Title of Dissertation: INFORMATION EXCHANGE IN THE MARKETPLACE: TWO ESSAYS ON FIRM STRATEGIES AND STAKEHOLDER PERCEPTIONS Michael Donald Pfarrer, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Violina P. Rindova Department of Management & Organization This dissertation consists of two essays that examine the role of information exchange in the marketplace and how firm strategies...

Corporate Governance deals with the issue, how suppliers of finance to corporations assure themselves of getting a return on their investment. Several Studies have examined the relationship between managerial ownership and firm performance. Using different samples most of the studies provide general support for the argument that increase in managerial ownership increases firm performance. Howev...

This paper develops an exchange-network perspective on corporate diversification and proposes two measures of corporate scope: structural closure and structural exposure. Structural closure focuses on exchanges of goods and services inside the firm and proxies for the potential costs of undertaking them through the market instead. By considering exchange relations inside the firm, this measure ...

This paper is essentially a specification on analytical framework of a PhD thesis. The thesis itself is entitled: “Intellectual capital and economic performance of firms in the knowledge-based economy: a close look at evolution of modern enterprises” and is a study that seeks to understand the nature and function of the business firm as it is evolving with the changing today economy. The first ...

in this research, a new method for market-product strategic planning is presented. in this method, an expert system is designed on the basis of identifying important factors that are effective in a firm and analyzing the logical relations between them. the objective is to develop a decision support system (dss) for helping managers to make strategic decisions. dds can serve as suitable replacem...

As emerging digital technologies and capabilities continue to dominate our economic landscape, organizations are facing increased scrutiny on how digital transformation can provide the mechanism for innovation and firm performance. Using resource-based view (RBV) framework, this research examines the mediating effects of digital transformation in the relationship between IT capability and firm ...

Submitted by drupal on Thu, 10/23/2014 13:43 Firm: IAVO Research and Scientific [2] Award Solicitation: NASA SBIR 2012 Phase II Solicitation [3] Award ID: SBIR_12_P2_125267 Award Topic: Fault Management Technologies [4] Award Dollars: 749 667.00 Award Lead Center: Marshall Space Flight Center [5] Proposal Number: S5.05-8733 Proposal Title: A Real-Time Fault Management Software System for Distri...

When a firm implements analytical CRM, the value of a customer is assessed by profitability analysis. In a sense, a firm retains profitable customers but “fires” unprofitable ones. In this paper, we show that this typical customer selection strategy is not appropriate for a firm of goods and services that exhibit network externalities because of the strategic network value of unprofitable custo...

Submitted by drupal on Thu, 10/23/2014 13:51 Firm: Crystal Research, Inc. [2] Award Solicitation: NASA SBIR 2014 Phase I Solicitation [3] Award ID: SBIR_14_P1_144558 Award Topic: In Situ Sensors and Sensor Systems for Lunar and Planetary Science [4] Award Dollars: 123 861.00 Award Lead Center: Ames Research Center [5] Proposal Number: S1.06-9443 Proposal Title: A Pulsed Nonlinear Raman Detectio...

This paper investigates the relationship between firm value and board composition with consideration of the effects of D&O insurance: monitoring incentive and moral hazard. Based on three measurements of firm value, we find that (1) D&O insurance provides monitoring incentive for the board; (2) firm value is significantly related to board composition and D&O insurance; and (3) the function of D...