies normally sell their shares at a 20-30 per cent discount during mergers and acquisitions. The 'private firm discount' is one reason the stock market reacts more...
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A 'Naïve Response' To Economic Growth?
January 27, 2010, 12:00am PST
Rees also believes that US, European and Chinese GDP growth is a knee-jerk response to policy stimulus, which again is not a reflection of true economic growth. "The understanding of what is truly...
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Risk Assessment: Keep It Simple
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The ability to assess risk and uncertainty is critical for investment banks and businesses. While some may advocate the use of complex models, INSEAD Dean of Faculty and Professor of Decision...
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Reputational Risk Management: A Key Determinant Of Competitive Performance
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Assessing the damage to reputation takes a lot of data. "First the reputation-sensitive events have to be identified in terms of precisely when they become known to the market," Walter says. "Then...
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IPOs: Evaluating Failure Risk
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
To what extent can one predict whether a new stock exchange listing or initial public offering (IPO) is going to fail? This is a question of major significance for investors and the firm's...
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Intergroup Leadership: A Unifying Force
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
As the name suggests, intergroup leadership involves a fair amount of interaction among team members. On paper, it may look simple enough, but in reality, it's a lot harder to put into practice....
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Self-Managing Teams: Debunking The Leadership Paradox
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Is leadership superfluous in a self-managing team? Aren't self-managing teams supposed to be self-sustaining and self-sufficient? Paul Tesluk, Associate Professor of Management and Organization at...
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Unshackling The 'Double Bind' Of The Female Leader
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Few women have succeeded in shattering the glass ceiling. Even those who have achieved phenomenal success in their respective fields have taken a few hard knocks along the way. One needs to look...
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Reining In The Biggest Game In Town
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
When New York-based private equity firm Blackstone Group netted its co-founders more than US$2.4 billion in its initial public offering in June and then in early July Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co...
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Advice To Direct Marketers: Let The People Do The Talking
August 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The explosion of social networking sites has been a boon for direct marketers. For the hundreds of millions of users of Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and so on, they are fun ways to communicate with...
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India Retail: Foreign Chains Eye The Potential, But Will They Succeed?
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
It's also a market where unorganised retail is the norm - most stores are mom and pop shops and department stores have been few and far between. But that's changing. "If you'd gone to India at the...
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Banyan Tree: The Brand Imperative
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Ho attributes the success of the Banyan Tree Group, as opposed to other Asian brands, to his ability to understand Western consumer markets. The huge consumer markets are going to be Asian. Now...
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More Expensive Medication May Be More Potent
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Marketing variables not only influence people's perceptions and expectations, they actually influence the real efficacy of products such as medications. This is according to Ziv Carmon, INSEAD...
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The Money Illusion
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Consumers are commonly subject to what economists call 'The money illusion', whereby a consumer's perception of the value of money is influenced by the nominal value of the currency. In other...
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Indo-Vation: Tapping The Indian Market
November 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
Innovating for a local market, both with product and pricing, as well as an aggressive marketing strategy, have proved particularly effective, says Dinesh Dayal (MBA '84J), L'Oreal India's chief...
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Adaptability Plays Key Role In Cargill's Business Longevity In China
November 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
When it comes to doing business in China, going big may not always be the right answer. For agribusiness giant Cargill, the company has had to adapt its global business model to China's diverse...
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Playing China's Internet Market
October 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Bring up a social networking service with 500 million members and you'd likely think of the massively popular Facebook. But not so in China where it's all about Qzone, a multimedia social...
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Value Creation And Value Capture With Frictions
June 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors use a formal value-based model to study how frictions in the product market affect value creation and value capture. The authors define frictions as incomplete linkages in the industry...
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The Challenges Of Matching Private Sector Donations To The Humanitarian Needs: The Role Of Brokers
June 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the challenges faced by corporations donating to humanitarian organizations in the aftermath of humanitarian disasters. The findings illustrate the importance of cash...
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Stock Market Comovements And Industrial Structure
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors use monthly stock market indices for 58 countries to construct pairwise correlations of returns and explain these correlations with differences in the industrial structure across these...
