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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 ...
Three Essays on the Effectiveness of Voluntary Forest Certification.
(2015)
In Central Africa, finite contracts, weak local forest law, and poor monitoring erode incentives for firms to manage forests responsibly. In response, voluntary, independent certification of forest management practices ...
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 ...
Five keys to flourishing in trying times
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010)
Kim Cameron reports on two decades of empirical research on organizations that have faced difficult economic situations but achieved unexpected and exceptional levels of success. Examining these organizations, Cameron has ...
Long‐Term Health Spending Persistence among the Privately Insured in the US
(Harvard UniversityWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2016-09)
There is little current information regarding the long‐term persistence of health spending in the United States, in particular among the population aged under 65 (pre‐Medicare eligibility). We describe and model the extent ...
Online Education in Community Colleges: Access, School Success, and Labor-Market Outcomes
(2014)
Chapter 1 provides the first evidence on the effect of online education on labor-market outcomes. I employ an individual-fixed-effects estimation strategy using data on over 100,000 community-college enrollees and show ...
Information Systems, Alliance Portfolios, and Firm Performance: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis.
(2013)
A longstanding body of information systems (IS) research has been devoted to identifying the role of information technology (IT) in enhancing organizational performance. As interorganizational relationships have become an ...
Optimal Resource Rent
(2013-03-01)
This paper develops the first systematic attempt to model and empirically estimate the concept of optimal resource renting. Optimal rent is found to be positively affected by increases in the recession buffer and resource ...
Catching-up and inflation in Europe: Balassa-Samuelson, Engel’s Law and other Culprits
(2010-06-01)
This study analyses the impact of economic catching-up on annual inflation rates in the European Union with a special focus on the new member countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Using an array of estimation methods, ...
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 ...