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From Coase to culture? Visible Hands Build Equilibria
Abstract This essay proposes that the classic distinction between firms and markets in Ronald Coase's 1937 paper ‘The nature of the firm’ (Economica, vol. 4, pp. 386–405) be gracefully retired, having been duly celebrated for its field‐launching contribution to organizational economics.
Robert Gibbons
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In Memoriam: Robert K. Merton, Dorothy Nelkin, and David Edge.
At the occasion of the annual banquet of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), the President commemorated Robert K. Merton, Dorothy Nelkin, and David Edge, who all died in 2003.
Bijker, W.E., Bijker, W.E.; id_orcid
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Publication Bias in Academic Decision-Making in Clinical Psychology
Review studies suggest that results that are statistically significant or consistent with hypotheses are preferred in the publication process and in reception.
Louis Schiekiera +5 more
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Is economics self‐correcting? Replications in the American Economic Review
Abstract This paper reviews the impact of replications published as comments in the American Economic Review between 2010 and 2020. We examine their citations and influence on the original papers' (OPs) subsequent citations. Our results show that comments are barely cited, and they do not affect the OP's citations—even if the comment diagnoses ...
Jörg Ankel‐Peters +2 more
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Zur Aktualität von Robert K. Merton
Robert King Merton (1910 – 2003) gilt heute längst als Klassiker der Soziologie. Er kann als der bedeutendste Soziologe der zweiten Hälfte des 20.
Mackert, Jürgen (Prof. Dr.) +1 more
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Robert K. Merton (1910-2003). La ciencia como institución.
This article is a tribute to one of the most important thinkers of scientific activity. In it we present those elements we consider indispensable for the analysis of certified knowledge as the central concept of the relationship between the institution ...
Luis Antonio Orozco. +1 more
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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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ABSTRACT We examine how peer firms outside hurricane‐affected regions respond through management forecasts. Hurricanes weaken affected firms and create opportunities for unaffected peers, which may attract investor attention and reduce heightened uncertainty.
Xiaohui Liu +3 more
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Merton, la riflessività e la scienza sociale impossibile
This paper stresses the relevance accorded in Robert K. Merton’s sociology to self-referential circular processes, a thematic attention that gives his sociological analyses and theoretical constructs a peculiar ironic and paradoxical tone.The ...
Sandro Landucci
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Life Cycle Consumption and Portfolio Choice Under Real Interest Rate Risk
ABSTRACT We set up a life cycle model with real interest rate risk to demonstrate that real interest rates have implications for optimal household consumption and investments. Lower interest rates lead to higher optimal stock investments and lower consumption.
Marcel Fischer, Natascha Jankowski
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