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Last Mile Vehicle Supply Chain In The International Federation Of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies
October 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the last mile vehicle supply chain in the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The IFRC is one of the benchmark humanitarian organizations...
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Vehicle Replacement In The International Committee Of The Red Cross
October 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies 4x4 vehicle replacement within the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), one of the largest humanitarian organizations. ICRC policy sets the replacement of vehicles...
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Climate Change And Insurance: Integrative Principles And Regulatory Risks
August 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In medicine, an iatrogenic risk is a risk that arises from the medical treatment itself, such as side effects of surgery or drugs. The same phenomenon arises in the process of regulatory and...
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An Empirical Comparison Of The Efficacy Of Covariance-Based And Variance-Based SEM
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Variance-based SEM, also known under the term partial least squares (PLS) analysis, is an approach that has gained increasing interest among marketing researchers in recent years. During the last...
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Recruiting For Ideas: A Difference-in-Differences Approach For Estimating The Effect Of Mobility On Access To An Inventor~s Prior Knowledge
August 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
When firms recruit inventors, they may acquire not only the use of their skills but also enhanced access to their stock of prior ideas. In this paper, the authors examine the extent to which...
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Do Newly Public Acquirers Benefit Or Suffer From Their Pre-IPO Affiliations With Underwriters And VCs?
September 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine whether pre-IPO affiliations affect post-IPO corporate events, namely acquisitions. On the one hand, newly public acquirers may benefit from their pre-IPO affiliations through...
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Lone Inventors As Source Of Breakthroughs: Myth Or Reality?
June 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has...
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The Spirits Of Capitalism: German, Japanese, And US Senior Executive Perceptions Of Why Firms Exist
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors present ethnographic evidence those senior executives of major firms in the three leading advanced industrialized economies - those of Germany, Japan, and the United States - hold very...
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A Decision Framework For The Access Strategy Of Medicines For Malaria Venture
August 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Many new Product Development Partnerships (PDPs) have recently been formed with the sole objective of developing drugs for neglected diseases with a high prevalence in the developing world. A...
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Welcome, ?Stateholder?
November 18, 2009, 12:00am PST
Since 2008, the world's governments have injected an unprecedented amount of capital into what used to be known as the private economy. The United States and United Kingdom have led the way, but...
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Idea Generation And The Quality Of The Best Idea
December 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
In a wide variety of settings, organizations generate a number of possible solutions to a problem - ideas - and then select a few for further development. The authors examine the effectiveness of...
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The Price Of Consumer Regret
August 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the effect of anticipated regret on consumer decisions, firm profits and policies, in an advance selling context where buyers have uncertain valuations. Advance purchases trigger...
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Corporate Social Responsibility And Latin American Multinationals: Is Poverty A Business Issue?
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper looks at corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices of multinationals from Latin America. In spite of the economic growth in recent years, social problems in the region persist....
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Portfolio Risk Management And Carbon Emissions Valuation In Electric Power
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The energy business is in transition from a cost structure based on fuel and capital to a business that also accounts for the carbon footprint of energy production, transmission and end use. In...
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Interdependency Of Science And Risk Finance In Catastrophe Insurance And Climate Change
January 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper describes the interdependencies of science and risk finance for catastrophe insurance. While the basic arguments here apply to all catastrophe risks, including seismic and terrorism...
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Patent Citations And The Geography Of Knowledge Spillovers: Disentangling The Role Of State Borders, Metropolitan Boundaries And Distance
January 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors employ a regression framework based on choice-based sampling to estimate the probability of knowledge flow, measured using patent citations. This serves to extend research on the...
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Seasons Of A Leader~s Development: Beyond A One-Size Fits All Approach To Designing Interventions
March 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a typology of leadership development methods. The authors argue that different methods are suited to the learning needs of different leaders, which the authors...
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Risk Management For Energy Efficiency Projects In Developing Countries
March 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The present paper addresses risk management fundamentals for energy efficiency (EE) projects in developing countries. Four problems are often identified as the culprits for failing to harvest such...
