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Understanding the relationship between founder-CEOs and firm performance
- Journal of Empirical Finance
, 2009
"... While previous empirical literature has examined the effect of founder-CEOs on firm per-formance, it has largely ignored the effect of firm performance on founder-CEO status. In this paper, we use instrumental variables methods to better understand the relationship be-tween founder-CEOs and performa ..."
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to the likelihood that founders retain the CEO title. This result appears to be driven primarily by founder departures after periods of good performance, rather than by an entrenchment effect that allows founders to remain as CEOs following poor performance. We provide several potential explanations for this new
Foundering on the Shores of Curriculum: The Risks and Rewards of
"... This issue of the journal offers a set of broadly interdisciplinary approaches to thinking about curriculum and educational experience. While the nature of the journal often elicits this range of work, the interdisciplinarity of this issue is particularly striking, moving as it does between history ..."
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years ago, truly interdisciplinary work changes the object, it changes the point of departure so that instead of
Firm Performance
, 2003
"... While previous empirical literature has examined the effect of founder-CEOs on Þrm performance, it has largely ignored the effect of Þrm performance on founder-CEO status. In this paper, we use instrumental variables methods to better understand the relationship between founder-CEOs and performance. ..."
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cannot be estimated correctly without accounting for the endogeneity of founder-CEO status. Perhaps surprisingly, we Þnd that performance is negatively related to the likelihood that founders retain the CEO title. This result appears to be driven primarily by founder departures after periods of good
1 The Anthropology of Money and Finance: Between Ethnography and World History
"... We review here recent developments in the anthropology of money and finance, listing its achievements, shortcomings and prospects, while referring back to the discipline‘s founders a century ago. We take our departure from the work of Marcel Mauss and Karl Polanyi, both of whom combined openness to ..."
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We review here recent developments in the anthropology of money and finance, listing its achievements, shortcomings and prospects, while referring back to the discipline‘s founders a century ago. We take our departure from the work of Marcel Mauss and Karl Polanyi, both of whom combined openness
Viable wikis: struggle for life in the wikisphere
- In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wikis, 119–124. ACM
"... Wikis are collaborative platforms enabling collective elabo-ration of knowledge, the most famous and possibly the most successful thereof being the Wikipedia. There are currently plenty of other active open-access wikis, with varying suc-cess: some recruit many users and achieve sustainability, whil ..."
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the de-mographics of a portion of the wikisphere. We underline the intertwining of population and content dynamics and empha-size the existence of different periods of development of a wiki-based community, from bootstrapping by founders with a pre-established set of rules, to more stable regimes where
COMPATIBILITY AND RELEVANCE:
"... 1. Orlov’s basic ideas on his way to relevance: compatibility and containment For a dozen years the Russian engineer and logician I. E. Orlov (1886 – not before 1936)1 has been recognized as the founder of the first precisely elab-orated modern system of relevance logic.2 On his way to this result a ..."
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1. Orlov’s basic ideas on his way to relevance: compatibility and containment For a dozen years the Russian engineer and logician I. E. Orlov (1886 – not before 1936)1 has been recognized as the founder of the first precisely elab-orated modern system of relevance logic.2 On his way to this result
original article Path-dependent Foundation of Global Design-driven Outdoor Trade in the Northwest of England
"... This article explores path dependency in the design-based outdoor clothing and equipment sector in the northwest of the United Kingdom in the 1960s. The industry developed a strong export market and remains strong internationally. The article offers several key insights that promise to transform our ..."
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region suffering from social and economic collapse. It also examines the role of users as designers and business founders. The region this article examines was a vital centre of the Industrial Revolution. The article shows that skills and knowledge originating in the Industrial Revolution have been
Reason Without Freedom
"... Gottlob Frege is now regarded as one of the world’s greatest philosophers, and the founder of modern logic. In addition to his work on the foundations of mathematics, his writing on sense and reference remains deeply influential. Departing From Frege takes Frege’s work as a point of departure, but a ..."
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Gottlob Frege is now regarded as one of the world’s greatest philosophers, and the founder of modern logic. In addition to his work on the foundations of mathematics, his writing on sense and reference remains deeply influential. Departing From Frege takes Frege’s work as a point of departure
Bureaucracy Turned Botswaucracy? How Bureaucracy Is Abused in Educational Organisations
"... Copyright © 2013 Dama Mosweunyane. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Bureaucracy is the most important concept that has ..."
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that Bureaucracy has characterised most educational entities, but most often with disturbing flaws resulting from varying applications of the concept that are not influenced by what Max Weber prescribed. The emphasis in the paper is to demonstrate that there is a strong and unrelenting departure from the original
GoodWork® Project Report Series, Number 68 The Perfect Storm: How the IPO Experience Threatens Good Work for Leaders of the Young Public Company
"... Abstract I describe the ways in which the transition to public company status creates impediments to good work in a range of companies, from the perspective of the chief executive officers (CEOs) of nine firms that have recently undertaken initial public offerings (IPOs). Specifically, I explore ho ..."
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issues shares of its stock to the public for the first time. IPOs can be undertaken for a variety of reasons: as an exit mechanism for the founder; to provide ongoing access to capital for growth; or to create the highly-prized currency of stock options as a lure to top talent. They can also be a portal
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