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The Effects of State Innovation Programs on Entrepreneurial Firms: Three Essays.
(2013)
My dissertation provides new evidence regarding the effects of state innovation programs on the performance and behavior of entrepreneurial firms in the Great Lakes region. Specifically, I assemble novel databases and use ...
Differentiating cognitive and affective job insecurity: Antecedents and outcomes
(SPSSWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2012-08)
Entry into new market segments in mature industries: endogenous and exogenous segmentation in the U.S. brewing industry
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1998-04)
I evaluate two processes, niche formation and resource-partitioning, that could independently account for the entry of firms into new market segments in mature industries. The niche formation argument focuses on environmental ...
Managerial foresight and attempted rent appropriation: insider trading on knowledge of imminent breakthroughs
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005-09)
In order to establish a competitive advantage, firms must acquire or create resources at a price below their value in use. Absent pure luck, this requires managers to exercise foresight about a resource's future value ...
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 ...
Uncertainty in the transaction environment: an empirical test
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1998-01)
Previous studies examining the relationship between uncertainty and vertical integration have produced a conflicting set of results. To clarify this puzzle we drew on the literature to conceptualize three distinct forms ...
Higher knowledge for higher aspirations
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005)
With escalating expectations and opportunities for HR professionals to add greater value comes the mandate for greater knowledge about the fundamental driving forces of business. Business leaders and employees increasingly ...
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 ...
A sensemaking lens on reliability The first three authors contributed equally and listed alphabetically.
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006-11)
This study assessed the applicability of current theories of reliability in dynamic settings by exploring the sensemaking processes experienced by a sample of medical residents around lapses in reliability of patient care. ...