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Sound Long-Term Strategy Is Key, Particularly In A Crisis: Harvard's Michael Porter
August 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With the current global economic downturn, there's been plenty of talk of doom and gloom. But Professor Michael Porter of Harvard University, a leading authority on competitive strategy, begs to...
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Disruptive News Technologies: Stakeholder Media And The Future Of Watchdog Journalism Business Models
March 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The decline of the news industry is rooted in a vicious circle of financial leveraging leading to capacity cuts, and then to declines in quality of content, credibility, audiences and revenue...
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Tackling The Financial Crisis By Changing Tack
September 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
China, one of Asia's economic powerhouses, is not immune to the global financial crisis despite enjoying double-digit growth in the last five years and being poised to achieve nine per cent growth...
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Marketing~s Consequences: Stakeholder Marketing And Supply Chain CSR Issues
March 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
While considerable attention has been given to the harm done to consumers by marketing, less attention has been given to the harm done by consumers as an indirect effect of marketing activities,...
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Can China Help Power The Global Economy Out Of A Crisis?
August 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
After five years of double-digit expansion, the world's fastest-growing economy has succumbed to the economic chill wind sweeping across the globe. China's economy slowed to an annual growth clip...
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Rethinking Global Financial Systems
August 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The consensus is loud and clear: in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression, a fundamental rethink of the structure of the global financial markets and greater...
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Recruiting For Ideas: How Firms Exploit The Prior Inventions Of New Hires
March 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
When firms recruit inventors, they acquire not only the use of their skills but also enhanced access to their stock of ideas. But do hiring firms actually increase their use of the new recruits'...
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Australian Banks Well Positioned To Weather The Financial Crisis
August 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In comparison to the battered banks elsewhere, Australia's 'big four' banks have been "holding up very well" relative to their counterparts in the US and Europe, which have either filed for...
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A Model Of Financial Market Liquidity Based On Intermediary Capital
December 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
The author present a model of financial market liquidity provided by financially constrained intermediaries. The author shows that market liquidity increases with the level of intermediary...
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Global Crisis Forces Corporations To Look Beyond Quarterly Earnings
August 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With the US economy in turmoil, Wal-Mart, the nation's leading retailer boasting more than 144 million customers per week, is taking on a new leadership role. In a country where about one person...
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Governments Have Not Done Enough To Address Crisis
October 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Governments around the world have not done enough to address the damaging effects of the global financial crisis triggered by the one-year old subprime credit crisis in the United States,...
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Role Of Resource Gap And Value Appropriation: Effect Of Reputation Gap On Price Premium In Online Auctions
April 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this study the author draw on the resource-based view of the firm and on value-added methodology to examine when firms appropriate value from their superior resources. The author argue for the...
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World Bank To Double Lending To Emerging Economies In Wake Of Crisis
October 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The World Bank is aiming to double its lending to emerging economies that are most vulnerable from the fallout of the global financial crisis, World Bank president Robert Zoellick said at a recent...
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The Missing Link: The Effect Of Customers On The Formation Of Relationships Among Producers In The Multiplex Triads
April 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper develops a concept of a "multiplex triad" i.e. triplet comprised of actors playing different roles and interconnected by different kinds of relationships. An example of such triad is a...
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Blueprint For A New International Financial Order
September 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Politicians have acted decisively to restore confidence and liquidity in the banking sector through the injection of capital and guarantees on interbank loans. The UK, continental EU countries,...
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Multivariate Concave And Convex Stochastic Dominance
April 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Stochastic dominance permits a partial ordering of alternatives (probability distributions on consequences) based only on partial information about a decision maker's utility function. Univariate...
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Pricing Guidelines For Firms During A Crisis
September 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In their paper, When to Push the Panic Button?, INSEAD professors 'Paddy' V. Padmanabhan and Pushan Dutt show that consumers engage in consumption smoothing both across and within product...
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Innovation, Diffusion, And Trade: Theory And Measurement
July 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Growth and imports are correlated across countries. However, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. The author develops a general equilibrium model in which imports and growth are...
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Online Social Networking And The Economic Crisis
August 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the fallout of the global financial meltdown, it's difficult to think of a positive side to the economic crisis. But it actually might be good news for Web 2.0 social networking. It would...
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