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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 ...
Talking Past Each Other? Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate
(2011-02)
This paper analyzes the extent to which two institutional logics around climate change - the climate change "convinced" and climate change "skeptical" logics - are truly competing or talking past each other in a way that ...
Human Rights and a Corporation's Duty to Combat Corruption
(2013-10)
Increasingly, there is awareness that corruption and human rights are intimately connected. However, the debates and reform proposals on improving corporations’ social performance in these two areas are often treated as ...
Bank Competition: Measurement, Decision-Making, and Risk Profiles
(2015-01)
This paper investigates how competition impacts the future operating decisions and risk profile of banks. We construct a comprehensive, time-varying, bank-specific measure of a bank’s competitive environment (BCE) using ...
The Climate Change Debate: A Greater and More Varied Voice from the Social Sciences
(2011-09)
As the debate on climate change in North America and Europe has heated up, the full voice of the social sciences, for the most part, has not been heard. Indeed, the relatively small representation of academic scholarship ...
On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions: Communities and Courts
(2014-02)
We analyze the capacities of communities (or social networks) and courts to secure cooperation among heterogeneous, impersonal transactors. We find that communities and courts are complementary in that they tend to support ...
Management Communication: History, Distinctiveness, and Core Content
(2013-04)
Management communication is the study of managers’ stewardship of writing and speaking to get work done with and through people. This paper overviews the field of management communication, its history, distinctiveness from ...
The Liquidity Premium of Near-Money Assets
(2014-06)
Treasury bills and other near-money assets provide owners with liquidity service benefits that are reflected in prices in the form of a liquidity premium. I relate time variation in this liquidity premium to changes in the ...
The Culture and Discourse of Climate Skepticism
(2010-11)
Working paper abstract (100-250 words): While the scientific, technical and policy components of the climate change issue are of critical importance, climate change is also a cultural issue. More importantly, it is a highly ...