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Cultural clashes in a “merger of equals”: The case of high‐tech start‐ups
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2011-09)
Mergers of equals are often considered simply symbolic. Whereas existing literature on the topic views equality as underscoring the importance of distributive justice, power, or identity, the role of culture remains ...
The impact of breastfeeding patterns on regional differences in infant mortality in Germany, 1910
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1988-05)
This paper examines the impact of breastfeeding practices on the large regional differences in infant mortality in Germany around 1910. Breastfeeding is strongly negatively associated with infant mortality and remains so ...
Evolutionary diffusion: internal and external methods used to acquire encompassing, complementary, and incremental technological changes in the lithotripsy industry
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1998-11)
This study links theories concerning methods that firms use to acquire technology with theories concerning types of technological change. We place particular emphasis on interorganizational relationships. We predict that ...
Where do capabilities come from and how do they matter? A study in the software services industry
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005-01)
Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in the notion of capabilities as an important source of competitive advantage. This recognition has, in turn, placed emphasis on the question of where and how these capabilities ...
Female labour force participation, fertility and public policy in Sweden
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-09)
This paper analyzes the role of public policy for Sweden's combination of high female labour force participation and high levels of fertility in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We present the central elements in the tax ...
Opportunity costs and non-scale free capabilities: profit maximization, corporate scope, and profit margins
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-07)
The resource-based view on firm diversification, subsequent to Penrose ( 1959 ), has focused primarily on the fungibility of resources across domains. We make a clear analytical distinction between scale free capabilities ...
Robust Adaptive Metrics for Deadline Assignment in Distributed Hard Real-Time Systems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-11)
Distributed real-time applications usually consist of several component tasks and must be completed by its end-to-end (E-T-E) deadline. As long as the E-T-E deadline of an application is met, the strategy used for dividing ...
The potential impact of improvements in contraception on fertility and abortion in western countries
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1987-11)
Survey information on fertility intentions, patterns of contraceptive use, contraceptive failures and abortions is used to develop estimates of unwanted births and of unplanned pregnancies for seven countries, by method ...
From Partners to Players: Extending the HR Playing Field
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001)
HR professionals must always be “becoming” or constantly changing and adapting. For the lastdecade, many have argued the business partner role as a complement to traditional HR administrative work. Weargue in this paper ...