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Business Decisions and the Environment: Significance, Challenges, and Momentum of an Emerging Research Field
(2004)
Over the past four decades, the concept of corporate environmentalism was born and redefined through multiple iterations. Concurrent with this evolution in corporate practice has been the emergence of academic research ...
Fiduciary Constraints: Correlating Obligation With Liability
(2007-05)
State law seems to be ratcheting up the scrutiny of corporate behavior including the behavior of officers and executives. In this article we consider the issues that are likely to arise as officer conduct is scrutinized ...
Corporate elites and corporate strategy: how demographic preferences and structural position shape the scope of the firm
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004-06)
This study combines elements of the upper echelons and agency perspectives to resolve some of the ambiguity surrounding how corporate elites affect corporate strategy. We propose and test the notion that while differences ...
Inferring Market Structure from Customer Response to Competing and Complementary Products
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-08)
We consider customer influences on market structure, arguing that market structure should explain the extent to which any given set of market offerings are substitutes or complements. We describe recent additions to the ...
HR professional development: creating the future creators at the University of Michigan Business School
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999)
This article focuses on the development of mid- to senior-level HR professionals through a public program offered at the University of Michigan Business School. We suggest that developing HR professionals requires a theory ...
Financially Constrained Stock Returns
(2006-07)
More financially constrained firms are riskier and earn higher expected returns than less financially constrained firms, although this effect can be subsumed by size and book-to-market. Further, because the stochastic ...