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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 ...
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 ...
Identification with Models and Exogenous Data Variation
(2016-07)
We distinguish between identification and establishing causality. Identification means forming a unique mapping from features of data to quantities that are of interest to economists. Establishing causality is synonymous ...
Cost-Effectiveness of Referring Patients to Centers of Excellence for Mitral Valve Surgery
(2015-05)
BACKGROUND
The 2014 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Valvular Heart Disease Guidelines state that mitral valve diseases should be repaired at a Center of Excellence (CoE). We evaluate the ...
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, ...
Climate Change as a Cultural and Behavioral Issue: Addressing Barriers and Implementing Solutions
(2010-07)
At the core, environmental issues like climate change are not primarily technological or economic, but behavioral and cultural. While technological and economic activity may be the direct cause of environmentally destructive ...
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 ...