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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Microfoundations"”.
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Evolving dynamic capabilities : microfoundations in digital servitisation
This study explored the microfoundations of dynamic capabilities, focusing on their role in transitioning from servitisation to digital servitisation in five South African sectors: Financial Services, Telecommunications, Professional Services, Technology Enablement Services and Manufacturing. Using …
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Dynamic states and spinning plates: Microfoundations of balancing tensions
The concept of balance holds a prominent position in theories about tensions (Schad, Lewis, Raisch, & Smith, 2016). Tensions are situations involving ‘stress, anxiety, discomfort, or tightness in making choices and moving forward’ (Putnam, Fairhurst, & Banghart, 2016, p. 68). Through balance …
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Essays on the Microfoundations of Asset Liquidity and Resale Premia
Chapter 1 of the thesis reviews and synthesises the literature on the role of money and assets in models with trading frictions. The main focus of the chapter is on how liquidity and resale premia shape asset prices and monetary transmission. In frictionless Walrasian settings, neither money nor …
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Essays on the Microfoundations of Asset Liquidity and Resale Premia
Chapter 1 of the thesis reviews and synthesises the literature on the role of money and assets in models with trading frictions. The main focus of the chapter is on how liquidity and resale premia shape asset prices and monetary transmission. In frictionless Walrasian settings, neither money nor …
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Microfoundations of Strategy: Enriching the Psychological Underpinnings of Upper Echelons
… of three related essays that contribute to the microfoundations of strategy and the upper echelons perspective in particular. The first essay (Chapter 2) unpacks the psychological mechanism through which top management team (TMT) gender diversity lends strategic advantages to firms. The findings …
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AUTOMATION AND NATIONALISM: THE MICROFOUNDATIONS OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS POLITICAL REALIGNMENT?
This dissertation provides a microfoundational analysis of automation’s political consequences, particularly focusing on mid-skill routine workers exposed to technological replaceability. Extant literature shows that this group of workers has become a core constituency of the radical right parties, …
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Microfoundations Approach to Risk and Uncertainty in the Uppsala Internationalization Process
… calls in International Business to employ a microfoundations approach for greater insight on differences in managerial cognition for entering business in high-risk locations. Consequently, findings challenge the Uppsala model’s longstanding stance concerning the risk-internationalization …
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Digitalisation and Business Model Innovation: Exploring the Microfoundations of Dynamic Consistency
… consistency. This thesis operationalises the microfoundations of dynamic consistency in an I4.0-driven BMI by empirically investigating six European manufacturing firms. Following the design themes of BMI, it argues that the notion of dynamic consistency comprises three main aspects: (1) a …
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Sources of differential relative price variability: An examination of the microfoundations of inflation
The central issue dividing neoclassical and Keynesian economists is how markets react to perturbations to longrun equilibria. The standard resolution of this controversy is that neoclassical responses are appropriate to competitive markets, while Keynesian responses better describe oligopolistic …
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Cognitive Microfoundations of Industry Foresight and Strategic Investments: Evidence Within the Global Automotive Industry
… light on the micro- and macro-level cognitive microfoundations of navigating industry change and offers important contributions to theory, methodology, and practice.
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Understanding the Microfoundations of Environmental Improvement in SMEs: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan’s Leather Industry
… of cleaner production centres serve as key microfoundations to these capabilities. More specifically, due to the absence of effective formal institutional support, cleaner production centres have acted as the (informal) compensatory institutional structures and proto-institutional sponsors …
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Synthesising Synergies between Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Human Rights for Corporate Accountability: Microfoundations for an Integrated Approach
Although an emerging literature considers CSR as obligatory, the effect of voluntarism has dominated the scholarship and policymaking related to CSR leading to a significant corporate accountability gap. Almost parallel to this literature, the field of Law has conceived and advanced the concept of …
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The microfoundations of institutional theory and discourse of professionalism: The case of physicians, medical scribes, and electronic health records
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Essays on Endogenously Incomplete Markets
… are endogenously incomplete. Chapter 2 provides microfoundations for two types of widely used incomplete market models while chapter 3 studies the role for policy in endogenously incomplete models. Chapter 4 examines the existence of multiplicity in such models and shows how this can provide an …
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GENESIS AND CONCEPTUALIZATION OF COOPETITION STRATEGY
… as management innovation. We asked: what are the microfoundations of coopetition? In what ways is coopetition considered a management innovation? Is it possible to identify generally applicable criteria to recognize coopetition concept? And, finally, is coopetition a new way of looking at …
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Essays on Individual Judgment, Stakeholders and Firm Performance: Microfinance, Firm Reputation and Industry Competition
… dissertation aims to highlight and expand the microfoundations of strategic management literature.
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The monetary theory of production of John Maynard Keynes: Toward a unification of money and value theory
… placed on money within the framework of the microfoundations of an entrepreneurial economy. Both the short and long-run entrepreneurial decisions are examined highlighting the special role that expected and actual profits play as a signalling mechanism in a monetary-market economy. The final …
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The Politics of Constitutional Review: Evidence from the European Court of Justice
… a normative good. In this work, I consider the microfoundations of judicial preferences and how those preferences interact with institutional independence to determine the policy impact of judicial review. The following argument is developed in the context of the Court of Justice of the European …
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The political economy of environmental technological change with a case study of the power sector in Vietnam
… it is a direct consequence of evolutionary microfoundations that technological change, and particularly that linked with structural change in an economy, is likely to have important political economy implications. Secondly, we show how heterodox approaches to understanding structural change …
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Essays on Money, Trade and the Labour Market
… essay incorporates a distortionary tax into the microfoundations of money framework and revisits the optimum quantity of money. An optimal policy may consist of both a positive tax rate and a positive nominal interest rate: if the buyer's surplus share is inefficiently small, the intensive margin …
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