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Quality ladders, growth, and R&D: an assessment from U.S. industry
(Elsevier, 1993-06)
This paper present a version of recent Schumpeterian growth models. I present a different specification of preferences, by allowing goods within industries to be subtitutes, albeit imperfect ones. I show that assuming ...
Credible enticements : Can host governments tailor multinational firms' organizations to suit national objectives?
(Elsevier, 1993-02)
This article discusses the impact of host government policy inconsistency on multinational corporations' relationships with local suppliers that benefit from public funding. Empirical findings suggest that such relationships ...
Economic incentives in software design
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-11)
I examine the incentives for software providers to design appropriate user interfaces. There are two sorts of costs involved when one uses software: the fixed cost of learning to use a piece of software and the variable ...
The separation of law and justice: Managing impressions of corporate ethics programs
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-12)
This article is based on the study of two companies that differ in their definition of thics, one with a narrower definition than the other. The one with the narrower definition invited skepticism about its commitment to ...
Dividend (Vol. 24, No. 2, Summer, 1993 )
(Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, 1993)
Efficiency and productivity growth comparisons of European and U.S. Air carriers: A first look at the data
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-06)
In this paper we carry out technical efficiency and productivity growth comparisons among the four largest European carriers and eight of their American counterparts. The time period of our comparisons is 1976 through 1986. ...