We explore interactions between an organization’s strategic position, economic performance, and vulnerability to ecological pressures. We posit that (1) high profitability buffers an organization from density-driven competitive pressure and (2) this effect is moderated by an organization’s strategic positioning choices. Our empirical tests, relying on longitudinal data from the U.S. for-hire tr...

We analyze the threat of DDoS-for-hire services to low and medium power cloud-based servers or home users. We aim to investigate popularity and availability of such services, their payment models, subscription pricing, complexity of the generated attack traffic and performance.

The American College of Clinical Pharmacy 2013 Educational Affairs Committee was charged with developing recommendations for the minimum qualifications required for clinical pharmacy practice faculty in United States colleges and schools of pharmacy with respect to education, postgraduate training, board certification, and other experiences. From a review of the literature, the committee recomm...

We study an industry dynamics model where access to credit improves the bargaining position of firms with workers and increases the incentive to hire. To evaluate the importance of the bargaining channel for the hiring decisions of firms we estimate the model structurally with simulated methods of moments using data from Compustat and Capital IQ.

Perjanjian sewa beli merupakan kebiasaan dalam praktek yang sudah diakui sah menurut Yurisprudensi. di negara Inggris yaitu diatur dengan Hire Purchase Act 1965 dan bentuk perjanjiannya menganut sistem terbuka. Latar belakang dilakukan masalah kepemilikan kapal tanker atau bare boat hire purchase ini, dimaksudkan agar mempunyai pembayaran pembelian angsuran, sehingga beban biaya dikeluarkan tid...

System dynamics is conspicuous by its absence in the major management education journals. At the same time, there are calls for better handling of complexity and new theory generation; areas where system dynamics can make a major contribution. This paper presents a simulation within a learning environment aimed at reinforcing organizational behavior concepts, especially emphasizing the intercon...

We analyse firms’ incentives to invest in scientific research as we characterize the optimal contracting of scientists intrinsically motivated to produce basic science. In our setting, firms face a large pool of heterogeneous scientists, with different degrees of scientific ability, and each scientist has reservation utility that is non-decreasing with their ability. Once hired scientists can s...