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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"corporate innovation"”.
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ESSAYS ON CORPORATE INNOVATION
This dissertation examines various aspects of corporate innovation. Specifically, it investigates how innovation information disclosure affects firms’ decisions on mergers and acquisitions and cost stickiness, as well as how gender disparity affects innovation outcomes by female inventors.The first …
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Essays on corporate innovation
… effects of aggregate stock market liquidity on innovation at both the aggregate and firm levels for publicly traded firms in the U.S., and shows a significant and positive effect at both levels of aggregation. Next, the essay provides two underlying mechanisms through which aggregate stock …
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Social collaboration for corporate innovation management
… to achieve a higher degree of effectiveness in innovation management in a corporate context. To date, the general discussion has mainly focused on certain aspects of social media, like for instance the mass-scale networking of users of different self-portrayal and interaction platforms such as …
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Essays in Corporate Finance and Corporate Innovation
… patents, and more patents for “breakthrough” innovations. After the risk of poaching by rival firms is diminished by the adoption of the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine, I find that firms with above median level of knowledge capital reduce their RFO grants by 32% relative to control firms; the …
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Corporate Innovation Subsidiaries: A Framework for Knowledge Transfer
… manufacturers have been establishing so-called corporate innovation subsidiaries in prominent innovation clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, and Beijing, since the mid- to late 1990s. This study is concerned with the transfer of knowledge from these innovation subsidiaries into their …
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Innovation Project Funding: A Framework for Rapid Evaluation of Innovation Projects for Implementation Using a System Approach
Success rates of corporate innovation are notoriously low. Improving corporate innovation success rates increases investment efficiency and enables progress toward an improved future. A literature review was completed to develop an understanding of innovation strengths and weaknesses often present …
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Integrating employees in corporate sustainability innovation
The integration of consumers in sustainability innovation processes is a promising approach to make these innovations more successfull. However, involving innovative consumers, e.g. lead users, often involves a lot of effort when they have to be identified and recruited from outside of the company. …
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Essays on boards of directors
… consists of three self-contained essays on corporate boards of directors. In the first essay, I examine the effect of overconfident CEO directors on corporate innovation and find that such directors are significantly associated with not only greater innovation input as measured by R&D …
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Innovating by Behaving: How to Adopt the Startup Culture in Large Companies
… with their attempts to build an internal startup innovation environment report challenges. These challenges are the symptoms of innovation tensions, tensions that business leaders should manage to foster a startup culture within the corporate innovation culture. This work identifies a set of …
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Intel Corporation -- Intel Labs Europe : open innovation 2.0
… must continue the evolution of its own internal corporate innovation process-one that has driven Intel's success for many years-or suffer potential negative consequences. The reality is that for almost 40 years, personal computers have remained relatively the same; all had the same open modular …
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TO SUCCEED IN SUCCESSIONS:FAMILY SUCCESSION AND FIRM BEHAVIOR IN CHINESE FAMILY FIRMS
… socioemotional wealth of the family, including corporate innovation, diversification strategies, and corporate philanthropy. Using data on Chinese publiclylisted family firms from 2008 to 2017, the above hypotheses were tested. Results largely showed support for the hypotheses. Multiple methods …
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MOTIVATIONS AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF CORPORATE FINANCIALIZATION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINESE LISTED NON-FINANCIAL COMPANIES
… the driving factors and economic consequences of corporate financialization in Chinese capital market. The results show that corporate financialization in China is influenced by motives such as preventive savings, investment substitution, shadow banking, and earnings management. The latter three …
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Corporate Actions and Outcomes Under Multifaceted Market Landscape
… specifically confidence diversity, on a firm's innovation efficacy. Together, these studies provide insights into the influence of competitive pressures spanning the labour market, organizational, and individual dimensions on corporate actions and outcomes. In the first study, I introduce a …
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Two Essays in Corporate Finance
… and market. The second chapter argues that while corporate innovation facilitates value-creation and long-term growth, patents protect the firm’s innovative findings and intellectual property rights. We suggest that legal expertise of the managers and the board provide valuable legal assistance …
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Two Essays on Corporate Governance
… academic directors significantly increase firms' innovation. Following an academic director's death and relative to a non-academic director's death, the average firm reduces the number of citation-weighted patent applications by 30.7%. The number of patent applications also increases when an …
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Three essays in corporate finance
This dissertation consists of three essays in corporate finance. There are five chapters. In the first essay, we find that local gambling preferences have economically meaningful effects on corporate innovation. Using a county's Catholics-to-Protestants ratio as a proxy for local gambling …
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Research on the Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions Transaction Size and Innovation Performance of Pharmaceuticals Industry
… expansion of China's economy, the demand for innovation and growth of China’s companies is increasing. Traditional internal research and development (R&D) and iterative product and service development are no longer sufficient to meet the fierce market competition. More and more companies are …
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Three Essays on Fiscal Stimulus, Corporate Policies, and the Local Economy
… have captured an ever-growing share of U.S. corporate profits. In parallel, payout rates have risen sharply: firms increasingly return profits to shareholders rather than retain them. Together, these two trends have produced a dramatic surge in corporate payout distributions. For example, …
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The Role of Leaders and Intrapreneurial Employees in Large Technology Corporations: A Qualitative Study
… way to foster competitive advantage is through innovation—the process of change, be it a new product, idea, or method. It can mean adapting the work environment to deliver an improved service or altering the business model. Large corporations are scalable business models by design. When a …