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Rural parents with urban children: social and economic implications of migration for the rural elderly in Thailand
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-05)
The present study explores the social and economic consequences of the migration of adult children to urban areas for rural parents in Thailand. Attention is given to the circumstances under which such migration takes ...
Allocation of inventive effort in complex product systems
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-06)
This paper examines the allocation of inventive effort in complex product systems. I argue that complex product systems, e.g., personal computers (PCs), are distinguished by functional interaction among several components, ...
Depiction, Perception, and Imagination: Responses to Richard Wollheim
(Blackwell Publishers Inc.Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2002)
Building firm capabilities through learning: the role of the alliance learning process in alliance capability and firm-level alliance success
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-10)
In recent years, academics and managers have been very interested in understanding how firms develop alliance capability and have greater alliance success. In this paper, we show that an alliance learning process that ...
Performance effects of imitative entry
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-08)
This article examines how waiting to imitate a product affects the performance of the imitator compared to the innovator. Specifically, we address two research questions. Under what conditions does imitation erode the ...
Mambo and The Maya
(University of Illinois Press, 2003)
The article describes an incidence of Mambo dancing in Antigua, Guatemala that was not Mambo, not Mayan and not social. In celebration of Corpus Christi, male performers dressed in Disney-style costume characters and ...
What do they know? The effects of outside director acquisition experience on firm acquisition performance
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-11)
This article contributes to the literature on board effectiveness by being perhaps the first to systematically examine how the nature of outside directors' prior experience, and resulting expertise, will influence the ...
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 ...
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 ...