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With greater power comes greater responsibility? takeover protection and corporate attention to stakeholders
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-03)
Using takeover protection as an indicator of corporate governance, this study examines how an exogenous shift in power from shareholders to managers affects corporate attention to non-shareholding stakeholders. Two competing ...
Doing well by doing good—case study: ‘Fair & Lovely’ whitening cream
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-12)
According to the ‘doing well by doing good’ proposition, firms have a corporate social responsibility to achieve some larger social goals, and can do so without a financial sacrifice. This research note empirically examines ...
Does complexity deter customer‐focus?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2012-02)
Economic models suggest that firms use a simple cost‐benefit calculation to evaluate customer requests for new product features, but an extensive organizational literature shows the decision to implement innovation is more ...
Strategic alliances and interfirm knowledge transfer
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1996-12)
This paper examines interfirm knowledge transfers within strategic alliances. Using a new measure of changes in alliance partners' technological capabilities, based on the citation patterns of their patent portfolios, we ...
Are network effects really all about size? The role of structure and conduct
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013-03)
Rooted in neoclassical economics, network effects research has revolved around size, arguing that the more users a network has, the more valuable that network will be to each user. I argue that a network's structure ...
Structural homophily or social asymmetry? The formation of alliances by poorly embedded firms
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-09)
Recent research shows that preexisting network structure constrains the formation of new interorganizational alliances. Firms that are poorly embedded in a network structure are less likely than richly embedded firms to ...
Reputations for toughness in patent enforcement: implications for knowledge spillovers via inventor mobility
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-12)
‘Job hopping’ by engineers and scientists is widely heralded as an important channel for knowledge spillovers within industries. Far less is known, however, about the actions firms take to reduce the outward flow of knowledge ...