Firm, industry, and country effects on CO2 emissions levels

New-Firm Survival: Industry versus Firm Effects

Recent studies show that the likelihood of survival differs significantly across firms. Both firm and industry characteristics are hypothesized to account for this heterogenity. Using a longitudinal database of manufacturing firms we investigate whether firm or industry characteristics dominate. Our evidence suggests that both firmand industryspecific characteristics shape new-firm survival dur...

Unpacking Firm Exit at the Firm and Industry Levels: the Adaptation and Selection of Firm Capabilities

Evolutionary theory of business activity studies how firms are selected out of environments that they do not fit, but most existing work under-emphasizes the distinction between acquisition and dissolution as selection processes. We address this gap with a multi-level analysis that investigates how managerial and functional organizational capabilities affect whether struggling firms exit by acq...

The Effects of Economic, Financial and Political Developments on Iran’s CO2 Emissions

This study examines dynamic interrelationships and causality relationships among CO2 emissions, economic, political and financial variables over the period of 1971-2011 for the case of Iran as one of the top CO2 emitting countries in the world. The results of ARDL and Johansen cointegration approaches confirm the existence of long run relationship among CO2 emissions, energy consumption, GDP, f...

Industry and Country Effects on Manager's Perceptions of Environmental Uncertainties

Intra-Industry Effects of Information Security Breaches on Firm Performance

Instances of information security breaches are wide ranging, and can affect companies of different industries and sizes. We investigate the impact of publicly announced information security breaches of public organizations on their competitors that are comparable in size and operate in the same industry. This is called intra-industry information transfer, and has not been subject to extensive r...