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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"US firms"”.
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The Role of Foreign Patents in US Firms’ Patent Portfolios
… (patents issued in countries outside of the US) in US firms’ patent portfolios. Foreign patents are substantial and prevalent for US firms. Foreign patents form about 39% of the average patent portfolio of US firms. Firms with foreign patent applications are financially stable, and these …
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The political and economic influences on the Mexican Industrialization Program
The Mexican Industrialization Program (MIP) began as a solution to unemployment in the Mexican border region and to the loss of competitiveness of US firms vis-á-vis import competition. US and Mexican tariff exemptions facilitated the relocation of labor-intensive assembly operations from the US to …
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The impact of environmental accountability on firm corporate lobbying behaviour: an empirical investigation of US listed firms
… an understanding into the behaviour of firms in relation to the environment contextualized within the political arena of the US. By employing a quantitative research approach, the thesis consists of three empirical studies (covering firm level data between 2010 to 2020) based on four …
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Alliance behaviour, absorptive capacity and competitive advantage: a comparative study of biopharmaceutical firms in Europe and the US
… capacity and alliances, and their influence on firms’ competitive advantage in the US and European biopharmaceutical sectors. The study undertaken in this thesis is based on data from a large-scale international survey of over 2,500 biopharmaceutical firms in the US, the UK, Germany, France and …
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Understanding the External Firm Factors Impacting Innovation in the Hardwood Veneer Industry
Innovation research in the wood products industry has historically focused on factors that the firm can influence or control, as opposed to factors external to the firm. The purpose of this research is to understand how the external factors of the firm (i.e., social, technological, economic, …
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Factors that affect the electronic distribution channel structure
… conditions of Internet's expansion and extensive use of information technology, many companies reconsider the way they are doing business. When designing electronic distribution channels, managers have to decide to what extent should the distribution function be performed within the boundaries of …
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Women, innovation, entrepreneurship : essays on designing and improving education
… or led only 11% of venture capital backed US firms. Moreover, women-led firms have received only 7% of venture capital.[2] Clearly, there is a serious dearth of women in entrepreneurship. Research has shown that education can have an impact on gender segregation of aspirations, and that it …
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Silence is Golden? Evidence from Social Disclosure Gap
… channels, such as SEC filings, stand- alone sustainability reports, or financial reports and available through external channels, such as business news. Based on analytical models that suggest that investors price social disclosure, as part of their firms’ risk assessment, I analyze whether …
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Essays on the economics of innovation
… R&D in a setting with cumulative innovation, using a panel of US firms and a network of corporate patent citations. I show that the positive effect of dynamic spillovers on other firms' productivity is economically important, and at least as large as that of own R&D investments. Accounting for …
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Two Essays on Corporate Finance
… document the relevance of such asymmetries for firms' payout, liquidity, and capital structure policies. Policies are more sensitive to downside volatility and the directional effect of upside variation is often opposite that of downside. Controlling for cash flow volatility,policies …
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New Sheriff in Town: Antecedents and Consequences of Effective Lead Independent Directors
… This role was adopted in 2003 by most large US firms as a result of stock exchange mandates and pressure from institutional investors. From an agency theory perspective, this new form of leadership structure was designed to give additional control to independent directors, thus enhancing the …
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Exploring the Relationship between Environmental Operations and Supply Chain Practices, Complementary Assets, and Performance
… system or ISO 14001 in 1994. Today because of the issues and concerns over the depletion of natural resources, global warming, water pollutants and hazardous waste; the environmental focus has now become more valuable and significant to researchers. This dissertation is focused on …
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Identification of relevant predictors of loan default using the Elastic Net model
… Elastic Net model. The study employs a sample of US firms with 162 loan default events in total between 1998 and 2013. The sample is sub-divided to form a Test sample and two holdout samples: one drawn from the same period as the Test sample; and one drawn from a subsequent period. The sample of …
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Confronting the Black Swan: A Case Study of Corporate Learning
… two-fold. First, it explores corporate learning using the theory of organizational knowledge creation and one US based corporation to determine the theory's relevance to American firms. Second, it seeks to understand how social practices and leadership behaviors affect employee knowledge or "true …
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Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance
… capital and finance allocation efficiency. I focus on operating leases, which account for a significant proportion of the overall productive physical assets used by US firms (from the asset side), and are important external financing sources for firms (from the liability side). However, they were …
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Accruals quality, stock returns seasonality and the cost of equity capital
… of capital. The final chapter presents my conclusions. Essay 1 examines whether previously documented associations between accruals quality (AQ) and the cost of equity capital for US firms are driven singularly by returns in the month of January, consistent with a tax-loss selling effect …
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Accruals quality, stock returns seasonality and the cost of equity capital
… of capital. The final chapter presents my conclusions. Essay 1 examines whether previously documented associations between accruals quality (AQ) and the cost of equity capital for US firms are driven singularly by returns in the month of January, consistent with a tax-loss selling effect …
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INCOME SHIFTING AMONG OPTION INTENSIVE FIRMS IN THE 1990'S
… that is transferred through taxation to the various sovereign nations within which it does business. The profit maximizing firm attempts to maximize (minimize) taxable income in those jurisdictions where income tax burdens are the least (most) in such a way as to diminish the present value of its …
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Three studies on managers' disclosure decisions
… prescriptions in the United States, with the abuse of these drugs reaching crisis levels. I examine the effect of local opioid abuse, proxied by the opioid prescription rate in the county in which a firm's headquarters is located, on the quality of management earnings forecasts. I find that …
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