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Applying the Theory of the Firm to Examine a Technology Startup at the Investment Stage [PDF]

open access: yesTechnology Innovation Management Review, 2012
The investment stage of a new technology firm is when resources, opportunities, investors, and early customers first converge. Currently, technology entrepreneurs make many expensive mistakes.
Michael Ayukawa
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Entrepreneurial Effort in the Theory of the Firm [PDF]

open access: yesTechnology Innovation Management Review, 2012
This article develops a link between the theory of the firm and entrepreneurship theory to enable the study of employee entrepreneurial behaviour. First, we describe how incomplete contracts permit employee entrepreneurial effort in the theory of the ...
David Hudson
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Competition as an evolutionary process

open access: yesErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2014
Mark Blaug and I agree that if there is a realist interpretation of economic behavior to be discerned in Friedman (1953), it is to be found not in Friedman's belief that the profit motive overrides other possible motives, but in his belief that a ...
Jack J. Vromen
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Praxeology and the firm: a contribution to the Austrian redefinition of the economic organization problem [PDF]

open access: yesEkonomski Anali, 2006
The aim of this paper is to syntetize theory of entrepreneurship of the Austrian School of economics with the contractual theory of the firm. Transaction cost theory of Ronald Coase and his followers holds that the firm is the organization with dominant ...
Janković Ivan
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The demand‐boost theory of exclusive dealing

open access: yesThe Rand Journal of Economics, 2020
This paper unifies various approaches to the analysis of exclusive dealing that so far have been regarded as distinct. The common element of these approaches is that firms depart from efficient pricing,raising marginal prices above marginal costs.
G. Calzolari   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The history of transaction cost economics and its recent developments

open access: yesErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2009
The emergence of transaction cost economics (TCE) in the early 1970s with Oliver Williamson's successful reconciliation of the so-called neoclassical approach with Herbert Simon's organizational theory can be considered an important part of the first ...
Lukasz Hardt
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CEO duality and firm performance during the 2020 coronavirus outbreak

open access: yesThe Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 2022
Stewardship theory suggests that CEO duality can provide strong leadership and facilitate the development and coordination of firm strategy. These benefits should affect firm risk and financial performance, particularly when the firm has high information-
M. Hassan   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Objectives of the Airline Firm: Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 1972
Theoretical models are formulated for airline firm operations that revolve around alternative formulations of managerial goals which these firms are persuing in practice. Consideration is given to the different objective functions which the companies are
Kneafsey, J. T.
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Together forever? Explaining exclusivity in party-firm relations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Parties and firms are the key actors of representative democracy and capitalism respectively and the dynamic of attachment between them is a central feature of any political economy. This is the first article to systematically analyse the exclusivity of
Balicki R.   +57 more
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The relationship between human capital and firm value: Evidence from Indian firms

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether human capital affects firm value by following a positive methodological approach. According to the classical theory of economic growth, the output of a country depends on its human and physical capital.
Garima Sisodia   +2 more
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