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Who do we invent for? Patents by women focus more on women’s health, but few women get to invent

Date: 01/06/2021 Author(s): Rembrand Koning; Sampsa Samila; John-Paul Ferguson Document type: Article in Journal (refereed) Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect what is invented. Using text analysis of all U.S. biomedical patents filed from 1976 through 2010, we found that patents with all-female inventor teams are 35% more likely than all-male teams to focus on women’s health. This effect holds over decades and across research ...

The declining share of primary data and the neglect of the individual level in international business research

Date: 01/06/2021 Author(s): Jelena Cerar; Phillip Nell; Sebastian Reiche Document type: Article in Journal (refereed) Complementing Nielsen and colleagues’ (2020) analysis of methodological trends in the Journal of International Business Studies over the past 50 years, we examine similar data on methods published in a wider range of leading international business (IB) journals. Our analysis shows a clear decline of studies based on primary data relative to secondary ...

The Business Case for CSR: A Trump Card Against Hypocrisy?

Date: 01/05/2021 Author(s): Sebastian Hafenbrädl; Daniel Waeger Document type: Article in Journal (refereed) Why do many companies use a business case frame when referring to their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities? Two experiments (N=1687) show that using a business case frame makes for a better impression management strategy than moral frames. By signaling that CSR activities are driven by instrumental reasons, and therefore not diagnostic ...

Pairwise influences in dynamic choice

Date: 01/05/2021 Author(s): Stefano Nasini; Victor Martínez de Albéniz Document type: Article in Journal (refereed) In this paper, we study the problem of network discovery and influence propagation, and propose an integrated approach for the analysis of lead-lag synchronization in multiple choices. Network models for the processes by which decisions propagate through social interaction have been studied before, but only a few consider unknown structures of interacting ...

General equilibrium oligopoly and ownership structure

Date: 01/05/2021 Author(s): José Azar; Xavier Vives Document type: Article in Journal (refereed) We develop a tractable general equilibrium framework in which firms are large and have market power with respect to both products and labor, and in which a firm’s decisions are affected by its ownership structure. We characterize the Cournot–Walras equilibrium of an economy where each firm maximizes a share-weighted average of shareholder utilities—rendering ...

The Big three and corporate carbon emissions around the world

Date: 01/05/2021 Author(s): José Azar; Miguel Duro; Igor Kadach; Gaizka Ormazábal Document type: Article in Journal (refereed) This paper examines the role of the “Big Three” (i.e., BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street Global Advisors) on the reduction of corporate carbon emissions around the world. Using novel data on engagements of the Big Three with individual firms, we find evidence that the Big Three focus their engagement effort on large firms with high CO2 emissions ...

The Role of polycentric governance technologies in digital knowledge commons

Date: 01/05/2021 Author(s): Harris Kyriakou; A. Majchrzak; J.D. Wareham Document type: Working Paper

Understanding the role of network structure in the dissemination of cryptocurrencies

Date: 01/05/2021 Author(s): Yegin Genc; Harris Kyriakou; L. Maruping Document type: Working Paper

Servant leadership and family supportiveness

Date: 01/05/2021 Author(s): Yasin Rofcanin; Mireia Las Heras; Mª José Bosch; Aykut Berber; Farooq Mughal; Mustafa Ozturk Document type: Article in Journal (refereed) How does servant leadership trickle down to impact subordinates’ work and non-work outcomes? This study sets out to investigate the mechanisms and boundary conditions associated with this question. In so doing, we integrate two sequential mechanisms (family-supportive supervisor behaviours and work engagement/self-care) and a contextual condition (servant ...

The Sub-Saharan Africa Energy Sector: An Overview

Date: 01/05/2021 Author(s): G Martí; L. Pelizan; Ahmad Rahnema Alavi Document type: Occasional Paper Access to clean and affordable energy continues to be one of the most common and pressing challenges facing the Sub-Saharan Africa region. This paper offers an overview of the current situation and the main challenges faced by the region in terms of energy development in the three main sub-sectors: electricity, cooking fuels and road transportation ...

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