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The Impact of Discussion, Awareness, and Collaboration Network Position on Research Performance of Engineering School Faculty
(2010-12)
We use a social network analysis to examine the role of various types of interactions among the faculty of an American engineering school, ranging from mere awareness to full coauthorship, on academic research productivity ...
Better Vision for the Poor
(2010-03)
About 500 million to 1 billion poor people in the world need eyeglasses but do not get them. Visual impairment is more than just a health problem; it has economic, educational, and public safety implications. In 2005, the ...
Dubious Value of International Acquisitions by Emerging Economy Firms: The Case of Indian Firms
(2010-04)
This article addresses the question whether companies from emerging economies create shareholder value through foreign acquisitions. The popular business press usually views these foreign acquisitions very positively. The ...
Social Entrepreneurship: Beyond the Hype
(2010-02)
While social entrepreneurship has been attracting increasing attention, it is not clear what it really is. I argue that the term ‘social entrepreneurship’ is too ambiguous to be useful. It is more appropriate to characterize ...
Doing Well by Doing Good: The Grand Illusion
(2010-10)
The idea that companies can 'do well by doing good' has caught the attention of executives, business academics, and public officials. Firms have a corporate social responsibility to achieve some larger social goals, and ...
The Dynamics of Cash
(2010-05)
Little is known about how firms manage cash policy over time. This paper fills this gap by examining if and how firms manage cash toward a target cash ratio. Estimating partial adjustment models of cash, we find that firms ...
Does Capital Market Myopia Affect Plant Productivity? Evidence from Going Private Transactions
(2010-12)
One influential criticism of the stock market oriented U.S. financial system is that its excessive focus on short term quarterly earnings forces public firms to behave in a myopic manner. We hypothesize that if capital ...
Integrated Optimization of Procurement, Processing and Trade of Commodities in a Network Environment
(2010-04)
We consider the integrated optimization problem of procurement, processing and trade of commodities over a network in a multiperiod setting. Motivated by the operations of a prominent commodity processing firm, we model a ...
Hybrid Organizations as Agents of Positive Social Change: Bridging the For-profit & Non-profit Divide
(2010-10)
This chapter explores the distinctive characteristics of hybrid organizations; a new organizational form that expands our existing categories of organizations by bridging the for-profit and non-profit domains. In particular, ...
Reconciling Professional and Personal Value Systems: The Spiritually Motivated Manager as Organizational Entrepreneur
(2010-02)
Today, many people hold a personal set of moral beliefs about the proper role of the corporation in regard to the natural environment. These beliefs are held at the level of the individual and are formed through personal ...