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Investment Options and the Business Cycle [PDF]

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A firm has investment options that it may use up immediately, or store for future use. A patent, e.g., is an option to implement an idea via a product or process innovation. Other investment options are protected by secrecy.
Boyan Jovanovic
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Start(up) with purpose: How goal‐ and duty‐based purpose drive work engagement and performance in startups

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although organizational purpose (OP) has recently gained attention in entrepreneurship research, its motivational potential in startups remains underexplored, limiting the development of effective purpose‐driven strategies to enhance employee work engagement (WE) and startup performance.
Julien A. Nussbaum   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Should Firms Avoid Relying on Key Employees? Evidence From Inventors

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Analysing inventor careers in U.S. public firms, we find that higher inventor‐base concentration enhances corporate innovation productivity in subsequent years, a relationship that remains consistent across various model specifications. Concentration improves the retention of individual inventors and teams, supporting the employee retention ...
Jin Wang
wiley   +1 more source

The role of fundamental Q and financing frictions in agricultural investment decisions: an analysis pre and post financial crisis [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper uses a fundamental Q model of investment to consider the role played by financing frictions in agricultural investment decisions, controlling econometrically for censoring, heterogeneity and errors-in-variables.
Carol Newman   +2 more
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Stock Market Response to Private Corruption: The Moderation Role of Public Perceptions

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how corporate corruption events affect stock returns among European firms, focusing on the moderating role of public sector corruption perceptions measured by the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Using over 25,000 firm‐level events from 2007 to 2022, the study finds that corruption events lead to negative abnormal ...
Marta Alonso   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is There an Industry Effect of SPAC Merger Announcements?

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether SPAC merger announcements affect the target firms' industry rivals. Using a sample of 468 SPAC mergers from 2016 to 2023, the results indicate that rival firms experience significant negative abnormal returns, especially around smaller and riskier deals that yield lower announcement returns for SPACs. Additional
Carene Boucher
wiley   +1 more source

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