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Analyzing Pricing Strategies for Online-Services with Network Effect
(2011-03)
In this study, we model firms that sell a product and a complementary online service, where only the latter displays positive network effects. That is, the value each consumer derives from the service increases with the ...
Using the Resource-Based Theory to Determine Covenant Not to Compete Legitimacy
(2012-05)
This paper addresses the legitimacy of competing interests involved in the enforcement of covenants not to compete (“noncompetes”). To date, the courts and legislatures have not relied on a principled theoretical framework ...
Business Decisions and the Environment: Significance, Challenges, and Momentum of an Emerging Research Field
(2004)
Over the past four decades, the concept of corporate environmentalism was born and redefined through multiple iterations. Concurrent with this evolution in corporate practice has been the emergence of academic research ...
Bargaining Power and Supply Base Diversification
(2009-12)
We examine a supply base diversification problem faced by a buyer who periodically holds auctions to award short term supply contracts among a cohort of suppliers (i.e., the supply base). To mitigate significant cost shocks ...
Momentum and House Price Growth In the U.S.: Anatomy Of a "Bubble"
(2009-01)
This paper analyzes the bubble in property values in the U.S. in the period from 1999 through 2005. We define a bubble as a regime shift characterized by a change in the properties of house price deviations from underlying ...