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- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
patents, in particular, and business method patents more generally. Because so much of the prior work in these areas has not been patented, concerns have been expressed as to the extent to which the awards reflect this knowledge. Inspired by these issues, this paper...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
but costly Olympic Games come to an end, significant maintenance and operating costs for publicly owned large Olympic venues, which were constructed or renovated for the Games, continue to burden host cities and states for a long time...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
Abstract—Scholars from many disciplines have investigated self-deception, but defining self-deception and establishing its possible benefits have been a matter of heated debate—a debate impoverished by a relative lack of empirical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
demonstrate their impact on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
features a seller with private information and costly buyer participation. The empirical context of the study is the market for original movie ideas. Consistent with the theory, I find that inexperienced writers are excluded from selling...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23
to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that require significant decision making on the part of those...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
information while also offering them incentives to avoid conflicts of interest. Findings from the existing body of conceptual and empirical research bearing on the sources and consequences of conflicts are reviewed and directions for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Teixeira Abstract—Online retail accounts for a rapidly growing proportion of revenues in many industries. While selling online broadens firms’ access to consumers, operating margins are often lower in online stores than in physical...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
and the environment will make the relevance of microprocess research findings to broader organizational questions easier to discern and therefore more likely to disseminate to the larger field of organizational research. We empirically...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
(Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the credit ratings market. Increased competition from Fitch coincides with lower-quality ratings from the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
gamification techniques to engage and motivate employees to learn. This study empirically examines the performance consequences of gamified training by conducting a field experiment in a professional services firm. We find that the main...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
phenomena such as voice, teamwork, team learning, and organizational learning. A growing body of conceptual and empirical work has focused on understanding the nature of psychological safety, identifying factors that contribute to it, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
Maarten Bos, Rick B. Van Baaren, and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:Journal of Sleep Research (forthcoming) Abstract Both scientists and artists have suggested that sleep facilitates creativity, and this idea has received substantial View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
Authors:Ryan W. Buell, Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Publication:Production and Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the impact of self-service technology (SST) usage on customer satisfaction and...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
substantially expanded social value, but also pose unusually difficult challenges because the merging entities are often strikingly different in philosophy and operating styles as well as in scale. We examine three examples—Ben and...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
Competition? By: Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—When does increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
of trade finance terms is shaped by the risk that an importer defaults on an exporter and by the possibility that an exporter does not deliver goods as specified in the contract. The empirical results indicate that cash in advance and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
of morality, ethics, and legality. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1552009 Deep Dive: What Leaders Do When Only They Can Drive Authors:Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower Abstract The actions of top management are seldom the unit of...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
perspective that Porter has taken, often as a result of his specific background and prior research interests. The chapter then turns to extensions of these core concepts in Porter's more recent work. A central focus of this work has been the creation of broad-based...
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Sean Silverthorne