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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 ...
Human Rights and a Corporation's Duty to Combat Corruption
(2013-10)
Increasingly, there is awareness that corruption and human rights are intimately connected. However, the debates and reform proposals on improving corporations’ social performance in these two areas are often treated as ...
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT IN AFRICA: NEW EVIDENCE AND POLICIES FROM SWAZILAND
(2013-06-01)
Drawing on the 2007 and 2010 Swaziland Labor Force Surveys, this paper provides first systematic evidence on recent youth employment challenges in Swaziland, a small, land-locked, middle-income country with one of the ...
Exceptional boards: Environmental experience and positive deviance from institutional norms
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-02)
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics.
(2013)
My dissertation, Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics, provides an inter-disciplinary look at topics involving choice and welfare in economics.
In my first chapter, Growing Up in a Steel Town: Early-Life Exposure and ...
Where is the Hospitality in Your Library? (MAIUG Meeting 2013)
(2013-10-18)
In the library and information fields, we spend countless hours focusing on making our world a more self-service environment. While many patrons much prefer to work independently and easily find resources on their own, we ...
The Efficiency and Equity of the Tax and Transfer System in France
(2013-04-01)
Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size of the flows involved. But the system is complex overall. Its effectiveness could be enhanced in many ...
Price Jump Indicators: Stock Market Empirics During the Crisis
(2013-06-01)
We analyze the behavior and performance of multiple price jump indicators across markets and over time. By using highfrequency stock market data we identify clusters of price jump indicators that share similar properties ...