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作者：TYLER, BB; STEENSMA, HK
摘要：Academic scholars, practitioners, and the public press have reported a number of factors believed to be relevant to decisions regarding technological collaboration. However, little is known about how executives actually weigh and integrate the available information during the evaluation process. This exploratory study uses policy capturing to examine managerial and economic information top executives consider when evaluating scenarios representative of cooperative technology development opport...
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作者：BOYD, BK
摘要：Several studies have addressed the CEO duality-performance relationship, with inconsistent results. This paper proposes that these inconsistencies can be resolved by integrating agency and stewardship perspectives on duality. Using data from 192 firms in 12 industries, both the direction and magnitude of the duality-performance relationship was found to vary systematically across Dess and Beard's (1984) environmental dimensions. These results provide partial support for both agency and steward...
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作者：NAYYAR, PR
摘要：Stock market reactions to a sample of customer service changes reported during 1981-91 were investigated. Customer service increases (decreases) were positively (negatively) valued. Stock market reactions varied depending on specific customer service actions and, therefore, on the four customer service objectives pursued.
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作者：BERGH, DD
摘要：This study tests the effects of ownership concentration, outside director equity holdings, and corporate strategy on, and the performance implications of, the size and relatedness of units sold by parent firms. The study is based on a model that integrates agency and resource-based theories, and a sample of sell-offs by 112 Fortune 500 firms. Ownership concentration is found to be associated positively with the sale of unrelated and small units. This relationship is strengthened when outside d...
