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Replicating organizational knowledge: principles or templates?
Author(s): Charles Baden-Fuller, Cass Business School, Sidney Winter, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Topic: Information and Knowledge Management Industry: Any Industry Type: Research Papers

We address the challenges of providing operational measures for successful replication, and for comparing the efficacy of principles and templates.

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Updated: 10/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 211

The association of R&D and capital expenditures with subsequent earnings variability
Author(s): Gilad Livne, Cass Business School
Topic: R&D, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Industry: Any Industry Type: Research Papers

We challenge the view that while many companies engage in R&D activities, their annual reports do not show R&D related assets by benchmarking R&D expenditure to capital expenditures (CAPEX), whereby the latter are required to be reported in the balance sheet.

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Updated: 01/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 148

The compensation of non-executive directors rationale, form, and findings
Author(s): Peter Hahn and Meziane Lasfer, Cass Business School
Topic: Corporate Governance Industry: Any Industry Type: Research Papers

Corporate governance guidelines in many countries do not specify the determinants of non-executive director compensation and the empirical evidence has only briefly and indirectly addressed this issue.

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Updated: 10/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 294

Optimism and portfolio choice
Author(s): Gulnur Muradoglu, Peter Ayton, Jiayi Balasur, Cass Business School
Topic: Finance Industry: Any Industry Type: Research Papers

This study develops three heuristics to measure financial optimism: financialexpectation, a priori optimism, and a posteriori optimism. This paper finds that financial optimism has a significant positive effect on risk taking behaviour.

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Updated: 09/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 214

Dyslexic entrepreneurs: the incidence; their business skills and their coping strategies
Author(s): Julie Logan, Cass Business School
Topic: R&D, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Industry: Any Industry Type: Research Papers

This comparative study explores the incidence of dyslexia in entrepreneurs, corporate managers and the general population.

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Updated: 08/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 50

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