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Turnover at the Top: The Digital Transformation and Dismissal of Chairman and CEO
Companies increasingly implement digital transformation strategies to promote efficiency. Nevertheless, there are few concerns about employees’ acceptance of the changes, especially the executives’ adaptability, which is an important part of digital ...
Jipeng Qi +5 more
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This paper argues incumbent firms may acquire innovative targets solely to discontinue the target’s innovation projects and preempt future competition. We call such acquisitions “killer acquisitions.” We develop a model illustrating this phenomenon. Using pharmaceutical industry data, we show that acquired drug projects are less likely to be developed ...
Cunningham, C M, Ederer, F, Ma, S
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Industry 4.0 from An Entrepreneurial Transformation and Financing Perspective
This paper addresses the management of digital–informational transformation of industrial enterprises. Any transformation requires the coordinated action of several independent actors.
Kai Lucks
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Bootstrapping language acquisition [PDF]
The semantic bootstrapping hypothesis proposes that children acquire their native language through exposure to sentences of the language paired with structured representations of their meaning, whose component substructures can be associated with words and syntactic structures used to express these concepts. The child's task is then to learn a language-
Abend, Omri +4 more
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Constraint programming is used to model and solve complex combina- torial problems. The modeling task requires some expertise in constraint programming. This requirement is a bottleneck to the broader uptake of constraint technology. Several approaches have been proposed to assist the non-expert user in the modelling task. This paper presents the basic
Bessiere, Christian +3 more
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Lexical acquisition through acquisition order [PDF]
It is often noted in the literature that typical instances of categories denoted by lexical items are acquired earlier than atypical instances. Yet, a line of empirical studies that were left relatively unnoticed provide evidence to an additional generalization.
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Two new combination pediatric vaccines advancing to use in infantsOncolytic viruses successfully delivered intravenouslyCuba eliminates hepatitis B among minors under 15Alzheimer's vaccine trial a successStudy: Shingles vaccine safe for patients on ...
Eva M. Riedmann
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Investigating the Integration of Acquired Firms in High-technology Industries: Implications for Industrial Policy [PDF]
Acquisition activity persists despite evidence that acquisitions do not improve firm performance. Further, government policy toward the defense industry has advocated consolidation in the name of nominal cost savings.
Driessnack, John D., King, David R.
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Reports Of Conferences, Institutes, And Seminars [PDF]
This quarter\u27s column offers coverage of multiple sessions from the 2016 Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) Conference, held April 3–6, 2016, in Austin, Texas.
Blythe, K. +6 more
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Corporate Acquisitions and Firm-level Uncertainty: Domestic versus Cross-Border Deals [PDF]
This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions on the uncertainty faced by acquiring firms. We use data for UK public companies from 2004 to 2017 and employ a matching estimator combined with difference-in-differences to control for the ...
Bai, Y., Girma, S., Riaño, A.
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