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Ideology on Trial: How CEO Political Leanings Shape Firms' Propensity to Litigate Over Patents

open access: yesR&D Management, Volume 56, Issue 4, Page 620-640, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how CEOs' political ideology affects corporate decisions to sue for patent infringement. Integrating upper‐echelons and behavioral‐agency perspectives, we theorize that conservative‐leaning CEOs—marked by heightened threat sensitivity and low tolerance for ambiguity—frame infringement as a looming loss and therefore ...
Ali Radfard, Luca Pistilli
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When Communication Enables Catastrophe: Nuclear Risk and the Short Lifetimes of Technological Civilizations

open access: yesRisk Analysis, Volume 46, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The Fermi paradox may partly reflect technological self‐destruction acting as a Great Filter during post‐industrial development. Because the empirical record consists of a single civilization observed over an eighty‐year nuclear age, the exercise reported here is best understood as a structured, historically anchored scenario analysis rather ...
Vincenzo Alfano
wiley   +1 more source

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