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This paper analyses firm formation and innovation in an economy where agents differ with respect to their optimism in the face of ambiguity. Individuals choose between starting a firm or working in one; and also between employing a traditional technology or a new technology about which little is known. In the face of ambiguity, decision-makers are either optimistic or pessimistic. We study the ...
in the economic literature, firm entry and exit are considered as two basic concepts and the time interval between them, known as life duration, is almost a neglected subject in iranian economy. accordingly, this study tries to investigate the life duration of new firms in food and beverage industry as one of the most manufacturing industries in iran during 1996-2005. factors affecting the life...
olive oil is one of the foods that are preferred by consumers seeking healthy nutrition. healthy, safety and high quality olive oil production can only be achieved in olive oil enterprises that follow these criteria. therefore, food safety and quality management systems should be placed in these olive oil enterprises. the aim of this study was to determine behaviors and attitudes of firm owners...
We attempt to gain a better perspective on evolving firm-size in the past twenty years across industries by combining Brynjolfsson, Malone, Gurbaxani, and Kambil (1994, BMGK)’s empirical framework of measuring the effect of coordination cost reduction due to information technology (IT) investment, and Kumar, Rajan, and Zingales (2001)’s synopsis of theories of the firm. We find that although in...
In this empirical study, we investigate the effects of IT investments on firm risk-return profile, emphasizing the complementarities between IT investments and firm boundary strategies; i.e., diversification and vertical integration. Our results are consistent with a strong moderating role of IT in leveraging firm boundary strategies on both the return and risk dimensions of firm financial perf...
We consider a monopolistic firm producing a good while polluting and using a fossil energy. This firm can adopt a clean technology by incurring an investment cost decreasing exponentially with the adoption date. This clean technology does not pollute and has a lower production cost because it uses a renewable energy. We determine the optimal adoption date for the firm in the case where it is no...
A common focus of merger review is horizontal mergers, namely transactions bringing together two firms that compete directly for at least some sales. However, antitrust agencies also consider the potential anticompetitive effects of vertical mergers, namely transactions bringing together one firm that sells an input with a firm that uses the input in manufacturing its product. The firm selling ...
From the real options perspective the firm is conceived as a portfolio of real options. However, the theory of the firm traditionally argues into a similar direction by viewing the firm as either a set of institutions, as set of property rights or as a set of contracts. Due to this similarity, the question arises how far real options analysis can contribute to the theory of the firm and to an u...
Does Manager Turnover Improve Firm Performance? New Evidence Using Information from Dutch Soccer, 1986-2004 This research examines the impact of manager turnover on firm performance using information from the Dutch soccer league in the period 1986-2004. The advantage of using sports data is that both manager characteristics and decisions and firm outcomes are directly observable. Both differenc...
I extended recruitment research by sampling from the applicant population to investigate factors related to a firm’s attractiveness as an employer on college campuses. Specifically, I surveyed potential applicants at nine different universities and university personnel (faculty and placement staff) at eight of those universities to investigate relationships of recruitment activities, organizati...
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