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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"R & D Intensity"”.
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Accounting valuation issues on R&D
… The findings confirm the relation between R&D intensity and consistent growth in sales and gross income but only when taking the industry sector in which a firm operates into account. Moreover, the evidence found indicates a positive relation between R&D intensity and subsequent risk-adjusted …
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Multinational Firms' Ownership Structure Choices in Politically Risky Countries: An Integrative Strategic Management Approach
… when there was: (a) higher advertising intensity as a measure of higher intangible assets; and (b) lower political risk as measure by two distinct constructs. However, predictions of greater utilization of wholly-owned subsidiaries were not corroborated when there was: (a) higher R&D …
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Essays on boards of directors
… only greater innovation input as measured by R&D intensity, but also better innovation output as measured by the number of successful patents and the number of patent citations. I further find that such directors are also associated with increased firm performance. Thus, this essay sheds new light …
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Two essays in asset pricing
… data. The second essay, Operating Leverage, R&D Intensity, and Stock Returns, studies interaction effects of operating leverage and R&D intensity on stock returns. A production-based asset pricing model with knowledge capital has an implication that R&D intensive firms earn higher expected stock …
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Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection of Executive Compensation
… I examine the moderating effect of R&D intensity on the relative weights placed on signals of ability and on performance measures in executive compensation. Furthermore, I also investigate the determinants on the compensation of university presidents. I find that that more weight is …
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Is there a case for an augmented Tobin’s Q model of R&D investment? Investigating the role of market structure, knowledge spillovers and corporate governance quality
… is weaker and insignificant when the firm’s R&D intensity level is lower than the average R&D intensity in its two-digit SIC industry over the 2005-2013 period of investigation.
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Essays on Trade Credit
… with more complex products (as measured by R&D intensity) offer longer duration loans compared to suppliers of similar age. Offering riskier trade credit terms affects economic outcomes. In Chapter 3, I study if varying trade credit standards for the purpose of relationship building is a viable …
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Biosimilars: A New Look on Process Innovation and the Impact of Competitive Dynamics
… strength of the R&D pipeline, and the firm’s R&D intensity. The biosimilar construct due to the strict regulatory pathway definition provides this unique and novel opportunity to study process innovation and the impact on competitive dynamics without the interference of product innovation. This …
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Analysts' long-term growth forecasts and the post-earnings-announcement drift
… LTG forecasts such as earnings volatility, R&D intensity, and trading volume, and (2) documenting a positive association between the presence of LTG forecasts and the persistence in earnings surprises.
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In Search Of Marketing's Genie: Essays On The Impact Of Ceo And Corporate Governance Factors On Marketing Strategies
… various marketing outcomes like advertising, R&D intensity as well as CSR. Based on upper echelon theory, the essay proposes that the higher the level of confidence, the more the investment in advertising, R&D and CSR. It also predicts that high confidence can increase the chances of product harm …
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Technology commercialization, competition, and the direction of innovation
… and deleterious effect of FINSA on the R&D intensity of potential targets, particularly in sectors with a higher reliance on foreign acquirers pre-FINSA. The results are robust to multiple acquisition-likelihood cutoffs and not explained by the late-2000s finance crisis. The study provides …
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Three essays on financial economics
… I find a robust empirical relation between R&D intensity and stock returns, but only in competitive industries. This finding suggests that the risk derived from product market competition has important asset pricing implications and potentially drives a large portion of the positive R&D-return …